 Limited attention, managerial multitasking, and hedge fund performance in ChinaLu Li, Yang Li, Xueding Wang and Yuqian He Pacific-Basin Finance Journal, 2021, vol. 67, issue C Abstract: Using a database of hedge funds in China, this paper examines the impact of limited attention by analysing the performance of hedge fund managers who are distracted by managing multiple funds simultaneously, or managerial multitasking. We perform an empirical analysis on a sample of 1031 hedge fund managers in China over the period from April 2010 to December 2017. We find that managers who multitask have lower returns, lower alpha, and lower overall performance. We investigate the impact of the switch from single-tasking to multitasking on the fund performance and our results support the attention distraction hypothesis, but not in favor of the effort diversion or synergy creation hypothesis. Moreover, we find that the practice of multitasking has a negative impact on fund performance during a bull market. Further, we find that multitasking managers have lower performance if they use multiple strategies in fund activities or serve on the management team at fund companies. Keywords: Limited attention; Managerial multitasking; China hedge fund performance; Hedge fund managers (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:pacfin:v:67:y:2021:i:c:s0927538x21000755 DOI: 10.1016/j.pacfin.2021.101568 Access Statistics for this article Pacific-Basin Finance Journal is currently edited by K. Chan and S. Ghon Rhee More articles in Pacific-Basin Finance Journal from Elsevier |
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