Relative importance of hedge fund characteristics

Financial Markets and Portfolio Management

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 419-441

  Le Moigne, Cécile ^a   Savaria, Patrick ^a  

^a Investment Policy Research   (Canada)

Author keywords

Characteristics; Hedge funds; Performance

Indexed keywords

EID: 33846513381     PISSN: 15554961     EISSN: 1555497X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11408-006-0029-z     Document Type: Article

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