Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/65373 
Year of Publication: 
2012
Series/Report no.: 
CFR Working Paper No. 12-07
Publisher: 
University of Cologne, Centre for Financial Research (CFR), Cologne
Abstract: 
We investigate the abilities of buy-side analysts by analyzing nontraditional mutual funds that are exclusively managed by in-house analysts rather than traditional portfolio managers. Analysts exhibit stronger general and job-specific investment abilities than traditional managers from within and outside the fund family. Using holdings of analystrun funds as a proxy for the analysts' best ideas, we document that more-skilled portfolio managers rely on analysts' ideas from the same family to a lesser extent than less-skilled managers. We find that analysts' abilities matter in that they are positively related to the future performance of other funds within the same family.
Subjects: 
Mutual Funds
Buy-Side Analysts
Performance Valuation
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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