nÃo hà / Considering the timing with which the market and the economic and financial analysts require information about the evolution of the assets, this work provides subsidies to apply time series models to anticipate the return of Brazilian government bonds. Vector auto-regressive models are developed and estimated for the main assets in government securities market in 2011 and forecasts suggest that the government bonds indexed to the IPCA and fixed-rate bonds are more promising in return that the government securities post-fixed , a fact consistent with the current context of a world economy that emerges from a crisis scenario. / Considerando a tempestividade com a qual o mercado e os analistas econÃmico-financeiros requerem as informaÃÃes sobre a evoluÃÃo dos ativos, este trabalho fornece subsÃdios ao aplicar modelos de sÃries temporais, para antecipar os retornos de tÃtulos pÃblicos brasileiros. Modelos vetoriais auto-regressivos sÃo desenvolvidos e estimados para os principais tÃtulos pÃblicos ativos no mercado em 2011 e as previsÃes sugerem que os tÃtulos pÃblicos indexados ao IPCA e os tÃtulos pÃblicos prÃ-fixados sÃo mais promissores em rentabilidade que os tÃtulos pÃblicos pÃs-fixados. Este fato à coerente ao contexto atual de uma economia mundial que emerge de um cenÃrio de crise.

nÃo hà / Baseado na literatura e em trabalhos que investigam a hipÃtese de eficiÃncia dos mercados de aÃÃes atravÃs de testes de raiz unitÃria em painel, o objetivo deste trabalho à estender esta metodologia para o mercado de fundos de investimento em aÃÃes. Para tanto, aplicaram-se testes de eficiÃncia para este tipo de mercado para uma amostra nÃo aleatÃria de 20 fundos de investimentos baseados em aÃÃes do mercado brasileiro, utilizando testes que corrijam a caracterÃstica de dados em painel conhecida como dependÃncia transversal, fato este que visa dar validade aos resultados obtidos. Este trabalho faz emprego dos testes Levi, Lin, Shun e In, Pesaran, Chin, que acomodam interdependÃncia entre as unidades cross-action do painel. O resultado principal a ser alcanÃado à mostrar a presenÃa de raiz unitÃria como caracterÃstica na dinÃmica dos Ãndices nesses fundos de investimento em aÃÃes, consistente, assim, com a hipÃtese da eficiÃncia verificando, tambÃm, se os resultados estÃo de acordo com a literatura nacional e internacional, revisitando os trabalhos que empregaram testes em painel que nÃo levam em consideraÃÃo a questÃo da dependÃncia transversal. / Based on the literature and papers that investigate the hypothesis of efficiency of stock markets through the unit root tests in panel, the aim of this paper is to extend this methodology to the investment fund market in stocks, applying efficiency tests for this type of market for a non-random sample of 20 investment funds based on shares of the Brazilian market, using for this purpose, tests that correct feature panel data known as cross dependence, a fact which aims to give validity to the results. This work makes use of the Levi, Lin, Shun and In, Pesaran, Chin tests, accommodating interdependence between units crossaction of the panel. The main result to be achieved is to show the presence of a unit root in the dynamic characteristic of the indices in these investment funds in stocks, consistent, and with the efficiency hypothesis also checking if the results are consistent with national and international literature, revisiting the works that have employed panel tests that do not take into consideration the issue of cross-dependence.

