...Yutong Sun; Shangrong Jiang; Shouyang Wang Purpose This study explores the contagion of greenwashing strategies among ESG mutual funds. It investigates how the greenwashing behaviors of peer funds within the same family influence a fund’s decision to engage in greenwashing. The research also...

...Quanxi Liang; Jiangshan Liao; Leng Ling Purpose This paper aims to investigate the influence of social interactions on mutual fund portfolios from the perspective of alumni network in China. Design/methodology/approach Based on a data set that consists of 162 actively managed equity funds...

... with the overlap measure, and thereby the decline in performance is driven by the stock-picking ability. The authors also discuss the unobserved actions of incumbents using the approach proposed by Kacperczyk et al. (2008) and find that incumbent unobserved actions do not benefit mutual fund investors...