Performance characteristics of hedge funds and commodity funds: Natural vs. spurious biases

Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 291-307

  Fung, William ^a   Hsieh, David A ^b  

^a PI Asset Management LLC   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 0034416371     PISSN: 00221090     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/2676205     Document Type: Article

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