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DISCOUNTS AND PREMIUMS ON CLOSED‐END MUTUAL FUNDS: A STUDY IN VALUATION

DISCOUNTS AND PREMIUMS ON CLOSED‐END MUTUAL FUNDS: A STUDY IN VALUATION INVESTMENT TEXTS have long regarded closed-end mutual funds as curious phenomena worthy of a paragraph or two specifying that these firms hold as assets the securities of other firms (as do open-end funds) but are unusual in that the closed-end companies' equities are themselves traded in securities markets, and are not subject to continuous issue-redemption (as are those of open-end funds). The texts then continue bemusedly to relate that it is common for the market price of closed-ends to differ considerably from the funds' net asset value (again, definitionally in contrast to open-ends' shares which use net asset value as the basis for pricing). Occasionally efforts are made toward explaining the divergence of share price and net asset value per share but these are offhand at best (they will be examined below) and the authors quickly move to discussions of the more popular open-end funds.' It is not surprising that normative investment texts show little interest in closed-end funds; the companies are few and relatively small compared to the open-ends. What is surprising is that academic finance has seen nothing of interest in closed-end funds since they present our closest approach to a controlled experiment in the market http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The Journal of Finance Wiley

DISCOUNTS AND PREMIUMS ON CLOSED‐END MUTUAL FUNDS: A STUDY IN VALUATION

The Journal of Finance , Volume 28 (2) – May 1, 1973

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Publisher
Wiley
Copyright
1973 The American Finance Association
ISSN
0022-1082
eISSN
1540-6261
DOI
10.1111/j.1540-6261.1973.tb01799.x
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Abstract

INVESTMENT TEXTS have long regarded closed-end mutual funds as curious phenomena worthy of a paragraph or two specifying that these firms hold as assets the securities of other firms (as do open-end funds) but are unusual in that the closed-end companies' equities are themselves traded in securities markets, and are not subject to continuous issue-redemption (as are those of open-end funds). The texts then continue bemusedly to relate that it is common for the market price of closed-ends to differ considerably from the funds' net asset value (again, definitionally in contrast to open-ends' shares which use net asset value as the basis for pricing). Occasionally efforts are made toward explaining the divergence of share price and net asset value per share but these are offhand at best (they will be examined below) and the authors quickly move to discussions of the more popular open-end funds.' It is not surprising that normative investment texts show little interest in closed-end funds; the companies are few and relatively small compared to the open-ends. What is surprising is that academic finance has seen nothing of interest in closed-end funds since they present our closest approach to a controlled experiment in the market

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The Journal of FinanceWiley

Published: May 1, 1973

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