Unskilled Fund Managers: Replicating Active Fund Performance With Few ETFs
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- Moraes, Fernando & Cavalcante-Filho, Elias & De-Losso, Rodrigo, 2021. "Unskilled fund managers: Replicating active fund performance with few ETFs," International Review of Financial Analysis, Elsevier, vol. 78(C).
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Keywords
Mutual funds; performance measures; ETF; risk factors;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- G11 - Financial Economics - - General Financial Markets - - - Portfolio Choice; Investment Decisions
- G2 - Financial Economics - - Financial Institutions and Services
- G23 - Financial Economics - - Financial Institutions and Services - - - Non-bank Financial Institutions; Financial Instruments; Institutional Investors
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-RMG-2020-09-28 (Risk Management)
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