Individual Investor Mutual-Fund Flows

We thank an anonymous discount broker for providing data on individual investors' trades and Terry Odean for his help in obtaining and understanding the data set. Special thanks go to Joshua Pollet, Clemens Sialm, and Jay Wang for many insightful suggestions. We also thank seminar participants at the 2005 FEA Meetings at UNC (especially the discussant Jason Karceski), the 2006 EFA Meetings in Zürich (especially the discussant Daniel Bergstresser), the 2007 WFA Meetings in Big Sky, Montana (especially the discussant Sunil Wahal), Arizona State University, Florida State University, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Michigan State University, Nanyang Technological University, Purdue University, Queens University, Singapore Management University, the University of Illinois, the University of Indiana, the University of Münster, the University of Texas, and the University of Wisconsin for useful comments. Both authors acknowledge the financial support from the College Research Board at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The views expressed herein are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.