Advertising and Mutual Funds: From Families to Individual Funds

51 Pages Posted: 23 Mar 2009

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Steven T Gallaher

Southern New Hampshire University

Ron Kaniel

University of Rochester - Simon Business School; CEPR

Laura T. Starks

University of Texas at Austin - Department of Finance

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Date Written: October 30, 2008

Abstract

We find that advertising appears to have significant effects on investor flows at the industry, family and individual fund level. At the industry level, flows are higher in months with more advertising dollars spent, even for non-advertising families. At the family level, flows have a convex relation with advertising expenditures, similar to that for performance, with a significant positive effect for high relative advertisers only. At the individual fund level, advertising stems redemptions rather than increasing purchases of fund shares. We further find that advertising can affect the fund's flow-performance sensitivity, dampening it for poorly performing funds and increasing it for highly performing funds.

Keywords: mutual fund, flow, advertising, fund flows

JEL Classification: G11, L15, M37

Suggested Citation

Gallaher, Steven T and Kaniel, Ron and Starks, Laura T., Advertising and Mutual Funds: From Families to Individual Funds (October 30, 2008). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1362535 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1362535

Steven T Gallaher

Southern New Hampshire University ( email )

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Ron Kaniel

University of Rochester - Simon Business School ( email )

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Laura T. Starks (Contact Author)

University of Texas at Austin - Department of Finance ( email )

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United States
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