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- Title
Blockholder mutual fund participation in private in‐house meetings.
- Authors
Bowen, Robert M.; Dutta, Shantanu; Tang, Songlian; Zhu, Pengcheng
- Abstract
The Shenzhen Stock Exchange (SZSE) in China is unique worldwide in requiring disclosure of the timing, participants, and selected content of private in‐house meetings between firm managers and outsider investors. We investigate whether these private meetings benefit hosting firms and their major outside institutional investors—blockholder mutual funds (i.e., funds with ownership ≥5%). Using a large data set of SZSE firms, we find that blockholder mutual funds have more access to private in‐house meetings, and top management is more likely to be present, especially when a meeting is associated with negative news. Furthermore, when blockholder mutual funds attend negative‐news meetings with top management, they are less likely to sell shares, their investment relationship with the hosting firm lasts longer, and hosting firms experience lower postmeeting stock return volatility. These findings suggest that private in‐house meetings are an informative disclosure channel that improves social bonding between top management and blockholder mutual funds in ways that benefit hosting firms.
- Subjects
CHINA; SHENZHEN zheng quan jiao yi suo; PRIVATE equity funds; STOCK funds; RATE of return on stocks; MUTUAL funds; INVESTORS; INSTITUTIONAL investors
- Publication
Journal of Financial Research, 2023, Vol 46, Issue 3, p631
- ISSN
0270-2592
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/jfir.12327