Measuring Tax-Sensitive Institutional Investor Ownership
57 Pages Posted: 4 Aug 2016
Date Written: June 17, 2016
Abstract
We classify all institutional investors that file Form 13F over the period 1995-2013 as either “tax-sensitive” or “tax-insensitive” based on their trading behavior and portfolio characteristics. We examine tests of the effects of investor tax-sensitivity on portfolio rebalancing, price pressure, and fund performance, and compare our measure of tax-sensitive institutional investor ownership to three measures used in prior studies. We show that our measure of tax-sensitive investors dominates other measures in the portfolio rebalancing and price pressure tests. In the fund performance test, our measure of tax-sensitivity is the only one that finds that tax-sensitive investors have significantly lower returns on their portfolio stocks, which is a new result in the literature.
Keywords: institutional investors, tax-sensitivity, capital gains taxes, portfolio performance
JEL Classification: G11, G20, H24
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