Liquidity Provision by International Institutional Investors: Evidence from Brazilian Privatization

The SEC requires public companies to disclose material information on Form 8-K within four days of a triggering event. We show that, on 8-K event and filing dates, there is significant abnormal attention on Bloomberg terminals, which are a source of information for institutional investors, while traditional media attention tends to be higher on filing days. Significant price discovery occurs on the event date and on the days between that day and the filing date. The traditional media coverage on the filing day appears to attract the attention of retail investors and leads to further price changes in the direction of the pre-filing day price change. Institutional investors exploit this price pressure via opportunistic liquidity provision. Overall, our evidence suggests that the Form 8-K filing may have little direct informational benefit, particularly to retail investors.

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Packaging Liquidity: Blind Auctions and Transaction Efficiencies

Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis ◽

10.1017/s0022109000001836 ◽

2005 ◽

Vol 40 (3) ◽

pp. 465-492 ◽

Cited By ~ 21

Author(s):

Kenneth A. Kavajecz ◽

Donald B. Keim

Keyword(s):

Institutional Investors ◽

Low Cost ◽

Cost Savings ◽

Individual Investors ◽

Investment Strategies ◽

Critical Feature ◽

Liquidity Provision ◽

Trading Mechanisms ◽

The Individual ◽

The Cost

AbstractThe costs of implementing investment strategies represent a significant drag on the performance of mutual funds and other institutional investors. It is the responsibility of institutional investors, and in the interests of the individual investors they represent, to seek market mechanisms that mitigate trading costs. We investigate an example of one such liquidity provision mechanism whereby liquidity demanders auction a set of trades as a package directly to potential liquidity providers. A critical feature of the auction is that the identities of the securities in the package are not revealed to the bidder. We demonstrate that this mechanism provides a transactions cost savings relative to more traditional trading mechanisms for the liquidity demander as well as an efficient way for liquidity suppliers to obtain order flow. We argue that the cost savings afforded this new mechanism are due to the potential for low cost crosses with the bidder's existing inventory positions and through the longer trading horizon, and superior trading ability, of the bidders. This research suggests that the ability to innovate via new liquidity provision mechanisms can provide market participants with transaction cost savings that cannot be easily duplicated on more traditional exchanges.

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Short-Term Reversals: The Effects of Past Returns and Institutional Exits

Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis ◽

10.1017/s0022109016000958 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 52 (1) ◽

pp. 143-173 ◽

Cited By ~ 27

Author(s):

Si Cheng ◽

Allaudeen Hameed ◽

Avanidhar Subrahmanyam ◽

Sheridan Titman

Keyword(s):

Institutional Investors ◽

Short Term ◽

Liquidity Provision ◽

Monthly Return ◽

Return Reversals

Price declines over the previous quarter lead to stronger reversals across the subsequent 2 months. We explain this finding based on the dual notions that liquidity provision can influence reversals and that agents who act as de facto liquidity providers may be less active in past losers. Supporting these observations, we find that active institutions participate less in losing stocks and that the magnitude of monthly return reversals fluctuates with changes in the number of active institutional investors. Thus, we argue that fluctuations in liquidity provision with past return performance account for the link between return reversals and past returns.

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Institutional Investors on the Securities Market

Voprosy Ekonomiki ◽

10.32609/0042-8736-2003-8-95-101 ◽

2003 ◽

pp. 95-101

Author(s):

O. Khmyz

Keyword(s):

Financial Crisis ◽

Capital Market ◽

Hedge Funds ◽

Institutional Investors ◽

Securities Market ◽

Main Role ◽

Investment Funds ◽

Investment Process ◽

The Capital Market

Acording to the author's opinion, institutional investors (from many participants of the capital market) play the main role, especially investment funds. They supply to small-sized investors special investment services, which allow them to participate in the investment process. However excessive institutialization and increasing number of hedge-funds may lead to financial crisis.

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Pricing models of shares of Russian companies and their practical application

Voprosy Ekonomiki ◽

10.32609/0042-8736-2019-3-48-76 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 48-76 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Alexander E. Abramov ◽

Alexander D. Radygin ◽

Maria I. Chernova

Keyword(s):

Stock Market ◽

Institutional Investors ◽

Factor Model ◽

Investment Strategies ◽

Pricing Models ◽

Foreign Portfolio Investment ◽

Market Portfolio ◽

Stock Market Performance ◽

Long Time ◽

Russian Stock Market

The article analyzes the problems of applying stock pricing models in the Russian stock market. The novelty of the study lies in the peculiarities of the methodology used and the substantive conclusions on the specifics of the influence of fundamental factors on the pricing of shares of Russian companies. The study was conducted using its own 5-factor basic pricing model based on a sample of the most complete number of issues of shares of Russian issuers and a long time horizon, from 1997 to 2017. The market portfolio was the widest for a set of issuers. We consider the factor model as a kind of universal indicator of the efficiency of the stock market performance of its functions. The article confirms the significance of factors of a broad market portfolio, size, liquidity and, in part, momentum (inertia). However, starting from 2011, the significance of factors began to decrease as the qualitative characteristics of the stock market deteriorated due to the outflow of foreign portfolio investment, combined with the low level of development of domestic institutional investors. Also identified is the cyclical nature of the actions of company size and liquidity factors. Their ability to generate additional income on shares rises mainly at the stage of the fall of the stock market. The results of the study suggest that as domestic institutional investors develop on the Russian stock market, factor investment strategies can be used as a tool to increase the return on investor portfolios.

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