How do Individual, Institutional, and Foreign Investors Win and Lose in Equity Trades? Evidence from Japan

38 Pages Posted: 13 Feb 2004

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Kee-Hong Bae

York University - Schulich School of Business

Takeshi Yamada

Australian National University (ANU)

Keiichi Ito

Nomura Holdings, Inc. (NHI) - Nomura Securities Co., Ltd.

Date Written: June 2006

Abstract

We investigate the gains and losses from equity trades of individual investors, various institutional investors, and foreign investors in the Tokyo Stock Exchange. We develop a trade-weighted performance measure and examine the impact of trading intervals, price spreads, and market timing on performance. We find that different investor types gain or lose from different sources. For example, we discover that individual investors have poor market timing ability but potentially gain during short-run trading intervals as their average sell price is consistently higher than the average purchase price. In contrast, we find that foreign investors consistently generate gains from trade due to good market timing, although their average sell price is lower than the average purchase price. Also, we find that foreign investors extract significant portion of their gains by trading against Japanese institutional investors when Japanese investors trade before their fiscal-year end.

Keywords: trade performance, equity trading, heterogeneous investor

JEL Classification: G10, G14

Suggested Citation

Bae, Kee-Hong and Yamada, Takeshi and Ito, Keiichi, How do Individual, Institutional, and Foreign Investors Win and Lose in Equity Trades? Evidence from Japan (June 2006). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=500242 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.500242

Kee-Hong Bae

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Takeshi Yamada (Contact Author)

Australian National University (ANU) ( email )

Canberra, Australian Capital Territory 2601
Australia

Keiichi Ito

Nomura Holdings, Inc. (NHI) - Nomura Securities Co., Ltd. ( email )

Tokyo 100-8130
Japan