Improved forecasting of mutual fund alphas and betas

Review of Finance

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 359-400

  Mamaysky, Harry ^a   Spiegel, Matthew ^b   Zhang, Hong ^a  

^a Old Lane LP ^*

^b YALE SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT   (United States)

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EID: 42449092379     PISSN: 15723097     EISSN: 1573692X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/rof/rfm018     Document Type: Article

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