This study explores whether Colombian mutual funds deliver abnormal risk-adjusted returns and delves on their persistence. Through traditional and downside risk measures based on Modern Portfolio Theory and Lower Partial Moments, this article evaluates the performance of 146 mutual funds categorized by investment type and fund manager. This assessment suggests that mutual funds underperform the market and deliver real returns. Similarly, bond funds underperform equity funds, and investment trusts underperform brokerage firms as managers. Furthermore, bond funds and funds managed by investment trusts exhibit short-term performance persistence. These results suggest that investors may pursue passive investment strategies, and that they must analyze past performance to invest in the short-term.
Para citar este artículo / To cite thisArticle Caviedes Conde, A. A., Macías Joven, M. T. (Enero-Junio de 2017). Reflexiones sobre el sentido actual de la integración económica.Revista Gestión y Desarrollo Libre, 2(3), (125-137).
ResumenEl trabajo pretende mostrar la evolución del concepto de integración económica en la actualidad. Originalmente (siglo XIX) se limitaba a la integración comercial especialmente a los fenómenos de libre comercio y protección.La evolución de las economías del siglo XX ha ido elaborando conceptos que forman una familia relacionada con la integración económica. Así se han puesto de relieve aspectos relacionados con el regionalismo, con la ampliación de las materias que se incluyen en los Acuerdos y en la globalización.
AbstractThis paper studies the evolution of the concept of economics integration in
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