Are All Professional Investors Sophisticated?

Lukas Menkhoff, Schmeling Maik and Schmidt Ulrich
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Schmeling Maik: Leibniz Universität Hannover,Hannover, Germany
Schmidt Ulrich: University of Kiel, Christian-Albrechts-Platz 4,Kiel, Germany

German Economic Review, 2010, vol. 11, issue 4, 418-440

Abstract: Existing empirical evidence is inconclusive as to whether professional investors show more sophisticated behavior than individual investors. Therefore, we study two important groups of professional investors and compare them with laymen by means of a survey covering about 500 investors.We find that some professionals, i.e. institutional investors, behave in a more sophisticated manner than laymen, whereas the less researched investment advisors seem to do even worse. Our survey approach complements available evidence due to its design: it compares professionals with (qualified) interested laymen, it covers six measures of sophisticated behavior, uses several control variables and strictly compares investment decisions in the private domain.

Keywords: Institutional investors; investment advisors; individual investors; investment behavior (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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