“…Tournaments take place not only in a given fund segment, but also within families of funds that belong to the same controlling group but offer On the theoretical side, a vast literature has modelled mutual fund tournaments and challenged the narrow-sense risk-shifting hypothesis, that losers gamble and winners index (Acker and Duck, 2006;Basak and Makarov, 2010;Basak, Pavlova and Shapiro, 2007;Chen and Pennacchi, 2009;Goriaev, Palomino and Prat, 2001;Taylor, 2003). The degree of risk tolerance affects the risk-ranking relationship and, under risk neutrality, may even cause winners to gamble (Basak and Makarov, 2010).…”