The market timing ability of UK mutual funds

Journal of Business Finance and Accounting

Volumn 37, Issue 1-2, 2010, Pages 270-289

  Cuthbertson, Keith ^a   Nitzsche, Dirk ^a   O'Sullivan, Niall ^b  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Market timing; Mutual funds performance

Indexed keywords

EID: 77349090212     PISSN: 0306686X     EISSN: 14685957     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-5957.2009.02157.x     Document Type: Article

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