Business Faculty Publications

Title

Sell-side Analyst Recommendation Revisions and Institutional Demand before and after Regulation FD

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

6-2021

Publication Title

The Financial Review

Keywords

Analyst recommendations, Hedge funds, Institutional trading, Regulation FD

Disciplines

Business | Finance and Financial Management

Abstract

We examine institutional trading in relation to changes in consensus recommendations over time. We find that pre-Reg FD's positive contemporaneous relation between hedge fund trading and change in consensus becomes negative after Reg FD, but the positive relation between nonhedge fund trading and change in consensus continues even after Reg FD. Furthermore, during post-Reg FD, while the performance of hedge funds’ trades that contradict with analysts improve, nonhedge funds’ trades that agree with analysts significantly deteriorate. Our evidence suggests that hedge funds have better information processing skill and are more cognizant about the role of selective information in analyst recommendations.

DOI

https://doi.org/10.1111/fire.12273

Volume

56

Issue

3

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