Hedge Fund Indexing Investment

We are investigating whether hedge fund indexing provide sufficient asset diversification for the private investors and decreased volatility. It is another way to gain access in the hedge fund industry. The traditional way was to invest in different hedge fund categories. Investing directly on the benchmark of each category is another alternative to gain no correlation diversification. Our results suggest that the majority of hedge fund managers do not have statistically significant skill or positive alpha. For example, the managers of the benchmark index of long/short equity hedge funds do not have market timing ability and positive alpha. The sample is provided from Data Feeder dataset. It is very comprehensive and includes hedge funds benchmark from the period 1998 to 2003. The database includes defunct funds and funds that ceased to operate and, therefore, is free from survivorship bias