Institutional Portfolios and M&A Returns

Sammanfattning: Purpose: To examine how investors’ portfolio exposure in a concentrated ownership-structure affects abnormal returns for the bidding company in a merger and acquisition on the Swedish market Methodology: Quantitative research approach with an event study to explore cumulative abnormal return, multivariate regression analysis Theoretical Perspective: Agency theory, M&A wealth effects, empire building,managerial hubris, block-ownership, institutional ownership Empirical foundation: A sample of 338 acquisitions completed on the Swedish market between January 2001 and January 2015 Conclusion: This study can not with todays limited foreign portfolio data confirm that high portfolio exposure of an institutional investor does create higher CAR in the event of a M&A.