Fonds mutuel

Au Canada et aux États-Unis, un fonds mutuel est un fonds de placement réunissant l'argent de plusieurs investisseurs. Principes de fonctionnement Les administrateurs du fonds doivent administrer l'argent selon un document décrivant comment l'argent sera placé. Par exemple, un fonds d'obligations canadiennes devra placer l'argent uniquement dans ce genre d'obligations. La description du fonds spécifie généralement des pourcentages qui doivent être maintenus selon les types de titres. Par exemple, un fonds pourrait avoir 20 % d'obligations du gouvernement canadien, 40 % d'obligations de compagnies canadiennes et 40 % d'actions de compagnies canadiennes. Notes et références Liens externes * * * Catégorie:Gestion d'actifs Catégorie:Mutualité Catégorie:Service financier

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This thesis is composed of two essays that study the effectiveness of shareholder democracy. In the first essay, I analyze the firm value implications of shareholder-initiated proposals. I show that managerial resistance precludes half of shareholder-initiated proposals from reaching the ballot stage. I construct a novel dataset of excluded and withdrawn proposals from the Securities and Exchange Commission's responses to managers' exclusion requests. An examination of announcement returns to the exclusion and withdrawal decisions reveals that non-voted proposals have a value-destroying nature. Special interest investors pursuing self-serving agendas and retail investors advocating for one-size-fits-all reforms explain the harmful character of non-voted proposals. I correct for the selection bias induced by managerial resistance and show that focusing only on voted proposals overstates the shareholder proposals-driven value creation. In the second essay, I study the impact of mutuals funds' environmental, social, and governance (ESG) preferences on portfolio firms. I construct measures of mutual funds' ESG preferences from their proxy voting guidelines in which mutual funds announce how they generally vote on the different ballot items at the shareholder meetings of their portfolio firms. I manually collect 17,000 of these voting policies for a sample of 29 of the largest U.S. mutual fund families over 2006-2018. I find that voting policies are a major predictor of funds' voting behavior. Exploiting staggered changes in funds' voting policies as an instrument, I show that investee companies adopt their mutual fund shareholders' preferred governance provisions. This adoption is the result of mutual fund shareholders' active voting. Announced voting policies also stimulate strategic proposal submissions by non-mutual fund shareholders.

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Pension funds only quite recently have explored alternative assets, prodded by financial crises that devastated equity returns and led to low bond returns. We assess the addition of alternative assets to pension fund portfolios in terms of the total benefit derived from diversification, addition of positive skewness, and the elimination of left tails in returns. During 1994-2012, adding portfolios of hedge funds produced significantly higher total benefits than adding real estate, commodities, foreign equities, mutual funds, funds of funds, as well as some counter cyclical and non-cyclical assets. Conditioning on past total benefits improves the out-of sample performance even further. (C) 2016 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

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Mutual fund portfolio choice in the presence of dynamic ﬂows

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We analyze the implications of dynamic flows on a mutual fund's portfolio decisions. In our model, myopic investors dynamically allocate capital between a riskless asset and an actively managed fund which charges fraction-of-fund fees. The presence of dynamic flows induces "flow hedging" portfolio distortions on the part of the fund, even though investors are myopic. Our model predicts a positive relationship between a fund's proportional fee rate and its volatility. This is a consequence of higher-fee funds holding more extreme equity positions. Although both the fund portfolio and investors' trading strategies depend on the proportional fee rate, the equilibrium value functions do not. Finally, we show that our results hold even if investors are allowed to directly trade some of the risky securities.

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