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Skill and Fees in Active Management
Stambaugh, Robert F. - 2019
Greater skill of active investment managers can mean less fee revenue in a general equilibrium. Although more …-skilled managers earn more revenue than less-skilled managers, greater skill for active managers overall can imply less revenue for … their industry. Greater skill allows managers to identify mispriced securities more accurately and thereby make better …
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What Happened To The Quants In August 2007? : Evidence from Factors and Transactions Data
Khandani, Amir E. - 2008
During the week of August 6, 2007, a number of quantitative long/short equity hedge funds experienced unprecedented losses. It has been hypothesized that a coordinated deleveraging of similarly constructed portfolios caused this temporary dislocation in the market. Using the simulated returns of...
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Fooling Some of the People All of the Time : The Inefficient Performance and Persistence of Commodity Trading Advisors
Bhardwaj, Geetesh - 2008
Investors face significant barriers in evaluating the performance of hedge funds and commodity trading advisors (CTAs). The only available performance data comes from voluntary reporting to private companies. Funds have incentives to strategically report to these companies, causing these data...
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Understanding Mutual Fund and Hedge Fund Styles Using Return Based Style Analysis
Dor, Arik Ben - 2002
(2001), and Agarwal and Naik (2001), we show how to analyze the investment style of hedge fund managers by including the …
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Hedge Funds With Style
Brown, Stephen J. - 2001
The popular perception is that hedge funds follow a reasonably well defined market-neutral investment style. While this long-short investment strategy may have characterized the first hedge funds, today hedge funds are a reasonably heterogeneous group. They are better defined in terms of their...
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The Cost of Capital for Alternative Investments
Jurek, Jakub W. - 2013
We document that the risks and pre-fee returns of broad hedge fund indices can be accurately matched with simple equity index put writing strategies, which provide monthly liquidity and complete transparency over their state-contingent payoff profiles. This nonlinear risk exposure combines with...
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The Real Effects of Hedge Fund Activism : Productivity, Asset Allocation, and Labor Outcomes
Brav, Alon - 2011
This paper studies the long-term effect of hedge fund activism on the productivity of target firms using plant-level information from the U.S. Census Bureau. A typical target firm improves its production efficiency in the three years after an activist intervention, and the improvements are most...
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Global Macro Risks in Currency Excess Returns
Berg, Kimberly A. - 2017
We study the cross-sectional variation of carry-trade-generated currency excess returns in terms of their exposure to global macroeconomic fundamental risk. The risk factor is the cross-country high-minus-low conditional skewness of the unemployment rate gap. It gives a measure of global...
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Capital Share Risk in U.S. Asset Pricing
Lettau, Martin - 2014
A single macroeconomic factor based on growth in the capital share of aggregate income exhibits significant explanatory power for expected returns across a range of equity characteristic portfolios and non-equity asset classes, with risk price estimates that are of the same sign and similar in...
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Momentum Trading, Return Chasing, and Predictable Crashes
Chabot, Benjamin - 2014
We combine self-collected historical data from 1867 to 1907 with CRSP data from 1926 to 2012, to examine the risk and return over the past 140 years of one of the most popular mechanical trading strategies -- momentum. We find that momentum has earned abnormally high risk-adjusted returns -- a...
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