Investor flows and stock market returns

Brian Boyer and Lu Zheng

Journal of Empirical Finance, 2009, vol. 16, issue 1, pages 87-100

Abstract: This study simultaneously analyzes the relation between aggregate stock market returns and cash flows (net purchases of equity) from a broad array of investor groups in the United States over a long period of time from 1952 to 2004. We find strong evidence that quarterly flows are autocorrelated for each of the different investor groups. We further document a significant and positive contemporaneous relation between stock market returns and flows of Mutual Funds and Foreign Investors.

Keywords: Investor; flows; Stock; market; Equity; return; Foreign; investors; Mutual; funds; Institutional; investors (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009

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