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The growth in mutual fund investment has been substantial in the past decades. As a result, mutual funds are now one of the largest owners of equities. For example, in 2003 mutual funds owned almost 30 percent of outstanding equities in the USA and 15 percent in Europe (Fefsi, 2003). A growing body of research is investigating how mutual fund flows and stock prices are related (for example, Warther, 1995; Choe, Ko and Stulz, 1999; Fant, 1999; Edelen and Warner, 2001; Froot, O’Connel and Seasholes, 2001; Bekaert, Harvey and Lumsdaine, 2002). These studies document in general that there is a positive relationship between fund flows and stock prices. For the US market, for example, Warther (1995) reports that an unexpected flow into mutual funds of 1 percent of total stock fund assets corresponds to a 5.7 percent increase in the stock price index.
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Breuer, W., Stotz, O. (2007). Mutual Fund Flows and Expected Stock Returns in Germany: The Role of the Benchmark and of Expectation Biases. In: Gregoriou, G.N. (eds) Diversification and Portfolio Management of Mutual Funds. Finance and Capital Markets Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230626508_7
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