Seasonality in fund performance: An examination of the portfolio holdings and trades of investment managers

Journal of Business Finance and Accounting

Volumn 33, Issue 7-8, 2006, Pages 1240-1266

  Gallagher, David R ^a   Pinnuck, Matt ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Corporate announcements; Managed fund returns; Portfolio holdings; Seasonality; Tax loss selling

Indexed keywords

EID: 33749003996     PISSN: 0306686X     EISSN: 14685957     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-5957.2006.00018.x     Document Type: Article

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