As recent research highlights that the Sharpe ratio has a decision theoretic foundation even in the case of asymmetric or fat-tailed excess returns and thus is adequate even for the evaluation of hedge funds, this note provides the first Sharpe ratio based performance analysis of the hedge fund...

The Sharpe ratio is adequate for evaluating investment funds when the returns ofthose funds are normally distributed and the investor intends to place all his risky assetsinto just one investment fund. Hedge fund returns differ significantly from anormal distribution. For this reason, other...

Eine zentrale Fragestellung in der wissenschaftlichen Auseinandersetzung auf dem GebietHedgefonds stellt deren Performancemessung dar. Ausgangspunkt unserer Untersuchungbildet die in der Literatur verbreitete Meinung, dass Hedgefonds aufgrund ungewöhnlicherAusprägungen der höheren...