Firm performance and mutual fund voting

Journal of Banking and Finance

Volumn 33, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 2207-2217

  Ng, Lilian ^a   Wang, Qinghai ^b   Zaiats, Nataliya ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

^b GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c SIMMONS COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Business ties; Institutional shareholder services (ISS); Mutual funds; Proxy voting; Voting policies

Indexed keywords

EID: 70349509416     PISSN: 03784266     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbankfin.2009.05.025     Document Type: Article

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