Are mutual funds in securities and income taxes a suitable alternative for investment? Has the attempt to simplify the system of income taxes had an adverse impact on taxpayers?Throughout the following article, the author will answer the questions noted above.Therefore, he stresses the importance of protecting the taxpayers, so that they will not be affected by the tax regime. He also notes the necessity of this to happen in order forthe mutual funds to stay as a ideal vehicle for investment. / ¿Los fondos mutuos de inversión en valores e Impuesto a la Renta son, acaso, una alternativa idónea para la inversión? ¿El intento desimplificar el régimen del Impuesto a la Renta ha tenido consecuencias perjudiciales para los contribuyentes? A lo largo del siguiente artículo, el autor remarca la importancia de proteger a los contribuyentes, de modo que éstos no se vean perjudicados por el régimen aplicable. De ello depende que los fondos mutuos sigan siendo un vehículo idóneo para la inversión.

nÃo hà / O presente trabalho busca analisar, empiricamente, o comportamento do modelo de mensuraÃÃo de risco de mercado Value-at-Risk â VaR em sua interpretaÃÃo paramÃtrica gaussiana incondicional e extensÃes que regulam as violaÃÃes sobre a nÃo normalidade e a heterocedasticidade dos retornos diÃrios dos fundos de investimentos em AÃÃes, das treze maiores instituiÃÃes financeiras residentes no Brasil, durante o perÃodo de janeiro/06 a dezembro/12. Para uma melhor avaliaÃÃo dos dados, buscou-se, inicialmente, modelar a evoluÃÃo condicional do risco e ajustar a idiossincrasia estatÃstica das sÃries temporais das treze tesourarias, utilizando distribuiÃÃes de probabilidade que mais se adaptassem à anÃlise dos modelos. Os resultados obtidos com esses modelos sÃo analisados à luz do teste para proporÃÃo de falhas proposto por Kupiec (1995) e Chisttoffersen (1998). A pesquisa ainda apresenta, com exemplos grÃficos, uma anÃlise de desempenho Risco â Retorno dos treze bancos utilizando a metodologia proposta por Balzer. / This study aims to examine empirically the behavior of the model for measuring market risk Value at Risk - VaR in its parametric interpretation unconditional Gaussian and extensions that regulate violations on heteroscedasticity and non-normality of daily returns of investment funds Actions, of the thirteen largest financial institutions resident in Brazil, during the January/06 dezembro/12. For a better evaluation of the data, we sought to initially model the conditional evolution of risk and adjust the statistic al idiosyncrasy of temporal series of thirteen treasuries, using probability distributions that best adapt to the analysis of the models. The results obtained with the semodels are analyzed by the test failure rate proposed by Kupiec (1995) and Chisttoffersen (1998). The survey also shows, with graphic examples, a performance Risk - Return of the thirteen banks using the methodology proposed by Balzer.

Submitted by Timur Khalid Bokari (timur@bokari.de) on 2018-11-10T12:09:40Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Final_FGV.pdf: 1889839 bytes, checksum: 92c26b5dbe778b14335b5aed691a3d78 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Josineide da Silva Santos Locatelli (josineide.locatelli@fgv.br) on 2018-11-12T11:26:48Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 Final_FGV.pdf: 1889839 bytes, checksum: 92c26b5dbe778b14335b5aed691a3d78 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Isabele Garcia (isabele.garcia@fgv.br) on 2018-11-12T12:34:03Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 Final_FGV.pdf: 1889839 bytes, checksum: 92c26b5dbe778b14335b5aed691a3d78 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2018-11-12T12:34:03Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Final_FGV.pdf: 1889839 bytes, checksum: 92c26b5dbe778b14335b5aed691a3d78 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2018-10-16 / Esta tese analisa o desempenho de fundos mútuos de ações de mercados emergentes durante o período de janeiro de 2005 a dezembro de 2017. O objetivo é preencher a lacuna metodológica da literatura de mercado desenvolvida presente em estudos recentes. Na primeira parte, a análise de performance demonstra que os alfas são positivos e estatisticamente significativos. Assim, encontro evidência de que os fundos mútuos geraram retornos anormais durante todo o período amostral, embora a análise por subperíodos produza resultados menos claros, havendo subperíodos em que os alfas são negativos ou positivos. Além disso, mostro que a relação de despesas, cargas front-end e back-end têm impactos negativos sobre os alfas, como esperado. Na segunda parte, a análise de persistência de performance mostra que os spreads entre os fundos com performance mais alta e mais baixa são positivos durante os diferentes períodos de investimento, em outras palavras, os fundos com melhor performance continuam superando seus pares inferiores nos períodos subsequentes. Portanto, encontro evidências de persistência de performance em períodos de investimento de até um ano. Os resultados também mostram que mesmo os fundos com performance mais baixa foram, em média, capazes de gerar alfas positivos ao longo de diferentes períodos de espera. / This thesis analyzes the performance of emerging markets equity mutual funds during the period from January 2005 until December 2017. The main objective is to fill the existing methodological gap between the literatures on developed markets and emerging markets funds. In the first part, I analyze fund performance and show that alphas are positive statistically significant on average. Thus, I find evidence that mutual funds generated abnormal returns over the entire sample period, yet the sub-period analysis shows there have been periods of positive and negative significant alphas. In addition, I show that the expense ratio, front-end, and back-end loadings have negative impacts on alphas as expected. In the second part, the performance persistence analysis shows that spreads between the top and bottom performing funds are positive throughout different holding periods. In other words, better performing funds keep outperforming their bottom peers in subsequent periods. Hence, I find evidence for performance persistence across holding periods of up to one year. The results also show that even bottom performing funds were on average able to generate positive alphas throughout different holding periods.