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The international literature in finance offers a wide range of models for performance evaluation of individual assets, portfolios and, especially, investment funds. However, in the Brazilian academia, investment funds have received little attention from researchers and few production has been made on the subject. The objective of this work is to contribute to research on the topic, applying the major models for performance evaluation to ascertain the performance of Brazilian investment funds, as well as determine which variables affect their returns, which management style provides higher return, which benchmark is more attractive and also to study the influence of size effect and the ability of the manager. First, it was built a theoretical framework based on key international and national studies, with the aim of present basic concepts surrounding the subject and justify the use of the models, as well as providing a comparison with results found by previous studies. The theoretical framework also seeks to situate the reader within a historical perspective. The data used were gently supplied by the Associação das Entidades dos Mercados Financeiros e de Capitais (ANBIMA) and passed through filtering procedures to exclude funds with few observations, and merge with the time series from other sources, to ultimately create the variables that were used. The data refer to actively managed funds and passive benchmarks which are Ibovespa, IBrX and ISE. The models and variables used will be commented in the chapter of methodology. The results chapter starts with the descriptive statistics about the data and then bring the fruits of the appliance of theoretical models worked on, which are the performance indexes, the CAPM, the models that incorporate superior moments, the APT model and the model to evaluate the size effect and the comparison between different types of benchmarks and management styles. The results analysis led to the conclusions, showing that all performance indexes yielded similar results, which indicate that passively managed funds whose benchmark is the IBrX has superior return. Models that include co-skewness and co-kurtosis in the CAPM model are important, but it appears that using only the co-skewness may be more interesting than using jointly co-kurtosis. The APT model shows that macroeconomic variables are significant in explaining the returns of the funds, bringing the surprise that industrial production has negative relationship with such returns. No evidence was found that the equity size affects its financial results, but the analysis of funds whose benchmark is the ISE shows clearly that such investments generate returns inferior to the other. / A literatura internacional em finanças propõe um vasto conjunto de modelos de avaliação de performance para ativos individuais, portfólios e, especialmente, fundos de investimento. Contudo, no meio acadêmico brasileiro, os fundos de investimento receberam pouca atenção dos pesquisadores e a produção acerca do assunto ainda é tímida. O objetivo deste trabalho é contribuir com a pesquisa sobre o tema, aplicando os principais modelos de avaliação de performance a fim de averiguar o desempenho dos fundos de investimento brasileiros, bem como verificar quais variáveis afetam os seus retornos, qual a modalidade de gestão que proporciona maior retorno, qual o benchmark mais atraente e verificar se há influência do efeito tamanho e da habilidade do gestor. Primeiramente, foi construído um referencial teórico com base nos principais estudos internacionais e nacionais, com o objetivo de apresentar conceitos básicos que envolvem o assunto e fundamentar a utilização dos modelos, além de viabilizar a comparação com resultados encontrados por trabalhos anteriores. O referencial teórico busca também situar o leitor dentro de uma perspectiva histórica. Os dados empregados foram gentilmente cedidos pela Associação das Entidades dos Mercados Financeiros e de Capitais (ANBIMA) e passaram por procedimentos de filtragem, para excluir fundos com poucas observações, e mesclagem, com o objetivo de agregar séries advindas de outras fontes, para finalmente criar as variáveis que foram utilizadas. Os dados referem-se a fundos de gestão ativa e passiva cujos benchmarks são o Ibovespa, o IBrX e o ISE. Os modelos e variáveis utilizados serão determinados no capítulo de metodologia. O capítulo de resultados inicia com as estatísticas descritivas acerca dos dados utilizados e posteriormente traz os frutos da aplicação dos modelos trabalhados no referencial teórico, os quais são os índices de desempenho, o modelo CAPM, os modelos que incorporam os momentos superiores, o modelo APT e o modelo que verifica o efeito tamanho, além da comparação entre os diferentes benchmarks e tipos de gestão. A apreciação dos resultados originou as conclusões, demonstrando que os todos os índices de desempenho apresentam resultados similares, os quais apontam que os fundos de gestão passiva cujo benchmark é o IBrX tem retorno superior. Os modelos que incluem a co-assimetria e a co-curtose no modelo CAPM são relevantes, mas verifica-se que utilizar unicamente a co-assimetria pode ser mais interessante do que usar conjuntamente a co-curtose. O modelo APT prova que variáveis macroeconômicas são significativas para explicar os retornos dos fundos, trazendo a surpresa de que a produção industrial tem relação negativa com tais retornos. Não foram encontradas evidências de que o tamanho do patrimônio líquido dos fundos afete seu resultado financeiro e a análise dos fundos cujo benchmark é o ISE deixa claro que os investimentos considerados sustentáveis geram retornos inferiores aos demais.

[pt] Este trabalho analisa os Fundos Referenciados ao Dólar no Brasil no período de julho/2000 a junho/2001. Foram especificamente selecionados os fundos disponíveis ao público de varejo. Dentro do tema tratado, foi discutida a questão do cupom cambial brasileiro e das suas variações nos negócios realizados com os ativos disponíveis no mercado - o cupom - sujo - e o cupom - limpo -. O principal objetivo da pesquisa foi o de identificar diferentes grupamentos na população dos fundos estudada. Para tanto, foram analisados os aspectos variáveis mercadológicas e variáveis financeiras para cada fundo. Dentre as variáveis mercadológicas foram tratadas taxa de administração, requisitos de aplicação mínima inicial, patrimônio líquido, regime de negociação de cotas e tipo de cota.No que diz respeito às variáveis financeiras foram identificados e avaliados o benchmark, as relações de desempenho através do Índice de Sharpe e Retorno Diferencial sobre o Sigma e foram feitas comparações entre os indicadores de retorno e risco das cotas em dólar com o cenário do cupom de mercado no período. / [en] The object of this study were the Investment Funds Indexed to the Dollar available to the general investor in the Brazilian market, from July/2000 to June/2001. In order to analyse their behaviour, the study discussed the theoretical background of the return rate curve for dollar related assets in Brazil and how it impacts their negotiations, by producing two different terms - the -clean- rate and the -dirty- rate. The main goal of the research was to find out if the funds could be separated into different clusters. In order to achieve this, two different aspects of the funds were studied - marketing and financial. Their marketing characteristics dealt with fees, minimum investment requirements, relevant day for the NAVPS and NAVPS availability. The financial characteristics were approached by their return and risk, benchmark and performance index analysis - thru the Sharpe Index and the Differential Return over the Sigma. The return and risk obtained for the funds were also compared to the return and risk observed in the domestic curve of the Brazilian risk up to 720 days.

