From a financial perspective, this dissertation analyzes the Brazilian mutual fund industry performance for an average retail client. The most representative funds for the local population, that are the fixed income open-end ...

Behavioral Investing Biases are cognitive and emotional aspects that may intervene in investment decisions. In order to search for evidences of behavioral biases in the Investment Fund Managers (IFM) in Brazil, a survey ...

We investigate the determinants of the success of private equity/venture capital funds. We focus specially on a Brazilian idiosyncrasy: the participation of limited partners in the investment process through investment ...

The objective of this article is to perform a diagnostic study with a focus on pre- investment phase processes in the province of Holguín, Cuba, comparing it with other pre- investment sub-processes in Latin America. For ...

This study presents an alternative investment projection model to estimate the future values of Private Equity (PE) investments. The performance of PE investments is assessed by analyzing the risk-return relationship ...

This paper examines why the investment rates of Latin American countries have been so low, in comparison with those of the fast growing East Asian countries. First, the paper compare the private and public investment ratios ...