The Investment Value of Fund Managers’ Experience Outside the Financial Sector

55 Pages Posted: 21 Sep 2014 Last revised: 11 Jun 2017

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Gjergji Cici

University of Kansas - School of Business

Monika Gehde-Trapp

University of Mannheim - Finance Area

Marc-André Goericke

University of Cologne

Alexander Kempf

University of Cologne - Department of Finance & Centre for Financial Research (CFR)

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Date Written: June 10, 2017

Abstract

Human capital acquired while working in other industries before joining fund management provides fund managers with an information advantage. Fund managers exploit this advantage by overweighting their experience industries, picking outperforming stocks from these industries, and timing investments in their experience industries better than in other industries. These managers’ superior information gets impounded into stock prices slowly, allowing for profitable mimicking strategies. Families exploit their manager’s industry-specific human capital by employing their investment ideas broadly in other funds. The investment value of industry experience is unaffected by whether the manager with such experience is in a team or not.

Keywords: Investor Learning, Investor Experience, Mutual funds

JEL Classification: G23, D83, J24

Suggested Citation

Cici, Gjergji and Gehde-Trapp, Monika and Goericke, Marc-André and Kempf, Alexander, The Investment Value of Fund Managers’ Experience Outside the Financial Sector (June 10, 2017). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2498797 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2498797

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