Business Weekly: Cambridge Judge Business School finds hope for change in gender bias study
A study co-authored by Professor Raghavendra Rau and PhD student Jinhua Wang at Cambridge Judge Business School finds that ‘gender-based attention bias’ toward women mutual fund managers works both ways, lowering fund-flow volatility, and this could boost the current low…
Counterintuitive bias
A new study at Cambridge Judge Business School finds that ‘gender-based attention bias’ toward women mutual fund managers works both ways, lowering fund-flow volatility, and this could boost the current low number of women fund managers. Professor Raghavendra Rau The…
LexBlog: Do investors pay less attention to women fund managers?
Raghavendra Rau, Sir Evelyn de Rothschild Professor of Finance at Cambridge Judge Business School, discusses his latest study looking into women fund managers. The study documents “a different and previously unstudied type of gender bias in investor behavior, which we…
Financial Times: The active fund management model is not fit for purpose
Mutual funds are exploiting "unsophisticated"” mutual fund investors who chase "stale returns" because they're unable to distinguish between positive new results and the dropping of poor older results from the relevant reporting period, says research co-authored by Raghavendra Rau, Sir…
Stale illusion
Mutual funds exploit through higher fees investors who chase 'stale returns'. Investors fail to distinguish relevant and stale components of fund performance, finds research co-authored at Cambridge Judge Business School. Mutual funds are exploiting "unsophisticated" mutual fund investors who chase…
‘Copycatting’ doesn’t work in the mutual fund world
Superior fund managers can’t be identified in advance, says research co-authored by Cambridge Judge Business School finance professor Suppose you want to find the smartest student in a classroom, you would look for the one from whom others copy their…
