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Influence of French and Foreign Institutional Owners on Firms’ Financial Performance


Jean-Michel Sahut


University of Applied Sciences - Geneva School of Business Administration; University of Poitiers

Hidaya Othmani Gharbi


affiliation not provided to SSRN

February 16, 2011


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This paper aims at clarifying the relationship between institutional owners and firms’ financial performance. We distinguish two categories of institutional investors: French and foreign. We examine also the nature of relations that may develop with firms. Our results for a sample of French firms from SBF 120 index support the heterogeneous character of the institutional investors. We find that French institutional owners may be active investors, mainly when having concentrated ownership.

L’objectif de cet article est d’étudier l’incidence de la présence des investisseurs institutionnels sur la performance des firmes. Nous avons distingué ces investisseurs selon deux catégories : français ou étrangers, et différencions la nature des relations qu’ils peuvent développer avec les entreprises en portefeuilles. A partir d’un échantillon formé par les entreprises de l’indice SBF120, nos résultats indiquent un caractère plutôt hétérogène de ces acteurs. Nous n’avons également pu attribuer un rôle plus actif aux institutionnels étrangers par rapport à leurs homologues français. Notre recherche semble dans ce cadre contredire l’orientation généralement passive attribuée aux institutionnels français, surtout en cas de concentration de l’actionnariat entre les mains de ces acteurs.

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Number of Pages in PDF File: 24

Keywords: institutional owners, foreign, domestic, performance, fund, active behavior, passive behavior

JEL Classification: G23, G11, L25

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Date posted: February 18, 2011  

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Sahut, Jean-Michel and Gharbi, Hidaya Othmani, Influence of French and Foreign Institutional Owners on Firms’ Financial Performance (February 16, 2011). Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1762832 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1762832

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Jean-Michel Sahut (Contact Author)
University of Applied Sciences - Geneva School of Business Administration ( email )
CH-1227 Geneva
Switzerland
HOME PAGE: http://www.hesge.ch/heg/
University of Poitiers ( email )
POITIERS, 76130
France
HOME PAGE: http://cerege.labo.univ-poitiers.fr/
Hidaya Othmani Gharbi
affiliation not provided to SSRN ( email )
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