O ato de investir recursos vem se tornando uma tarefa que exige cada vez mais atenção por parte dos investidores. As alternativas de investimento vêm aumentando, oferecendo aos investidores muitas opções em termos de risco, retorno e liquidez. Uma dessas alternativas é o fundo de investimento, uma indústria cujo patrimônio tem crescido muito ao longo do tempo. Atualmente, há mais de R$ 200 bilhões aplicados nas diversas modalidades de fundos oferecidos pelas instituições administradoras de recursos. Escolher qual fundo investir não é tarefa simples, nem mesmo para grandes investidores. As alternativas são inúmeras e as informações nem sempre estão facilmente disponíveis. Oferecer um método que possibilite avaliar e classificar fundos de investimento é o objetivo maior deste trabalho. Busca-se, aqui, um método que contemple, além de variáveis quantitativas, variáveis qualitativas, bem como aspectos relacionados à instituição administradora do fundo. Para alcançar tal objetivo, desenvolveu-se a pesquisa em duas etapas. Na primeira, foram levantadas e agrupadas, através de pesquisa bibliográfica, as variáveis que poderiam vir a fazer parte do método. A segunda etapa foi dedicada à obtenção da ponderação que cada variável e grupo de variável deveria ter no método. Para tanto, foi realizada uma pesquisa de campo junto a determinados grupos de investidores e consultores. O resultado permite que um avaliador dê notas às variáveis e, seguindo o método, obtenha uma nota final para o fundo de investimento analisado. Por fim, sugere-se um modo de classificação de fundos de investimento que procura ser de fácil entendimento, mesmo para aqueles investidores que não são especialistas em mercado financeiro. / Investing money has becoming a task that demands always more attention by investors. Investment alternatives has been growing, offering investors many options in terms of risk, return and liquidity. One of these alternatives is mutual fund, an industry whose assets have been growing a lot during the last years. Nowadays, there are more than R$ 200 billions invested in mutual funds, offered by asset managers. Choosing a fund to invest is not a simple task, even for main investors. There are many alternatives and information is not easily available. Offering a method that permits evaluate and rate mutual funds is the main purpose of this research. This method includes quantitative and qualitative variables, as well as aspects related to its asset manager. To attain this objective, this research was developed in two steps. Firstly, it was selected variables that could be part of the method, by bibliographic search. Secondly, it was obtained weights for both the variables and their group. This goal was achieved through a questionnaire sent to specific investors and consultants. The final result permits an analyst to give a grade to each variable and, using the method, to obtain a final classification for the analyzed fund. This dissertation suggests also a method for ranking mutual funds which intents to be easily comprehended, even to those investors that are not specialized in investment market.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-03-15T19:30:42Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Marcelo de Jesus.pdf: 753815 bytes, checksum: 4b3631ad6c0a3a4e6928e2b70685850d (MD5) Previous issue date: 2011-02-01 / This study investigates, for the period between 2002 and 2009, what is the impact of luck on the performance of stocks mutual funds managers with active management in Brazil to surpass its benchmark. To that purpose, we used a new method, the False Discovery Rate approach - FDR to empirically test those impact. To measure precisely luck and unluck, ig, the frequency of false positives (Type I errors) in the tails of the cross-section of the tdistribution associated with the alphas of funds in the sample, this new approach was applied to measure the skills of grouped shape managers of stock funds with active management in Brazil. The FDR approach offers a simple and objective method to estimate the proportion of skilled funds (with a positive alpha), alpha-zero funds, and unskilled funds (with a negative alpha) across the population. Applying the FDR technique, it was found as a result of research that the majority of funds were alpha-zero, then no truly skilled funds, and only a small proportion of truly skilled funds. / Esta pesquisa investiga, para o período entre 2002 e 2009, qual o impacto da sorte na performance dos gestores de fundos de investimentos em ações com gestão ativa no Brasil que superam o seu benchmark. Para tanto, foi usado um novo método, a abordagem False Discovery Rate - FDR para testar empiricamente esse impacto. Para mensurar precisamente sorte e azar, ou seja, a freqüência de falsos positivos (erros do tipo I) nas caudas do crosssection da distribuição t associadas aos alfas dos fundos da amostra, foi aplicada essa nova abordagem para mensurar de forma agrupada a habilidade dos gestores de fundos de ações com gestão ativa no Brasil. A abordagem FDR oferece um método simples e objetivo para estimar a proporção de fundos habilidosos (com um alfa positivo), fundos de alfa-zero, e fundos não habilidosos (com um alfa negativo) em toda a população. Aplicando-se a técnica FDR, encontrou-se como resultado da pesquisa que a maioria dos fundos foram alfa-zero, seguida pelos fundos verdadeiramente não habilidosos, e apenas uma pequena proporção de fundos verdadeiramente habilidosos.

