Value Creation in the Hedge Fund Industry

David Ardia¹, Laurent Barras²

1: HEC Montréal, Canada; 2: University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg

Discussant: Cristian Tiu (University at Buffalo)

Learning about Managerial Skill and Fund Scale from Mutual Fund Analysts

Felix Wilke

Nova School of Business and Economics, Portugal

Discussant: Konark Saxena (ESCP)

The Economics of Greenwashing Funds

Sean Cao¹, Yong Chen², Han Xiao³, Alan Zhang⁴

1: University of Maryland; 2: Texas A&M University; 3: CUHK, Shenzhen; 4: Iowa State University

Discussant: Hélène Mathurin (NEOMA Business School)

Do investors care about sustainable investment targets? An assessment using the Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation

Christian Mücke¹, Nikolai Badenhoop²

1: ESCP Business School, Spain; 2: Leibniz Institute for Financial Research SAFE, Germany

Discussant: Daniel Schmidt (HEC Paris)

Will AI Replace or Enhance Human Intelligence in Asset Management?

Hugh Kim¹, Vikram Nanda²

1: Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada; 2: University of Texas at Dallas, USA

Discussant: Fabrice Riva (Université Paris Dauphine - PSL)

The Growth and Performance of Artificial Intelligence in Asset Management

Shuang Chen¹, Clemens Sialm², David Xu³

1: University of Melbourne; 2: University of Texas at Austin; 3: Southern Methodist University

Discussant: Charles-Albert Lehalle (CMAP, Ecole Polytechnique)

Can US Equity Funds Time ESG Score Updates?

Anouck Faverjon¹, Serge Darolles², Marie Lambert³

1: HEC Liège, Université de Liège / Université Paris Dauphine-PSL, Belgium; 2: Université Paris Dauphine-PSL; 3: HEC Liège, Université de Liège

Discussant: Adam Reed (UNC)

Economics of Trading: Why Industrial Firms, Pension Funds, and Mutual Funds do Not Trade More Actively?

Antti Belt², Antti Kaskela², Matti Suominen¹

1: Aalto University School of Business, Finland; 2: Boston Consulting Group

Discussant: Elias Ohneberg (ESCP Business School)

Babies, Quitters, and Experienced Returns: The Behavioral Benefit of Target Date Funds

Nick Bollen, Eric VanEpps

Vanderbilt University, United States of America

Discussant: Paul Karehnke (ESCP Business School, Paris)

Contract Evaluation Horizon and Fund Performance

Jung Hoon Lee¹, Jayoung Nam³, Veronika Pool², Feng Zhanag³

1: Office of Financial Research (OFR), US Treasury, United States of America; 2: Vanderbilt University; 3: Southern Methodist University

Discussant: Vincent Tena (Université Paris Dauphine-PSL)

Race, Gender, and Careers in Asset Management: Evidence from U.S. Administrative Data

John Bai¹, Linlin Ma², Kevin Mullally³, Aisulu Munkina⁴, Yuehua Tang⁴

1: Northeastern University; 2: Peking University HSBC Business School; 3: University of Central Florida; 4: University of Florida

Discussant: Edith Ginglinger (Université Paris Dauphine-PSL)

Have diversity effects failed in the asset management? Evidence from the Hedge Fund Industry

Juha Joenväärä¹, Greg Brown², Christian Lundblad², Mikko Kauppila¹

1: Aalto University, Finland; 2: University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Discussant: Catherine Casamatta (Toulouse School of Economics)

Partisan Hedge Funds

Zilin Chen¹, Dashan Huang², Lin Sun³, Melvyn Teo²

1: Southwestern University of Finance and Economics; 2: Singapore Management University; 3: Fudan University

Discussant: Juha Joenväärä (Aalto University)

Credit Supply and Hedge Fund Performance: Evidence from Prime Broker Surveys

Lubomir Petrasek, Phillip Monin, Dan Li

Federal Reserve Board of Governors, United States of America

Discussant: René Garcia (Université de Montréal)

Tilting at Windmills: Biased Benchmarks and the Risk-Taking Response of Mutual Funds

Richard Evans¹, Hugh Kim², Thomas Maurer³

1: University of Virginia, USA; 2: Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada; 3: University of Hong Kong, China