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How do retail investors respond to summary disclosure? Evidence from mutual fund factsheets

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  • Alper Darendeli

    (Nanyang Technological University)

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Mutual funds regularly issue factsheets to communicate their performance in a short summary form. I investigate whether the release of factsheets in Morningstar plays a role in the trading behavior of retail investors. I find that retail investors react more to performance measures in factsheets when these are disseminated through Morningstar, and therefore made salient, than when they are not. The results cannot be explained by dissemination via alternative platforms, fund advertising, marketing by financial intermediaries, funds’ anticipation of investor reaction, or selective reporting of performance measures. Additional analysis suggests that factsheets do not help improve retail investors’ investment allocation decisions; if anything, I find some evidence consistent with overreaction to performance measures disseminated via factsheets, while mandatory fund disclosures tend to mitigate this overreaction. Taken together, these findings contribute to a more nuanced understanding of summary disclosures by highlighting the unintended consequence of investor overreaction.

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  • Alper Darendeli, 2025. "How do retail investors respond to summary disclosure? Evidence from mutual fund factsheets," Review of Accounting Studies, Springer, vol. 30(2), pages 1222-1266, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:reaccs:v:30:y:2025:i:2:d:10.1007_s11142-024-09849-1
    DOI: 10.1007/s11142-024-09849-1
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    Keywords

    Summary disclosure; Retail investors; Mutual fund; Factsheets; Information dissemination;
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    JEL classification:

    • G23 - Financial Economics - - Financial Institutions and Services - - - Non-bank Financial Institutions; Financial Instruments; Institutional Investors
    • G11 - Financial Economics - - General Financial Markets - - - Portfolio Choice; Investment Decisions
    • K22 - Law and Economics - - Regulation and Business Law - - - Business and Securities Law
    • G10 - Financial Economics - - General Financial Markets - - - General (includes Measurement and Data)

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