The performance of hedge fund strategies and the asymmetry of return distributions

European Financial Management

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 309-331

  Ding, Bill ^a   Shawky, Hany A ^a  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Coskewness; Hedge funds; Performance; Skewness

Indexed keywords

EID: 33847339755     PISSN: 13547798     EISSN: 1468036X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-036X.2006.00356.x     Document Type: Review

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