We are investigating whether hedge fund indexing provide sufficient asset diversification for the private investors and decreased volatility. It is another way to gain access in the hedge fund industry. The traditional way was to invest in different hedge fund categories. Investing directly on...

This book is designed to provide an overview and introduction to the Fixed–income securities industry. A fixed–income security is a debt obligation or a loan in which the issuer of the debt pays a specified amount to the holder of the security in terms of fixed periodic payments known as the...

This book is designed to provide an overview and introduction to the financial derivatives. Derivatives are a very complicated subject in terms of mathematics and understanding, so it becomes very important to use simple definition and basic mathematics. A lot of students and especially the one...

In this paper, we are using Jensen's alpha, Sharpe ratio and multi-factor models to test the performance of hedge funds for the period 1998 to 2003. Hedge fund returns exhibit a high degree of non-linearity and kurtosis. Our results suggest that for the examined period hedge funds provide...

We are investigating Sharpe, (1992), return based style analysis of equity market neutral hedge funds. The style weights of taking a short position in different assets can be positive or negative. A market neutral strategy combines both long and short positions. The net exposure is equal to...

In this article, we have tested a linear Gaussian state space model and the kalman filter in testing ARMA(2,3) models of the natural logarithmic monthly market returns of the US 1838 bond debenture closed-end fund. The aim is to estimate expectations that arises from the interaction of...

Autoregressive Conditional Heteroskedastic models (ARCH), and Generalized Autoregressive Conditional Heteroskedastic models, (GARCH) take into account the non-linearity that arises in the financial time series. Well known anomalies such as the calendar effects, January effect and seasonality's...

This article provides an explanation of the fluctuations and persistence of excess discount return in the UK and the US. On average, Guirguis six - factor model can explain 67% of the variation in the excess discount return in the UK market by taking into consideration the market effect, size,...

In this article, we are investigating the effects of returns and expenses of hedge funds in terms of natural logarithmic monthly returns and expenses in terms of fees of long/short equity and arbitrage hedge funds. We have applied a Vector Error Correction model, (VEC) and a Granger causality to...

This article examines the application of the Sharpe style analysis versus a rolling methodology of monthly returns of long/short funds, market neutral funds, event – driven hedge funds and their related indices. The Sharpe ratio is calculated as the ratio of the excess return divided by the...