Fundos de investimentos em direitos creditórios: riscos e ratings em eventos de avaliação

Abstract

This research outlined a longitudinal view of Asset Backed Securities (in Brazilian version named FIDC) presenting evaluation events and problems that led to the early amortization and/or settlement by analyzing 44 ABS of a sample selected in the period between the years 2005 and 2014. It’s a descriptive and bibliographic research, with a qualitative approach and informative material content analysis related to such funds: regulations, prospectuses, rating reports and minutes of shareholders' meetings available on the websites of Brazilian Securities Commission (CVM) and Center for Custody and Financial Settlement of Securities (CETIP). The limitation of this research was that the document databases for the history of each existing fund with the CVM are not always complete. This study aimed to identify the main features of these ABS, the reasons that led to the evaluation events, and the presence of evidence to suggest "conflict of interest" from the perspective of agency theory in the management of these funds. On the one hand the results showed that many ABS who enjoyed high preliminary rating had operational problems that hampered receivables flows for these funds: only 20% of evaluated cases, ratings agencies could lower the ratings before evaluation events were announced . On the other hand, during biennium 2014/2015 CVM sought to improve legislation to prevent conflicts of interest among the participants of these operations, and to create mechanisms to ensure necessary information flows for credit rating agencies to carry out their monitoring work more effectively.