This paper contains the statistics of the Equity Premium or Market Risk Premium (MRP) used in 2012 for 82 countries. We got answers for 93 countries, but we only report the results for 82 countries with more than 5 answers.Most previous surveys have been interested in the Expected MRP, but this...

Spanish Abstract: Este documento resume 1.502 respuestas a una encuesta por realizada a directivos de empresas, a analistas y a profesores de universidad. Los resultados más relevantes de la encuesta son: gran dispersión de las repuestas (los profesores utilizan primas entre 3 y 8%, los...

In the period 1991-2010, the S&P 500 destroyed value for the shareholders ($4.5 trillion). In 1991-1999 it created value ($5.1 trillion), but in 2000-2010 it destroyed $9.6 trillion. The market value of the S&P 500 was $2.8 trillion in 1991 and $11.4 trillion in 2010.We also calculate the...

This paper contains the statistics of the Equity Premium or Market Risk Premium (MRP) used in 2011 for 56 countries. We got answers for 85 countries, but we only report the results for 56 countries with more than 6 answers. Most previous surveys have been interested in the Expected MRP, but this...

The average Equity Premium or Market Risk Premium (MRP) used in 2011 by professors for the USA (5.7%) is higher than the one used by analysts (5.0%) and companies (5.6%). The standard deviation of the MRP used in 2011 by analysts (1.1%) is lower than the ones of companies (2.0%) and professors...

This paper contains the statistics of the Equity Premium or Market Risk Premium (MRP) used in 2011 for 56 countries. We got answers for 85 countries, but we only report the results for 56 countries with more than 6 answers.Most previous surveys have been interested in the Expected MRP, but this...

The average Market Risk Premium (MRP) used in 2011 by professors for the USA (5.7%) is higher than the one used by analysts (5.0%) and companies (5.6%). The standard deviation of the MRP used in 2011 by analysts (1.1%) is lower than the ones of companies (2.0%) and professors (1.6%). Most...

English Abstract: During the last 10 years (2001-2011), the average return of the mutual funds in Spain (1.3%) was smaller than the average inflation. Nevertheless, on December 31, 2011, 4.9 million investors had 128 billion euros in the 2,471 existing mutual funds. Only 1 of the 368 mutual...

English Abstract: During the last 10 years, the average return of the pension funds in Spain was lower than the inflation and than the return of Government Bonds. Only 2 funds (out of 532) had a return higher than the return of Government Bonds. Nevertheless, on December 31, 2011, 5.1 million...