Performance and performance persistence of UK closed-end equity funds

International Review of Financial Analysis

Volumn 34, Issue , 2014, Pages 189-199

  Bredin, Don ^a   Cuthbertson, Keith ^b   Nitzsche, Dirk ^b   Thomas, Dylan C ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

C14; C15; Closed end funds; False discovery rate; G11; Performance

Indexed keywords

EID: 84904044677     PISSN: 10575219     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.irfa.2014.05.011     Document Type: Article

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