Return smoothing and performance persistence are both sources of autocorrelation in hedge fund returns. The practice of pre-processing the data in order to remove smoothing before conducting performance analysis also affects the predictability of hedge fund returns. This paper develops a...

This paper studies how stock market sentiment impacts corporate bond valuations. Using bond transactions from the Trading and Compliance Engine (TRACE), we find that sentiment is negatively related to bond yield spreads, with the impact being stronger after the onset of the recent credit crisis....