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title: Future Value of Mutual Fund Investments
url: https://www.ml-quant.com/papers/ssrn/4829431/
site: ML-Quant (https://www.ml-quant.com)
updated: 2026-09-26
license: Summaries CC BY 4.0; links go to the original sources
index: https://www.ml-quant.com/llms.txt
identifier: SSRN 4829431
source_url: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4829431
featured: 2024-05-22
citations: unknown
topic: Portfolio & Allocation
---


# Future Value of Mutual Fund Investments

The paper suggests that mutual fund investment forecasts are best presented in currency terms and that the precision of past and predicted values can help analyze sampling errors.

- Source: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4829431
- Identifier: SSRN 4829431
- Released: 2022-12-22
- First featured: Quant Letter No. 50 (2024-05-22): https://www.ml-quant.com/issues/2024-05-22/
- Citations (Semantic Scholar): not tracked
- Published in: not yet
- Topic: Portfolio & Allocation

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