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In this paper, I analyse the reciprocal social influence on investment decisions within an international group of roughly 2,000 mutual fund managers who invested in companies in the DAX30. Using a robust estimation procedure, I provide empirical evidence that the average fund manager puts 0.69% more portfolio weight on a particular stock, if his peers on average assign a weight to the corresponding position which is 1% higher compared to other stocks in the portfolio. The dynamics of this influence on the choice of portfolio weights suggest that fund managers adjust their behaviour according to the prevailing market situation and are more strongly influenced by others in times of an economic downturn. Analysing the working locations of the fund managers, I conclude that more than 90% of the magnitude of influence stems from the social learning. While this form of influence varies much over time, the magnitude of influence resulting from the exchange of opinion is more or less constant.