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title: Mutual Fund Trading
url: https://www.ml-quant.com/papers/ssrn/4943397/
site: ML-Quant (https://www.ml-quant.com)
updated: 2026-09-26
license: Summaries CC BY 4.0; links go to the original sources
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identifier: SSRN 4943397
source_url: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4943397
featured: 2024-09-05
citations: unknown
topic: Trading, Microstructure & Execution
---


# Mutual Fund Trading

A new method reveals that individual mutual funds strategically trade ESG stocks, particularly around the extreme ESG rating categories' cutoffs.

- Source: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4943397
- Identifier: SSRN 4943397
- Released: 2024-08-31
- First featured: Quant Letter No. 64 (2024-09-05): https://www.ml-quant.com/issues/2024-09-05/
- Citations (Semantic Scholar): not tracked
- Published in: not yet
- Topic: Trading, Microstructure & Execution

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