will understate volatility and increase risk-adjusted performance measures such as the Sharpe ratio. We propose an …

We propose and implement a procedure to dynamically hedge climate change risk. To create our hedge target, we extract … hedge portfolios. We discipline the exercise by using third-party ESG scores of firms to model their climate risk exposures …. We show that this approach yields parsimonious and industry-balanced portfolios that perform well in hedging innovations …

funds as an alternative asset class, the high degree of fund specific risk and the lack of transparency may give fiduciaries …

-generating strategy typically lowers the fund's risk-adjusted excess return due to frictions such as price pressure. When the manager is … via both management and incentive fees, we show that (i) the high-powered incentive fees encourage excessive risk taking … sufficiently poor fund performances substantially curtail managerial risk-taking, provide strong incentives to de-leverage, and …