This paper analyzes how fund flows react to past performance in the dynamic Brazilian equity fund market over the period 2001 to 2012. The study also tests for a "smart money" effect (Zheng, 1999), or whether funds that receive more money subsequently outperform those that receive less money. We...

Purpose - This article examines whether deviations from fundamental value or closed-end country fund's discounts or premiums forecast future share price returns or net asset returns. Design/methodology/approach - The main empirical (econometric) tool is a vector autoregressive (VAR) model. The...

We examine performance persistence in the large and growing Brazilian equity fund market from 2000 to 2012. We find a significant risk-adjusted spread between a portfolio of top- and bottom-performing funds, which supports the idea that performance persists. This spread remains after controlling...