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Hedge funds are said to be rewarding investments because they have favourable risk-return characteristics on a standalone basis, and because they offer valuable diversification with respect to traditional stock and bond markets. On the other hand, hedge fund returns have a number of...
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Using data from the TASS/Tremont hedge fund database, this article performs an empirical analysis of the evolution of the hedge fund industry within an industrial organization framework.
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Using one of the greatest hedge fund database ever used (2796 hedge funds including 801 dissolved), we investigate hedge funds performance using various asset-pricing models, including an extension form of Carhart's (1997) model combined with Fama & French (1998) Agarwal & Naik (2000) models and...
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Markowitz’s (1952) portfolio theory has permeated financial institutions over the past 50 years. Assuming that returns are normally distributed, Markowitz suggests that portfolio optimization should be performed in a mean-variance framework. With the emergence of hedge funds and their...
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Hedge Fund Performance and Persistence in Bull and Bear Markets DANIEL P.J. CAPOCCI University of Liege - Economics, Business Administration and Social Sciences A. CORHAY University of Liege - Department of Financial Management; University of Maastricht (formerly University of Limburg) -...
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According to the Mixture of Distributions Hypothesis (MDH), returns volatility and trading volume are driven by a …) volatility and trading volume changes in different financial markets. An implication is that returns volatility in one stock … market should show positive and contemporaneous correlation with returns volatility in another stock market. This paper tests …
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-parametric regression approach to next-day volatility forecasting. A second finding is that the GARCH(1,1) model severely over-estimated the … unconditional variance leads to poor volatility forecasts during the period under discussion with the MSE of GARCH(1,1) 1-year ahead … volatility more than 4 times bigger than the MSE of a forecast based on historical volatility. We test and reject the hypothesis …
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This study examines the statistical properties of volatility. Fractal dimension, probability distribution and two …-point volatility correlation are used to measure and compare volatility among six different markets for the 12-year period from Jan. 1 … different in their resistance to volatility : Tokyo has a higher ability to dissipate volatility. This phenomenon implies that …
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Volatility plays an important role in the explanation of prices of securities and their derivatives as well as risk … problem of volatility should not be underestimated for the causes of lack of the making in the order book. The introduction of … not seem even so important. We test in this paper the conditional volatility of a certain number of securities considered …
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the arrival rates of trades and trade composition on market volatility, liquidity and depth. We find that although … volatility increases with the forecasted arrival rates of total trades, it is relatively independent of the forecasted …
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