The Black Box of Mutual Fund Fees

This paper re-examines the determinants of mutual fund fees paid by mutual fund shareholders for management costs and other expenses. There are two novelties with respect to previous studies. First, each type of fee is explained separately. Second, the paper employs a new dataset consisting of Spanish mutual funds, making it the second paper to study mutual fund fees outside the US market. Furthermore, the Spanish market has three interesting characteristics: (i) both distribution and management are highly dominated by banks and savings banks, which points towards potential conflicts of interest; (ii) Spanish mutual fund law imposes caps on all types of fees; and (iii) Spain ranks first in terms of average mutual fund fees among similar countries. We find significant differences in mutual fund fees not explained by the fund’s investment objective. For instance, management companies owned by banks and savings banks charge higher management fees and redemption fees to nonguaranteed funds. Also, investors in older non-guaranteed funds and non-guaranteed funds with a lower average investment are more likely to end up paying higher management fees. Moreover, there is clear evidence that some mutual funds enjoy better conditions from custodial institutions than others. In contrast to evidence from the US market, larger funds are not associated with lower fees, but with higher custody fees for guaranteed funds and higher redemption fees for both types of funds. Finally, fee-setting by mutual funds is not related to fund before-fee performance.

A dynamic CGE modelling approach for analyzing trade-offs in climate change policy options: the case of Green Climate Fund

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La fiscalidad de las cooperativas. Un modelo que fortalece los fondos propios

[ES] Las cooperativas son un modelo de empresa que tiene unas características particulares, entre las que destacan la distribución y el ejercicio del poder, la manera particular de distribución de resultados, la existencia de unos fondos obligatorios, la autoregulación del régimen de trabajo, el procedimiento de atribución de fondos económicos en el momento de la baja de un socio, y la participación de los asalariados en los resultados económicos positivos.

La inversión socialmente responsable en los fondos de pensiones y en las EPSV de empleo

Máster en Dirección Empresarial desde la Innovación y la internacionalización. Curso 2013/2014

Warsaw Conference: “Small steps forward while awaiting major decisions at the 2015 Paris Conference”

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La Cumbre de Varsovia: “Pequeños avances en espera de decisiones de envergadura en la Cumbre de Paris 2015”

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International Climate Finance and its Influence on Fairness and Policy

27 p.

Fundamentos de la construcción del pensamiento sociológico de Émile Durkheim

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Mercados Financieros: ¿eficientes o irracionales?

[EN]When we talk about financial markets, we usually talk about falls or rises occurring in them, the earnings of enterprises and their strategic plans... Throughout history a lot of theories and studies have been carried out on them, being the Theory of Efficiency the most one accepted nowadays. But in all of this, there is a great forgotten that is not usually taken into account and that is an important factor, if not the most, in the markets, which is none other than humans. The work is based on the confrontation, practical and theoretical, between the Theory of Efficiency on financial markets and the Theory of Behavioral Finance, with the objective of generating samples in order to see if markets are efficient or irrational. After all, decisions of buying or selling, to acquire a fund or bonds are held by humans. Therefore, in the effort to understand financial markets, understanding human psychology is something essential. Inglés

El fondo de reserva de la seguridad social

El objetivo del presente trabajo es analizar y explicar el funcionamiento del Fondo de Reserva de la seguridad social. Para ello se describen tanto los precedentes directos como indirectos de dicho fondo para posteriormente proceder a explicar la normativa jurídica referente al fondo, los criterios de inversión y materialización de los activos de dicho fondo y evolución de diferentes aspectos cuantitativos del Fondo. Esto nos permitirá enmarcarlo dentro de un conjunto de Fondos de Reserva Europeos para poder apreciar las diferentes formas de gestionar dichos Fondos, los cuales se erigen de vital importancia para la sostenibilidad del sistema de la seguridad social. Por último, se llevará a cabo una sencilla estimación partiendo de unas hipótesis realistas que nos permitirá conocer hasta cuando dará de si el Fondo de Reserva en caso de seguir recurriendo a este como se ha venido haciendo en los últimos años.