Sung-Gon Chung and Melvyn Teo
BNP Paribas Hedge Fund Centre at SMU
Nov 2010
We find that analysts are more likely to issue favourable recommendations for stocks predominantly owned hedge funds. Moreover, these optimistic recommendations translate into poorer stock performance over the next three to six months. Hedge funds take advantage of these flattering reports by concurrently offloading their stock holdings. Our results suggest that analysts are reluctant to downgrade stocks held by their most important clients.
