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title: Retail Investor Attention and Fund Performance
url: https://www.ml-quant.com/papers/ssrn/4992233/
site: ML-Quant (https://www.ml-quant.com)
updated: 2026-09-26
license: Summaries CC BY 4.0; links go to the original sources
index: https://www.ml-quant.com/llms.txt
identifier: SSRN 4992233
source_url: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4992233
featured: 2024-10-23
citations: unknown
topic: Portfolio & Allocation
---


# Retail Investor Attention and Fund Performance

A metric called Total Views, which measures retail investor attention to mutual funds, can predict retail fund flows and performance, with high-performing funds attracting more inflows.

- Source: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4992233
- Identifier: SSRN 4992233
- Released: 2024-09-20
- First featured: Quant Letter No. 71 (2024-10-23): https://www.ml-quant.com/issues/2024-10-23/
- Citations (Semantic Scholar): not tracked
- Published in: not yet
- Topic: Portfolio & Allocation

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