Measuring investment skills of fund managers

Applied Financial Economics

Volumn 17, Issue 16, 2007, Pages 1359-1368

  Chua, Choong Tze ^a   Koh, Winston T H ^a  

^a SINGAPORE MANAGEMENT UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INVESTMENT; MANAGEMENT; MEASUREMENT METHOD; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT;

EID: 36048971788     PISSN: 09603107     EISSN: 14664305     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09603100500447586     Document Type: Article

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