Equity Return Expectations and Portfolios: Evidence from Large Asset Managers

Magnus Dahlquist and Markus Ibert

The Review of Financial Studies, 2024, vol. 37, issue 6, 1887-1928

Abstract: Collecting large asset managers’ capital market assumptions, we revisit the relationships between subjective equity premium expectations, equity valuations, and financial portfolios. In contrast to the well-documented extrapolative expectations of retail investors, asset managers’ equity premium expectations are countercyclical: they are high (low) when valuations are low (high). We find that asset managers’ portfolios reflect their heterogeneous expectations: allocation funds of asset managers with larger U.S. equity premium expectations invest significantly more in U.S. equities. The sensitivity of portfolios to expectations seems to be muted by investment mandates and is smaller than the one predicted by a standard portfolio choice model.

JEL-codes: G00 G12 G23 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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