Offsetting the Incentives: Risk Shifting and Benefits of Benchmarking in Money Management

Money managers are rewarded for increasing the value of assets under management, and predominantly so in the mutual fund industry. This gives the manager an implicit incentive to exploit the well-documented positive fund-flows to relati...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Basak, Suleyman, Pavlova, Anna, Shapiro, Alex
Format: Working Paper
Language:en_US
Published: 2003
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/3514