On the nature of mean-variance spanning

Finance Research Letters

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 106-113

  Cheung, C Sherman ^a   Kwan, Clarence C Y ^a   Mountain, Dean C ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Asset spanning; Portfolio choice

Indexed keywords

EID: 67349176657     PISSN: 15446123     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.frl.2008.12.003     Document Type: Article

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