Conditioning information in mutual fund performance evaluation: Portuguese evidence

We estimate and compare the performance of Portuguese-based mutual funds that invest in the domestic market and in the European market using unconditional and conditional models of performance evaluation. Besides applying both partial and full conditional models, we use European information variables, instead of the most common local ones, and consider stochastically detrended conditional variables in order to avoid spurious regressions. The results suggest that mutual fund managers are not able to outperform the market, presenting negative or neutral performance. The incorporation of conditioning information in performance evaluation models is supported by our findings, as it improves the explanatory power of the models and there is evidence of both time-varying betas and alphas related to the public information variables. It is also shown that the number of lags to be used in the stochastic detrending procedure is a critical choice, as it will impact the significance of the conditioning information. In addition, we observe a distance effect, since managers who invest locally seem to outperform those who invest in the European market. However, after controlling for public information, this effect is slightly reduced. Furthermore, the results suggest that survivorship bias has a small impact on performance estimates.

Anotação ao Acórdão do Supremo Tribunal de Justiça (Português), de 25 de Janeiro de 2011 - o contrato de franquia e a resolução

Resumo: 1 – Sumário do Acórdão do Supremo Tribunal de Justiça, de 25 de Janeiro de 2011; 2 – Texto completo do Acórdão do Supremo Tribunal de Justiça, de 25 de Janeiro de 2011, Juiz Conselheiro Garcia CALEJO (Relator), Juiz Conselheiro Hélder ROQUE e Juiz Conselheiro Sebastião PÓVOAS: cfr. http://www.dgsi.pt , 21 de Abril de 2011; 3 – Anotação; 3.1 – Introdução à anotação; 3.2 – A questão da resolução em termos gerais; 3.3 – A questão da resolução no «contrato atípico de franquia»; 4 – Conclusões; § Abstract: 1 - Summary of the Sentence of the Supreme Court of Justice, 25 of January of 2011; 2 - Complete text of the Sentence of the Supreme Court of Justice, 25 of January of 2011, Advising Judge Garcia CALEJO (Reporter), Advising Judge Hélder ROQUE and Advising Juiz Sebastião PÓVOAS: cfr. http://www.dgsi.pt , 21 of April of 2011; 3 - Notation; 3.1 - Introduction to the notation; 3.2 - The question of the resolution in general terms; 3.3 - The question of the resolution in the «atypical contract of franshise»; 4 - Conclusions;

Lições de Direito dos Contratos

1 – Importância e actualidade do instituto. 2 – Noção de contrato. Sua disciplina no Código Civil. 3 – Relações contratuais de facto. 4 – Princípios fundamentais do regime dos contratos. 5 – Princípio da liberdade contratual. 6 – Princípio do consensualismo. 7 – Princípio da boa fé. A responsabilidade pré-contratual. 8 – Princípio da força vinculativa. 9 – Contratos unilaterais ou não sinalagmáticos e bilaterais ou sinalagmáticos. Contratos gratuitos e onerosos. Contratos cumulativos e aleatórios. 10 – Contratos mistos. União de contratos ou coligação de contratos. 11 – Contrato-promessa. 12 – Pacto de preferência. 13 - Alguns problemas e “contratos em especial”, a título enunciativo, relacionados com as actividades de Gestão, Banca e Seguros: “aspectos contratuais” de direito civil e de direito comercial. § 1 - Importance and actuality of the institute. 2 - Contract notion. Its disciplines in the portuguese Civil Code. 3 – Contractual relations of fact. 4 - Basic principles of the regimen of contracts. 5 - Principle of the contractual freedom. 6 - Principle of “consensualism”. 7 - Principle of the "good faith". The pre-contractual liability. 8 - Principle of the obligatory force (binding). 9 - Unilateral or not bilateral contracts. Free and onerous contracts. Cumulative and random contracts.

Anotação ao Acórdão do Supremo Tribunal de Justiça (Português), de 25 de Janeiro de 2011 - a resolução e o contrato de franquia

É importante chamar a atenção das possíveis diferenças entre o contrato de franquia e o contrato de agência no que diz respeito também ao problema da resolução em termos mais gerais ou em termos mais concretos; 1 – Sumário do Acórdão do Supremo Tribunal de Justiça, de 25 de Janeiro de 2011; 2 – Texto completo do Acórdão do Supremo Tribunal de Justiça, de 25 de Janeiro de 2011, Juiz Conselheiro Garcia CALEJO (Relator), Juiz Conselheiro Hélder ROQUE e Juiz Conselheiro Sebastião PÓVOAS: cfr. http://www.dgsi.pt , 21 de Abril de 2011; 3 – Anotação; 3.1 – Introdução à anotação; 3.2 – A questão da resolução em termos gerais; 3.3 – A questão da resolução no «contrato atípico de franquia»; 4 – Conclusões; Abstract: is important to draw attention to potential differences between the franchise agreement and agency agreement with regard also to the resolution problem in more general terms or in more concrete terms; 1 - Summary of the Sentence of the Supreme Court of Justice, 25 of January of 2011; 2 - Complete text of the Sentence of the Supreme Court of Justice, 25 of January of 2011, Advising Judge Garcia CALEJO (Reporter), Advising Judge Hélder ROQUE and Advising Juiz Sebastião PÓVOAS: cfr. http://www.dgsi.pt , 21 of April of 2011; 3 - Notation; 3.1 - Introduction to the notation; 3.2 - The question of the resolution in general terms; 3.3 - The question of the resolution in the «atypical contract of franshise»; 4 - Conclusions;

Anotação ao Acórdão do Supremo Tribunal de Justiça (Português), de 25 de Janeiro de 2011 - a resolução e o contrato de franquia

is important to draw attention to potential differences between the franchise agreement and agency agreement with regard also to the resolution problem in more general terms or in more concrete terms; 1 - Summary of the Sentence of the Supreme Court of Justice, 25 of January of 2011; 2 - Complete text of the Sentence of the Supreme Court of Justice, 25 of January of 2011, Advising Judge Garcia CALEJO (Reporter), Advising Judge Hélder ROQUE and Advising Juiz Sebastião PÓVOAS: cfr. http://www.dgsi.pt , 21 of April of 2011; 3 - Notation; 3.1 - Introduction to the notation; 3.2 - The question of the resolution in general terms; 3.3 - The question of the resolution in the «atypical contract of franshise»; 4 - Conclusions;