Institutional Investors and Long-Term Investment : Evidence from Chile
Developing countries are trying to develop long-term financial markets and institutional investors are expected to play a key role. This paper uses unique evidence on the universe of institutional investors from the leading case of Chile to study t...
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| Language: | English en_US |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2014
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2014/06/19680163/institutional-investors-long-term-investment-evidence-chile http://hdl.handle.net/10986/18756 |
| Summary: | Developing countries are trying to
develop long-term financial markets and institutional
investors are expected to play a key role. This paper uses
unique evidence on the universe of institutional investors
from the leading case of Chile to study to what extent
mutual funds, pension funds, and insurance companies hold
and bid for long-term instruments, and which factors affect
their choices. The paper uses monthly asset-level portfolios
to show that, despite the expectations, mutual and pension
funds invest mostly in short-term assets relative to
insurance companies. The significant difference across
maturity structures is not driven by the supply side of debt
or tactical behavior. Instead, it seems to be explained by
manager incentives (related to short-run monitoring and the
liability structure) that, combined with risk factors, tilt
portfolios toward short-term instruments, even when
long-term investing yields higher returns. Thus, the
expansion of large institutional investors does not
necessarily imply longer-term markets. |
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