Performance of mutual equity funds in Brazil – A bootstrap analysis

This article reports a study on the performance of mutual equity funds in Brazil from January 2002 to August 2012. For the analyses, Carhart's four-factor model is used as the benchmark for performance, and bootstrap procedures are applied to separate skill from luck. The results show that retu...

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Main Authors: Marco Antonio Laes, Marcos Eugênio da Silva
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2014-09-01
Series:EconomiA
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1517758014000332