An examination of UK unit trust performance within the arbitrage pricing theory framework

Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 91-107

  Fletcher, Jonathan ^a  

^a GLASGOW CALEDONIAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Arbitrage Pricing; Performance; UK Unit Trusts

Indexed keywords

EID: 0141685608     PISSN: 0924865X     EISSN: 15737179     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1008201615367     Document Type: Article

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