Edward Tower
Edward Tower | |
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Nationality | American |
Occupation | Academic |
Academic background | |
Alma mater | Harvard University |
Academic work | |
Discipline | Financial economics |
Sub-discipline | International Economics and Finance |
Institutions | Duke University |
Notable works | Mutual fund studies |
Website | home |
Edward Tower is a professor within the Economics Department at Duke University. His teaching expertise includes the subjects of finance, computable general equilibrium modeling, development economics, managerial economics, micro and macroeconomics, and international trade and finance.
Edward Tower has presented papers addressing Vanguard mutual funds at the Bogleheads® 11[1] and Bogleheads® 12[2] reunion conventions.
Papers
Tower is the author/co-author of numerous papers examining mutual funds. Many studies center on Vanguard mutual funds, including comparative studies with other fund providers, such as GMO, Fidelity, Dimensional Fund Advisors, and Wisdom Tree.
Year | Study |
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2014 | GMO's Predictions: A Useful Guide for Investors?[3] |
2010 | GMO’s Predictions Prescient? Using them to predict Vanguard’s Mutual Fund Returns[4] |
2010 | GMO versus Vanguard: Assessing the Performance of Comparable Funds[5] |
2010 | Strategic Asset Allocation in Practice: Using Vanguard Funds to Clone GMO’s Benchmark‐Free Allocation Fund[6] |
2009 | Vanguard versus DFA & WisdomTree, and the Value Added by Dan Wiener’s Independent Adviser for Vanguard Investors[7] |
2009 | Performance of actively managed versus index funds: The Vanguard case[8] |
2009 | Classic and enhanced index funds: Performance and issues[9] |
2008 | Ranking mutual fund families: minimum expenses and maximum loads as markers for moral turpitude[10] |
2008 | Time zone arbitrage in Vanguard’s international index funds[11] |
2008 | Enhanced versus Passive Mutual Fund Indexing: Has DFA Outperformed Vanguard by Enough to Justify its Advisor and Transaction Fees?[12] |
2008 | Do Vanguard’s managed funds beat its index funds[13] |
2005 | Fidelity versus Vanguard: Comparing the performance of the two largest mutual fund families[14] |
2004 | Index fundamentalism revisited[15] |
Books
- Gilbert, John; Tower, Edward (2013). An Introduction to Numerical Simulation for Trade Theory and Policy. World Scientific Publishing Company. p. 300. ISBN 978-9814390811
References
- ↑ Tower, Edward; Yang, Chao (2012). Vanguard versus the Enhanced Indexers, DFA, RAFI, and WisdomTree: Is Traditional Indexation Passé?. SSRN.
- ↑ Lim, Heehyun; Tower, Edward (2013). Enhanced versus Traditional Indexation for International Mutual Funds: Evaluating DFA, WisdomTree and RAFI Powershares.
- ↑ Tower, Edward; Barry, David; Stansky, Edward (2014). GMO's Predictions: A Useful Guide for Investors?. Economic Research Initiatives at Duke (ERID) Working Paper.
- ↑ Tower, Edward (2010). GMO’s Predictions Prescient? Using them to predict Vanguard’s Mutual Fund Returns.
- ↑ Tower, Edward (2010). GMO versus Vanguard: Assessing the Performance of Comparable Funds. SSRN.
- ↑ Tower, Edward (2010). Strategic Asset Allocation in Practice: Using Vanguard Funds to Clone GMO’s Benchmark‐Free Allocation Fund. SSRN.
- ↑ Yichong, Zhang; Tower, Edward (2009). Vanguard versus DFA & WisdomTree, and the Value Added by Dan Wiener’s Independent Adviser for Vanguard. SSRN.
- ↑ Tower, Edward (2009). Performance of actively managed versus index funds: The Vanguard case. Mutual Funds: Portfolio Structures, Analysis, Management, and Stewardship: John Wiley & Sons. pp. 211–236.
- ↑ Tower, Edward (2009). Classic and enhanced index funds: Performance and issues. Mutual Funds: Portfolio Structures, Analysis, Management, and Stewardship: Wiley. pp. 237–264.
- ↑ Zheng, Wei; Tower, Edward (2008). Ranking mutual fund families: minimum expenses and maximum loads as markers for moral turpitude. International Review of Economics: Springer-Verlag. pp. 315–350.
- ↑ Donnelly, Katelyn Rae; Tower, Edward (2008). Time zone arbitrage in Vanguard’s international index funds. Duke working paper.
- ↑ Yang,Cheng-Ying; Tower, Edward (2008). Enhanced versus Passive Mutual Fund Indexing: Has DFA Outperformed Vanguard by Enough to Justify its Advisor and Transaction Fees?. The Journal of Investing. pp. 71–81.
- ↑ Rodriguez, Abel; Tower, Edward (2008). Do Vanguard’s managed funds beat its index fund.
- ↑ Zheng, Wei; Tower, Edward (2005). Fidelity versus Vanguard: Comparing the performance of the two largest mutual fund families. International Review of Economics and Business.
- ↑ Reinker,Kenneth S.; Tower, Edward (2004). Index fundamentalism revisited. The Journal of Portfolio Management: Institutional Investor Journals. pp. 37–50.
External links
- Home page
- Author page, Academic search (beta)
- Edward Tower : Citation Profile, CitEc
- Google Scholars page
- Edward Tower:RePEc/IDEAS
- SSRN author page