Multi-Time and Multi-Moment Nonparametric Frontier-Based Fund Rating: Proposal and Buy-and-Hold Backtesting Strategy
status: published
status: published
This contribution introduces new frontier models to rate mutual funds that can simultaneously handle multiple moments and multiple times. These new models are empirically applied to hedge fund data, since this category of funds is known to be subject to non-normal return distributions. We define a simple buy-and-hold backtesting strategy to test fo...
Au xe siècle, l’Amou-Daria fait partie de l’empire islamique, alors soumis, en Orient, au pouvoir du califat abbasside. Plus de deux siècles après les conquêtes arabo-musulmanes, il conserve toutefois son statut de frontière par excellence. Cet article se propose d’étudier l’Amou-Daria à la fois comme frontière pensée et frontière vécue, dans un co...
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