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Style, Fees and Performance of Italian Equity Funds

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Cesari, R.
Panetta, F.

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Using a clustering procedure, we classify Italian funds ex-post on the basis of the composition of their portfolios and find that the optimal number of clusters is equal to 4. The four groups which result from the statistical classification closely match the 4-level aggregation of the 20 ex-ante categories used by the Italian mutual funds association.

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Paper provided by Banca Italia - Servizio di Studi in its series Papers with number 325.

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Date of creation: 1998
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Keywords: FINANCIAL ASSETS ; ITALY ; RISK;

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  1. Roberto Casarin & Loriana Pelizzon & Andrea Piva, 2008. "Italian Equity Funds: Efficiency and Performance Persistence," Working Papers 0817, University of Brescia, Department of Economics. [Downloadable!]
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