The Investment Technology of Foreign and Domestic Institutional Investors in an Emerging Market

April 22, 2013

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Ila Patnaik, and Ajay Shah. The Investment Technology of Foreign and Domestic Institutional Investors in an Emerging Market, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2013) accessed December 22, 2024

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Summary

The literature on the investment technology of foreign versus domestic investors has inconclusive results. This paper revisits the question, with a focus on decomposing portfolio performance into asset allocation and security selection. We document signicant differences in exposure to systematic asset pricing factors between foreign and domestic investors. A quasi-experimental strategy is introduced, for comparing security selection after controlling for diferences in asset allocation. Our results show that foreign investors in India do remarkably poorly at security selection.

Subject: Asset allocation, Asset and liability management, Asset prices, Financial markets, Foreign direct investment, Prices, Production, Production growth, Productivity, Stock markets

Keywords: Asset allocation, Asset prices, Bottom quintile company, Chosen firm, DII investment, DII ownership, Domestic Institutional Investors, Firm beta, Firm characteristic, Foreign Investors, Global, Institutional Investor, Production growth, Productivity, R&D company, Stock markets, WP

Publication Details

Pages:

38
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Working Paper No. 2013/090
Stock No:

WPIEA2013090
ISBN:

9781484335567
ISSN:

1018-5941

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