“…In contrast to traditional performance studies, recent studies take a different approach and examine either the performance of the individual stocks held in fund manager portfolios or the performance of their trades (see Grinblatt and Titman, 1989;Chan and Lakonishok, 1993;Daniel et al, 1997;Chen et al, 2000;Wermers, 2000;Pinnuck, 2003;Chiyachantana et al, 2004;Foster et al, 2005;Gallagher and Pinnuck, 2006;and Gallagher and Looi, 2006). All these studies argue that an examination of the performance of the stocks/trades held by fund managers enables a more powerful test of their stock selection abilities.…”