Seasonality, market timing and performance amongst benchmarks and mutual fund evaluation

Journal of Business Finance and Accounting

Volumn 33, Issue 9-10, 2006, Pages 1484-1507

  Matallín SÁEZ, Juan C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT JAUME I   (Spain)

Author keywords

Market timing; Mutual funds; Omitted benchmarks; Performance; Seasonality

Indexed keywords

EID: 33845404196     PISSN: 0306686X     EISSN: 14685957     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-5957.2006.00636.x     Document Type: Article

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