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Fixed NAVs and Costly Puts: US Money Market Mutual Funds (with Peter Tufano)
US money market mutual fund investors have been granted an implicit put option that allows them to sell or redeem their shares at a fixed price of $1.00, regardless of the market value of the portfolio. We describe the institutional features that give rise... View Details
- 07 Feb 2008
- Working Paper Summaries
Attracting Flows by Attracting Big Clients: Conflicts of Interest and Mutual Fund Portfolio Choice
- 2012
- Article
Mutual Fund Trading Pressure: Firm-Level Stock Price Impact and Timing of SEOs
By: Mozaffar N. Khan, Leonid Kogan and George Serafeim
In tests of the equity market timing theory of external finance, the prior literature has used overvaluation identifiers such as high market-to-book and high prior returns that are likely correlated with other determinants of SEOs. We use price pressure resulting from... View Details
Keywords: Equity; Market Transactions; Valuation; Capital Structure; Market Timing; Mathematical Methods; Acquisition
Khan, Mozaffar N., Leonid Kogan, and George Serafeim. "Mutual Fund Trading Pressure: Firm-Level Stock Price Impact and Timing of SEOs." Journal of Finance 67, no. 4 (August 2012): 1371–1395.
- 2008
- Working Paper
Attracting Flows by Attracting Big Clients: Conflicts of Interest and Mutual Fund Portfolio Choice
By: Lauren Cohen and Breno Schmidt
We explore a new channel for attracting inflows using a unique dataset of corporate 401(k) retirement plans and their mutual fund family trustees. Families secure substantial inflows by being named trustee of a 401(k) plan. This affords the plan sponsor potential... View Details
Keywords: Investment Funds; Investment Portfolio; Conflict of Interests; Financial Services Industry
Cohen, Lauren, and Breno Schmidt. "Attracting Flows by Attracting Big Clients: Conflicts of Interest and Mutual Fund Portfolio Choice." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 08-054, January 2008. (Winner of the Barclays Global Investors Best Paper Prize, Asset Allocation Symposium, European Finance Association 2006. Winner of the Society of Quantitative Analysts Award, Best Paper in Quantitative Investments, Western Finance Association 2007.)
- 27 May 2015
- News
Studies Find Angels Significantly Impact Success Of Funded Companies
- 18 Aug 2013
- News
Public Funds Take Control of Assets, Dodging Wall Street
- 21 Apr 2008
- News
Economic News Too Negative? Just Cut Funding for Data
- 07 Oct 2012
- News
In Search of Funds That Don't Rock the Boat
- 26 Feb 2020
- News
Think Twice Before You Invest in a Private-Equity Fund
- Article
Early Stage Investing in Mexico: The Role of Angel Investors and Seed Capital Funds
By: Roberto Charvel
This articles does a review of newly formed seed capital structures, angel investors and their interaction with venture capital funds in Mexico. View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurial Finance; Emerging Economies; Venture Capital; Entrepreneurship; Financial Services Industry; Latin America; Mexico
Charvel, Roberto. "Early Stage Investing in Mexico: The Role of Angel Investors and Seed Capital Funds." Venture Equity Latin America 12, no. 15 (September 15, 2013).
- October 2020
- Article
The Elasticity of Science
By: Kyle Myers
This paper identifies the degree to which scientists are willing to change the direction of their work in exchange for resources. Data from the National Institutes of Health are used to estimate how scientists respond to targeted funding opportunities. Inducing a... View Details
Myers, Kyle. "The Elasticity of Science." American Economic Journal: Applied Economics 12, no. 4 (October 2020): 103–134.
- 2021
- Working Paper
Enabling Mission Impact: Funding Strategies for High-Risk High-Reward Innovation
By: Carolyn J. Fu, Lars Frolund and Fiona Murray
Fu, Carolyn J., Lars Frolund, and Fiona Murray. "Enabling Mission Impact: Funding Strategies for High-Risk High-Reward Innovation." MIT Innovation Policy Working Paper, February 2021.
- May 1983 (Revised November 1983)
- Background Note
Financial Structure of Corporate Pension Plans and Pension Funds
By: Jay O. Light
Light, Jay O. "Financial Structure of Corporate Pension Plans and Pension Funds." Harvard Business School Background Note 283-075, May 1983. (Revised November 1983.)
- July 2008 (Revised August 2008)
- Teaching Note
Fidelity Investments' Charitable Gift Fund (TN) (A) and (B)
By: Robert C. Pozen
Teaching Note for [309002] and [309003]. View Details
Keywords: Financial Services Industry
- 07 Sep 2022
- Podcast
How Environmental Defense Fund Engages Companies on Climate Policy
Victoria Mills, Managing Director of Environmental Defense Fund’s EDF+Biz program discusses how some companies are starting to advocate for more stringent climate policies as they see climate change affecting their operations, supply chains, and communities. She also... View Details
- 22 Mar 2023
- News
Indian Data Reveals Adani Empire’s Reliance on Offshore Funding
- 09 Mar 2012
- News
Rome Looks to Italian Families to Fund Its Debt
How Donor-Advised Funds Can Amp Up Their Giving Power
Vikram Gandhi, a former Wall Street investment banker who now teaches a course at Harvard Business School that focuses on return, risk and impact investing, also sees investment opportunities for DAFs that go well beyond the usual ESG funds. View Details
- July 2017
- Teaching Note
Eve Hall: The African American Investment Fund in Milwaukee
By: Steven Rogers and Alterrell Mills
- 19 Jun 2014
- News