“…In the past two decades, research has been extensive on this issue, with evidence from a multitude of markets internationally confirming that fund managers do indeed engage in peer-mimicking in their trading conduct. More specifically, institutional investors have been found to herd significantly in a rather diverse set of markets, including Germany (Walter and Weber, 2006;Kremer and Nautz, 2011), Portugal (Holmes et al, 2011), Taiwan (Chen et al, 2012), the UK (Wylie, 2005) and the US (e.g. Lakonishok et al, 1992;Wermers, 1999;Sias, 2004;Choi and Sias, 2009).…”