Portfolio diversification: A factor analysis approach

Applied Financial Economics

Volumn 15, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 821-834

  Hui, Tak Kee ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FINANCIAL MARKET; INVESTMENT;

ASIA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; SINGAPORE [SOUTHEAST ASIA]; SOUTHEAST ASIA; WORLD;

EID: 24044479416     PISSN: 09603107     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09603100500187901     Document Type: Review

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