Stock preferences and derivative activities of Australian fund managers

Accounting and Finance

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 97-120

  Pinnuck, Matt ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Derivatives; Fund managers; Stock preferences

Indexed keywords

EID: 33744962997     PISSN: 08105391     EISSN: 1467629X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-629x.2004.00102.x     Document Type: Article

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