The paper explains why an issuer may wish to raise external capital by selling multiple financial claims that partition its total asset cash flows, rather than a single claim. It is shown that in an asymmetric information environment, the issuer's expected revenue is enhanced by such cash flow...

This paper investigates the performance of mutual funds in Spain between January and June 1990. The robustness of results to alternative measurements and benchmarks is carefully analysed. As expected, the results indicate that, with monthly returns, it is not possible to measure the magnitudes...