Diversification in funds of hedge funds: Is it possible to overdiversify?

Review of Asset Pricing Studies

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 89-110

  Brown, Stephen J ^a,c   Gregoriou, Greg N ^b,d   Pascalau, Razvan ^b  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^c NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d EDHEC BUSINESS SCHOOL   (France)

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EID: 84871222228     PISSN: 20459920     EISSN: 20459939     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/rapstu/rar003     Document Type: Article

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