Fund manager succession in closed-end mutual funds

Financial Review

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 53-78

  Rowe, Wei Wang ^a   Davidson, Wallace N ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA AT OMAHA   (United States)

^b SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Closed end mutual funds; Management succession; Mutual funds

Indexed keywords

EID: 84995374807     PISSN: 07328516     EISSN: 15406288     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6288.2000.tb01421.x     Document Type: Article

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