The aim of this master's thesis is the analysis of the structural and investment funds of the European Union for the development of tourism in the Czech Republic. The aim is to clearly and concisely acquaint the reader with an analysis of the disbursement of funds in the programming periods 2004-2006 and 2007-2013 and its impacts success. The thesis is divided into four chapters. The first chapter is devoted to tourism policy, the second is devoted to issue of European Union funds. The third chapter analyses the position of tourism and tourism policy in the European Union and the impact of joining the European Union on the Czech Republic. The last chapter is devoted to analysis of the use of EU funds in tourism sector and evaluation of its success in the Czech Republic.

Thesis deals with the collective investment in the Czech Republic and Austria. The first part describes the collective investment in general, advantages and disadvantages, subjects and risks associated with this form of investment. Thesis also deals with current regulatory issues of investment funds in the European Union. Next two parts are focused on the history, subjects and legal framework of the collective investment in each country. Final part compares both countries and presents the process of selecting a suitable fund with the focus on the final return for individual investor.

The purpose of this diploma thesis is to comprehensively describe the legal regulation of alternative investment funds in the Czech Republic. The diploma thesis is divided into seven parts. The first part deals with the definition of alternative investment funds. The aim of this section is to explain the EU legislation (acceptance and implementation of AIFMD). This part is continuously followed by the second part, which covers the current legislation of the Czech Republic. A part of this section is also a detailed description of the material scope of the Act on Investment Companies and Investment Funds. The third part is devoted to selected legal forms of alternative investment funds according to ZISIF. These are primarily a unit trust, a trust fund, a limited partnership for investment certificates (SICAR) and a joint-stock company with variable capital. The fourth part contains the definition of individual entities ensuring selected activities of the fund. In this section, a description of the person of a manager, administrator, depositary or a main sponsor is available, including a list of binding rules concerning their activities. An integral part of these chapters is also the definition of the position of individual subjects in relation to each other, i.e. the scope of their rights and...

Målet med denna rapport är att undersöka vad bolånefonder är, och hur de skiljer sig mot säkerställda obligationer. Avgränsningar görs till att endast ta upp svenska aktörer, och framförallt bostadskreditinstitutet Stabelo. Arbetet baseras på en kvalitativ metod där skillnader i säkerhet för bolånen, finansieringsstruktur, risk, avkastning samt tillsyn, kapitalkrav och riskhantering analyseras genom att bland annat studera bankers och bostadskreditinstitutet Stabelos belåningsgrad och avkastningskurvor. Skillnaderna mellan de två finansieringsformerna är, sett till vad de åstadkommer, inte stora. En slutsats är däremot att det finns en väsentlig skillnad i hur finansieringssätten är strukturerade, och att denna skillnad kan attrahera olika investerare. / The goal with this bachelor thesis is to examine what an alternative investment fund is, and how it differs from covered bonds. The report is limited to only covering Swedish market participants, and therein especially the alternative investment fund by Stabelo. The report takes a qualitative approach, where differences in financing structure, risk, yield as well as governance, capital requirement and risk management are being analysed, through studying the yield and underlying loan-to-value of banks and Stabelo. The differences between the two forms of financing, in the perspective of what they accomplish, are not immense. However, a major conclusion is that the difference lies in the way they are structured, and that this difference might suits different investors.

Feminist research as well as the growing field of ‘Men and Masculinities’ have identified how targeting women and excluding men from development initiatives could have unintended repercussions. As a common tool for development, microfinance is a fitting representation for this emphasis on women. At the same time, Microfinance Investment Funds (MFIFs) have emerged as established actors within the microfinance landscape, and their potential to shape microfinance approaches has been highlighted within literature. This thesis builds upon this previous research to delve into the discourses of MFIFs concerning men and masculinities within the context of microfinance initiatives. Using a theoretical framework that intersects models of empowerment and hegemonic masculinity, the thesis explores the extent to which MFIF discourses incorporate men and masculinities, as well as attempting to explain the presence or absence of these discourses. An analysis reveals that there is mixed alignment with models of empowerment and a lack of discussions concerning men and masculinities.