Submitted by Abraham Weintraub (abrahambvw@gmail.com) on 2013-11-06T19:22:30Z No. of bitstreams: 1 AbrahamWeintraub_dissertação_MPA.pdf: 887510 bytes, checksum: 3bf28f60e8c4bf117132d0e01e958f40 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Vera Lúcia Mourão (vera.mourao@fgv.br) on 2013-11-06T19:31:25Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 AbrahamWeintraub_dissertação_MPA.pdf: 887510 bytes, checksum: 3bf28f60e8c4bf117132d0e01e958f40 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2013-11-06T20:01:43Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 AbrahamWeintraub_dissertação_MPA.pdf: 887510 bytes, checksum: 3bf28f60e8c4bf117132d0e01e958f40 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2013-10-30 / From a financial perspective, this dissertation analyzes the Brazilian mutual fund industry performance for an average retail client. The most representative funds for the local population, that are the fixed income open-end ones, will be selected and their performance will be measured aiming to answer if clients of this industry obtained a proper return over their investments in the period between August 2010 and August 2013. A proper return will be understood as the preservation of the purchasing power of the individual´s savings, what is achieved with a positive performance of a mutual fund after discounting taxes, administrative fees and inflation. After obtaining an answer for the previous question, this dissertation will explore a possible alternative solution: Tesouro Direto, that is an example of a financial approach that could foster the disintermediation between savings and investments through electronic channels. New electronic platforms, with a broader scope, could be utilized to increase the efficiency of funding productive investments through better remunerating Brazilian savings. Tesouro Direto may point towards a new paradigm.

This thesis presents a comparison of five commercially available products most commonly used by Czech households: a savings account, buildings savings, pension insurance, investment life insurance and mutual funds in terms of taxation. The aim of the work is an overview of the taxation of selected products for the general public in a concise form and show specific impacts on individual cases.

This thesis is focused mainly on performance measures of open-end mutual funds and analysis of selected funds with long track record (periods 1995-2013 or 2000-2013) available for individual investors in the Czech Republic. In the first part of the thesis, evolution of Czech collective investment business is described. Among traditional risk focused approaches, this thesis describes also less common approaches taking investors' psychology into account -- for example measurement of stress or net utility based on Loss Aversion theory. In the analytical part, the role of additional costs (e.g. entry fee or taxes) is emphasized as these additional costs are usually out of any consideration when measuring the performance. The results show that these additional costs may have significant impact on returns recorded by the investor. In the Czech asset management industry, we usually experience presentation of returns only -- without stress of risks or other factors, risk focused measurements are rarely displayed in funds' performance presentation.

This diploma thesis deals with the investment life insurance. Investment life insurance combines the classical life insurance and the investments in open-end mutual funds. It is a widely discussed financial product, especially for its high expensiveness. Nevertheless, the investment life insurance holds a significant share of the insurance market. The aim of this diploma thesis is the analysis and exploration of investment life insurance market in Czech Republic. The thesis consists of theoretical and practical part. In theoretical part the basic concepts of this insurance product are defined. Theoretical part further contains the theory related to time series analysis and the description of mutual funds. Practical part deals with the five most significant insurance companies in Czech Republic, compares various mutual funds and analyses the selected mutual fund in detail. The forecast of selected mutual fund price development was performed. It turned out that the price forecasting is complicated because of variety of factors affecting the price behaviour. Further, the calculations of insurance premiums and technical provisions were performed. MS Excel was used for the calculations and the time series analysis was performed using the statistical software Eviews. Diploma thesis assists the readers with the orientation in the investment life insurance problematics.

This thesis is focused on the analysis of performance of chosen russian mutual funds on the basis of achieved yield and risk. After short introduction to the russian market of mutual funds, the paper deals with a theoretical background underlying the performance indicators. Risk perception and following construction of indicators are discussed in detail from the perspective of modern and post-modern portfolio theory. The indicators are interpreted and appropriateness of their application is assessed. The analytic part is devoted to the application of discussed methods on 10 open-ended equity mutual funds. Based on the result, the funds are compared with each other and with selected market index.