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Affiliated mutual funds and analyst optimism

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  • Massimo Guidolin
  • Simona Mola

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Prior studies have shown that investment banking affiliations place pressure on analysts to produce optimistic recommendations on the investment bank?s stock-clients. Our analysis of a large sample of recommendations issued from 1995 through 2003 indicates that a mutual fund affiliation also affects analysts? research. That is, analysts are likely to look favorably at stocks held by the affiliated mutual funds. Controlling for a variety of factors including the investment banking affiliation, we find that the greater the portfolio weight of a stock for the affiliated mutual funds, the more optimistic the analyst rating becomes when compared to the consensus. Reputation partly restrains the optimism of analyst recommendations. In fact, the presence of other institutional investors as shareholders of the recommended stocks curbs analyst optimism. Nevertheless, from 1999 through 2001, star analysts report the most optimism when they recommend stocks in the portfolios of affiliated mutual funds.

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  • Massimo Guidolin & Simona Mola, 2007. "Affiliated mutual funds and analyst optimism," Working Papers 2007-017, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis.
    • Handle: RePEc:fip:fedlwp:2007-017
    DOI: 10.20955/wp.2007.017
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