Efficiently Inefficient Markets for Assets and Asset Management

62 Pages Posted: 12 Aug 2015 Last revised: 9 Jun 2017

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Nicolae Garleanu

University of California, Berkeley - Haas School of Business; National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER); Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR)

Lasse Heje Pedersen

AQR Capital Management, LLC; Copenhagen Business School - Department of Finance; New York University (NYU); Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR)

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Date Written: June 2017

Abstract

We consider a model where investors can invest directly or search for an asset manager, information about assets is costly, and managers charge an endogenous fee. The efficiency of asset prices is linked to the efficiency of the asset management market: if investors can find managers more easily, more money is allocated to active management, fees are lower, and asset prices are more efficient. Informed managers outperform after fees, uninformed managers underperform after fees, and the net performance of the average manager depends on the number of "noise allocators." Small investors should be passive, but large and sophisticated investors benefit from searching for informed active managers since their search cost is low relative to capital. Hence, managers with larger and more sophisticated investors are expected to outperform.

Keywords: Asset management, investment, information, search, efficiency, asset pricing, liquidity

JEL Classification: G1, G11, G12, G14, G2, G23, G24

Suggested Citation

Garleanu, Nicolae Bogdan and Pedersen, Lasse Heje, Efficiently Inefficient Markets for Assets and Asset Management (June 2017). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2641770 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2641770

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