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title: Brazilian Mutual Funds Evaluation
url: https://www.ml-quant.com/papers/repec/eme-ijoemp-ijoem-01-2021-0153/
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identifier: RePEc:eme:ijoemp:ijoem-01-2021-0153
source_url: https://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/redir.pf?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.emerald.com%2Finsight%2Fcontent%2Fdoi%2F10.1108%2FIJOEM-01-2021-0153%2Ffull%2Fhtml%3Futm_source%3Drepec%26utm_medium%3Dfeed%26utm_campaign%3Drepec%3Bh%3Drepec%3Aeme%3Aijoemp%3Aijoem-01-2021-0153
featured: 2024-07-24
citations: unknown
topic: Portfolio & Allocation
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# Brazilian Mutual Funds Evaluation

Three- or five-factor models can minimize market anomalies in equity mutual fund performance evaluation, with conditional methods offering more explanation.

- Source: https://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/redir.pf?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.emerald.com%2Finsight%2Fcontent%2Fdoi%2F10.1108%2FIJOEM-01-2021-0153%2Ffull%2Fhtml%3Futm_source%3Drepec%26utm_medium%3Dfeed%26utm_campaign%3Drepec%3Bh%3Drepec%3Aeme%3Aijoemp%3Aijoem-01-2021-0153
- Identifier: RePEc:eme:ijoemp:ijoem-01-2021-0153
- Released: 2022-07-20
- First featured: Quant Letter No. 58 (2024-07-24): https://www.ml-quant.com/issues/2024-07-24/
- Citations (Semantic Scholar): not tracked
- Published in: not yet
- Topic: Portfolio & Allocation

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