This paper compares the performance results of Spanish mutual fund managers and the market timing results obtained using traditional measures and those obtained using measures that consider time variations in returns and risks by incorporating macroeconomic variables representative of Spanish...

This paper aims to study the different models of implementing the internet in financial brokerage, especially in trying to identify the main factors that explain the success of Bankinter in this area of business. Bankinter's position, with respect to the other financial entities in the Spanish...

This article provides evidence of a common bias found in traditional timing models, which is related with a negative correlation between timing and stock-picking abilities resulting in spurious coefficients. We consider as a possible cause for this bias the failure to include in the timing...

To our best knowledge, this study conducts the first analysis of the money market fund investors' response to the major Spanish fund company mergers from 1994 to 2004. By using an event date methodology considering three significant moments in the merger process: (1) Public announcement (2)...

The taxation of capital gains realized by European private investors in mutual funds must be analysed in order to detect distortions of competition of this relevant financial industry in the European Union. Using a contingency table methodology in different investment scenes, we detect that...

Past literature shows that tests of performance persistence do not agree in the most important mutual fund markets and so there is a need for further research in other smaller countries such as Spain, one of the biggest growth fund markets in Europe in the nineties. Spanish equity funds...

In this work, we evaluate the use of public and private information by Spanish fund managers by means of an analysis of their traditional and conditional performance. Furthermore, we repeat this analysis for various fund subsets compiling their different characteristics, which allows us to...

This is a study about how performance influences on the behaviour of investors in Spanish domestic equity funds over an eight-year period. This is a broad timeframe given the relative immaturity of this market when compared to other more developed markets such as the American or English, among...