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The discount on closed-end funds is widely accepted as proof of investor irrationality. We show,however, that a parsimonious rational model can generate a discount that exhibits many of the characteristics observed in practice. The only required features of the model are that managers have...
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. According to the present sentiment theory, noisy traders, which are usually small investors, are the reason behind CEF discounts …. To test this discount theory, a closer study of the CEF funds and their correlations to various market indicators is … investment even if they are traded at a premium and our results show that the sentiment theory cannot explain the origin of the …
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The question of whether and how mutual fund managers provide valuable services for their clients motivates one of the largest literatures in finance. One candidate explanation is that funds process information about future asset values and use that information to invest in high-valued assets....
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Many investors believe that success in investing is either luck or clairvoyance. In Rational Investing, finance professor Hugues Langlois and asset manager Jacques Lussier present the current state of asset management and clarify the conundrum of luck versus skill. The core of Rational Investing...
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