The return dynamics of Argentina's main stock index, the SP Mer.Val., show a high level of volatility, signaling a higher degree of downside risk. To hedge against that specific risk, investors could buy put options. However, the Argentinean capital markets lacks variety of hedging contracts....

A value investing strategy consists of purchasing stocks relatively undervalued to their funda-mental values and selling those relatively overvalued. Finding this kind of companies has been one of the most challenging goals for investors throughout the history. The main objective of this paper...

Unlike passive management, where investors almost do not buy and sell securities, active management involves a set of trading rules that govern investment decisions regarding mainly market timing. In this paper, we take the basics of active management and the two fund separation approach, to...

Conventional financial theory considers ex-ante that risk, generally measured by the volatility, has to be appropriately rewarded by expected returns. In modern financial markets, there are countless quantitative and systematic strategies which may test and eventually lead to excess returns when...

En el presente trabajo revisamos los principios de una popular estrategia de inversión basada en opciones financieras, en especial las opciones de venta (puts), y testeamos de manera estadística una estrategia de inversión basada en la compra venta de opciones de venta sobre un índice en el...

When analyzing options returns, most papers tend to focus on the expected and realized return from strategies where the investors are long on those financial instruments. We conduct a test searching for excess returns on passive options investment strategies resorting to a four factor model,...

The yield to maturity (YTM) or internal rate of return (IRR) is a metric used in financial analysis to estimate the profitability of potential investments. Almost all finance textbooks state the following conditioning assumptions: (i) that the coupon payments can be reinvested at a rate equal to...

El impuesto a los ingresos brutos actualmente no debería existir, al menos en su forma actual. Es un impuesto general al consumo, acumulativo y plurifásico que se superpone, en principio, en su base imponible con el impuesto al valor agregado (lo que significa cobrar dos impuestos sobre la...