Information Acquisition, International Under-Diversification and Portfolio Performance of Institutional Investors

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Nicole Y. Choi

University of Wyoming - Department of Economics and Finance

Mark Fedenia

University of Wisconsin - Madison - Department of Finance, Investment and Banking

Hilla Skiba

Colorado State University

Tatyana Sokolyk

Brock University - Department of Finance, Operations & Information Systems

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Date Written: January 10, 2012

Abstract

We test whether 1) institutional investors with concentrated international holdings outperform internationally diversified investors, and 2) foreign investors with information advantage, measured by cultural and geographic proximity to the target market, outperform other foreign investors. Using the United States as a target market, we document that investors concentrated in US securities do not outperform other investors. This result contradicts the idea that internationally under-diversified portfolios are mean-variance efficient due to the benefits of economies of scale and specialization. However, cultural similarity and geographic proximity to the US enhance investors’ performance in US securities.

Keywords: international institutional investors, information advantage, under-diversification

JEL Classification: G11, G15

Suggested Citation

Choi, Nicole Y. and Fedenia, Mark A. and Skiba, Hilla and Sokolyk, Tatyana, Information Acquisition, International Under-Diversification and Portfolio Performance of Institutional Investors (January 10, 2012). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1928336 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1928336

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Hilla Skiba

Colorado State University ( email )

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Tatyana Sokolyk

Brock University - Department of Finance, Operations & Information Systems ( email )

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