Rating mutual funds: Construction and information content of an investor-cost based rating of Danish mutual funds

Journal of Empirical Finance

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 662-693

  Bechmann, Ken L ^a   Rangvid, Jesper ^a  

^a Department of International Economics and Management   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Investor choices; Mutual fund costs and performances; Mutual fund ratings; Performance measurement

Indexed keywords

EID: 35548987493     PISSN: 09275398     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jempfin.2007.03.001     Document Type: Article

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