Resumen de Do Fund Flow-Return Relations Depend on the Type of Investor?: A Research Note
Jacquelyn E. Humphrey, Karen Benson, Timothy J. Brailsford
This study investigates whether the relation between aggregate fund flow and market returns differs between retail and institutional funds. For the retail fund sample, we document a contemporaneous relation between flow and market returns and also find evidence of feedback trading. In contrast, there is little evidence of a relation between flow and market returns for the institutional fund sample. Consequently, it appears that retail and institutional fund investors use different investment strategies, with retail investors following a more naive strategy. We find no evidence of flow inducing price pressure for either type of fund.
