{"id":212460,"date":"2026-04-07T15:39:51","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T19:39:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ibkrcampus.eu\/campus\/uncategorized\/face-to-face-social-interactions-and-local-informational-advantage\/"},"modified":"2026-04-15T08:16:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T08:16:07","slug":"face-to-face-social-interactions-and-local-informational-advantage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.interactivebrokers.eu\/campus\/ibkr-quant-news\/face-to-face-social-interactions-and-local-informational-advantage\/","title":{"rendered":"Face-to-Face Social Interactions and Local Informational Advantage"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>The &#8220;Face-to-Face Social Interactions and Local Informational Advantage&#8221; was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/alphaarchitect.com\/mutual-fund-managers\/\">Alpha Architect<\/a> blog.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mutual fund managers have long been thought to benefit from being close to the companies they follow. But what exactly creates that edge? Better public information, faster internal communication or something more human? This paper argues that the missing piece is face-to-face contact itself. When COVID lockdowns abruptly disrupted in-person meetings, fund managers\u2019 advantage in local stocks weakened, suggesting that some investment edge still depends on trust, nuance, and soft information that does not travel as well through screens.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-face-to-face-social-interactions-and-local-informational-advantage\"><strong>Face-to-face social interactions and local informational advantage<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Robin Y. Lee<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Journal of Financial Economics, 2026<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>A version of this paper can be found&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/papers.ssrn.com\/sol3\/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4141550\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Want to read our summaries of academic finance papers? Check out our&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/alphaarchitect.com\/category\/architect-academic-insights\/academic-research-insight\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Academic Research Insight<\/a>&nbsp;category<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-key-academic-insights\">Key Academic Insights<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Face-to-face contact appears to create a real local information edge<\/strong><br>Using COVID-19 lockdowns as an exogenous shock, the paper shows that mutual fund managers\u2019 performance in local stocks deteriorated relative to distant stocks when in-person meetings were curtailed. The effect is not just about weaker local economies. It shows up in worse investment timing on the same stocks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The economic effect is meaningful<\/strong><br>After lockdowns, monthly benchmark-adjusted and DGTW-adjusted returns on local portfolios were about 0.2 to 0.4 percentage points lower than on distant portfolios, relative to the pre-lockdown period. For an average pre-lockdown local portfolio of $277 million, the paper estimates that a 0.4 percentage point monthly drop implies an annualized loss of roughly $13.3 million per fund.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The mechanism looks like soft information, not just hard data<\/strong><br>The author compares local and distant investors trading the same stock and finds that local funds increased portfolio weight less aggressively after positive stock moves once face-to-face contact was disrupted. A one-percentage-point increase in a local position was associated with 1.3 to 1.5 percentage points lower abnormal return over the following three months, relative to distant positions, compared with the pre-lockdown period.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Trust-building is one reason in-person meetings matter<\/strong><br>The paper argues that face-to-face meetings help build trust, which matters when information is soft, nuanced, and hard to verify. The adverse effect of losing that channel is stronger when trust distance between fund managers and corporate managers is higher. A one standard deviation increase in trust distance is associated with a 0.79 percentage point lower next-period abnormal return for local versus distant investments, per one-percentage-point increase in portfolio weight, after lockdowns.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Impression management matters too, especially on the buy side<\/strong><br>The deterioration is concentrated in buy decisions rather than sell decisions, consistent with the idea that in-person meetings are particularly useful for transmitting favorable soft information. The effect is also stronger for firms whose CEOs have higher pay-for-performance sensitivity, suggesting that executives with stronger incentives to shape investor perceptions benefit more from the face-to-face channel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-practical-applications-for-investment-advisors\">Practical Applications for Investment Advisors<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Be cautious about assuming all information travels equally well digitally<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For local or relationship-driven investing, video calls and disclosures may not fully replace in-person access. If your process depends on management access, local networks, or private channel checks, treat face-to-face disruption as a real risk to information quality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Pay more attention in less transparent names<\/strong><br>The paper finds stronger effects in stocks with less transparent information environments, such as firms outside the S&amp;P 500 and those with higher idiosyncratic uncertainty. That means local edge may matter more in harder-to-read businesses than in large, heavily covered names.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Separate informational edge from fundamental exposure<\/strong><br>A useful takeaway for due diligence is to ask whether a manager\u2019s edge comes from superior analysis of public data or from relationship-based access to soft information. Those are different skill sets, and the second one may be more vulnerable when travel, access, or social contact is disrupted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Do not confuse lower active share with inactivity<\/strong><br>The paper finds that managers reduced deviations from benchmark holdings after lockdowns, but they still traded actively. That suggests the problem was not a collapse in effort. It was a weaker signal environment. Advisors should distinguish between reduced conviction and reduced ability to extract information.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-how-to-explain-this-to-clients\">How to Explain This to Clients<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cBeing close to a company is not just about geography. It is often about access. This paper shows that when face-to-face meetings suddenly disappeared, professional investors lost some of their edge in nearby stocks. In other words, some information is still transmitted best in person, especially when trust, nuance, and judgment matter more than raw public data.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-the-most-important-chart-from-the-paper\">The Most Important Chart from the Paper<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Table 1 summarizes the characteristics of sample funds reported separately for the pre-lockdown period (from January 2019 through the month before lockdown orders were implemented in the fund\u2019s location) in Panel A, and for the post-lockdown period (from the implementation month through December 2020) in Panel B. Returns are calculated monthly and reported in percentage points. \ud835\udc47\ud835\udc41\ud835\udc34 refers to the fund\u2019s total net assets in millions. \ud835\udc39\ud835\udc59\ud835\udc5c\ud835\udc64 denotes monthly fund inflows in decimals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\ud835\udc3f\ud835\udc5c\ud835\udc50\ud835\udc4e\ud835\udc59 \ud835\udc5c\ud835\udc63\ud835\udc52\ud835\udc5f\ud835\udc64\ud835\udc52\ud835\udc56\ud835\udc54\u210e\ud835\udc61 is a measure from Coval and Moskowitz (2001) in percentage points.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"777\" height=\"321\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.interactivebrokers.com\/campus\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/04\/Face-to-face-social-interactions-and-local-informational-advantage.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-212461 lazyload\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/ibkrcampus.eu\/campus\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2026\/04\/Face-to-face-social-interactions-and-local-informational-advantage.png 777w, https:\/\/ibkrcampus.eu\/campus\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2026\/04\/Face-to-face-social-interactions-and-local-informational-advantage-700x289.png 700w, https:\/\/ibkrcampus.eu\/campus\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2026\/04\/Face-to-face-social-interactions-and-local-informational-advantage-300x124.png 300w, https:\/\/ibkrcampus.eu\/campus\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2026\/04\/Face-to-face-social-interactions-and-local-informational-advantage-768x317.png 768w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 777px) 100vw, 777px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 777px; aspect-ratio: 777\/321;\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><em>The results are hypothetical results and are <strong>NOT an indicator of future results and do NOT represent returns<\/strong> that any investor actually attained.\u00a0Indexes are unmanaged and do not reflect management or trading fees, and one cannot invest directly in an index<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-abstract\">Abstract<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>This paper examines the causal role of face-to-face (F2F) interactions in generating local informational<br>advantages for mutual fund managers. Using COVID-19 lockdowns as an exogenous shock, I show that fund managers\u2019 performance on local stocks declined relative to distant stocks when in-person meetings were curtailed, driven by impaired investment timing rather than changes in firm fundamentals. I investigate two distinct benefits of F2F interactions arising from interpersonal cues: trust-building, which enhances the transmission of soft information, and impression management, which facilitates the transmission of favorable information. 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