OBJECTIVES This research aimed to verify the performance of the Volatility Timing (VT) and Reward to Risk Timing (RRT) models of portfolio selection when compared with the Naïve and Mean-Variance ones, applied to the Brazilian stock market.METHODOLOGYThe methodology consists in applying the VT,...

This paper analyzes the effect of investor monitoring on the performance of equity investment funds. For that purpose, we analyze the relationship between fund performance, measured using four-factor Alpha, and a set of control variables and monitoring proxy variables. We used monthly data for...

This study aims to identify whether a relationship exists between the controlling shareholders' voting power and outside directors' effectiveness in maximizing firms' financial performance. We analyze a panel data with 3057 observations for the 2000–2012 period using a random effects model,...

The aim of this research was to identify the determinants of the development of the fixed income mutual funds in Brazil through the study of net money flows, from February 1995 to September 2004. The data were analyzed by multiple regression analysis of monthly series. Looking for robustness of...