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This paper examines the effect of investor-level real-world investment constraints, including several which had not been studied before, on hedge fund performance and its persistence. Using a large consolidated database, we demonstrate that hedge fund performance persistence is significantly...
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, while mutual fund strategies are largely trend following. The only institutional performers---the 2/3 of hedge fund managers … that are contrarian---earn alpha of 2.4% per year. Contrarian hedge fund managers tend to trade profitably with all other … manager types, especially when purchasing stocks from momentum-oriented hedge and mutual fund managers. Superior contrarian …
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Hedge fund activism generates persistent performance, but heterogeneity in performance suggests that some hedge fund activists are more skilled than others. We use a Markov Chain Monte Carlo Bayesian estimation algorithm to isolate a time-invariant activist-specific skill component from...
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This paper examines the governance role of hedge fund activists by analyzing the impact of these activists on CEO turnover, CEO pay, and CEO pay-performance link in targeted companies. Using the difference-in-difference approach, we first find significantly higher CEO turnover following hedge...
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While it is established that idiosyncratic volatility has a negative impact on the cross-section of future stock returns, the relationship between idiosyncratic volatility and future hedge fund returns is largely unexplored. We document that hedge funds with high idiosyncratic volatility...
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The level of diseconomies of scale in asset management has important implications for tests of manager skill and the expected level of performance persistence. To identify the causal impact of fund size on future returns, we exploit the fact that small differences in returns can cause discrete...
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The level of diseconomies of scale in asset management has important implications for tests of manager skill and the expected level of performance persistence. To identify the causal impact of fund size on future returns, we exploit the fact that small differences in returns can cause discrete...
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This study provides formal theoretical evidence that constructions of fund alpha that are implemented using robust specifications of asset pricing models generate alpha estimates that are well defined. Regardless, the formal theoretical model shows fund alphas that are constructed with the...
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managerial replacement. We find that managers with superior performance that is due to sample variation are more likely to be … dismissed than are ‘unlucky' managers indicating that many fund companies are not captivated by the ‘lucky' managers' extreme … performance and willing to give ‘unlucky' managers another chance. Furthermore, underperforming managers are more likely to be …
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