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This paper produces multiple fund-of-funds’ portfolios based on sorting and a novel non-parametric approach to lend in-depth insights into the extent hedge fund returns display higher order (non-linear) persistence patterns. By exploiting monthly data from Hedge Fund Research Database between...
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We study how fast investors learn about manager skills by examining the speed at which their disagreement converges. Using a novel measure of disagreement, we find that hedge fund investors learn as fast as suggested by Bayes' rule. However, we also find mutual fund investors learn much more...
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by hedge fund managers. Three quarters of hedge funds shifted their investment styles at least once over the period from …-looking. Instead, we show evidence that managers of style-shifting funds exhibit both style-timing ability and the skill of generating …
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support alpha delivery by mutual and hedge fund managers though this critically depends upon model specification. Quantile …
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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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female portfolio manager and funds that have all female portfolio managers. Funds with all female managers perform no … idea that female managers need to perform better for their funds to survive. Yet, female-managed surviving funds have fewer … female and male managers, but that only the best performing female managers manage to survive …
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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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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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