Past literature shows that tests of performance persistence do not agree in the most important mutual fund markets and so there is a need for further research in other smaller countries such as Spain, one of the biggest growth fund markets in Europe in the nineties. Spanish equity funds...

In this work, we evaluate the use of public and private information by Spanish fund managers by means of an analysis of their traditional and conditional performance. Furthermore, we repeat this analysis for various fund subsets compiling their different characteristics, which allows us to...

This article investigates the performance of Spanish pension funds using a range of linear and nonlinear performance models. As the sample presents characteristics of higher-order moments, traditional performance measures are distorted. We generate alternative performance models which include...

In the present study, we confirm the asymmetry of the performance-flow relationship documented in the literature, but with the particularities of the sample of Spanish funds. Thus, we conclude that mid-performers show no significant influence on investor decisions. The panel data analysis also...