We argue that only hedge funds whose returns are driven by beta management of exposures to latent risk factors could be successfully replicated. We develop a methodology for creating a portfolio of ETFs that replicates risk factor exposures taken by successful beta active cloneable hedge funds....

We develop a new factor selection methodology of spanning the space of hedge fund risk factors with all available exchange traded funds (ETFs). We demonstrate the efficacy of the methodology with out-of-sample hedge fund return replication, and find that the replication accuracy increases with...

We propose using ETF returns as proxies for tradable risk factors in hedge fund performance evaluation, identifying contemporaneously relevant risk factors from the entire universe of ETFs. Our model provides more informative estimates of alpha and beta coefficients for predicting hedge fund...