for improving our understanding of the risk of hedge funds. At the same time, research has sprung up that applies standard … performance and risk assessment. After constructing Bayesian estimators for alpha-stable distributions in the context of an ARMA …-GARCH time series model with stable innovations, we compare our risk evaluation and prediction results to the predictions of …

's optimal mean-variance portfolio and the amount of unhedged risk prior to maturity. Solutions assuming the cases where the …