With the benefit of a more comprehensive dataset than previous authors in this area, in this paper we revisit the relationship between hedge fund performance and size. Our results indicate that there is a strong, negative relationship between hedge fund performance and size. But, in addition, we...

The UK's defined benefit pensions industry makes widespread use of pooled investment vehicles which are provided by a large number of fund management groups. In this paper we provide the first comprehensive performance analysis of these funds. Using data on 734 pooled funds, that had a combined...

[We develop a performance evaluation model that incorporates the factors proposed by Huij and Derwall (2008) and a fund-specific benchmark to analyse the performance of US fixed income funds. Using the full sample, and accounting for the possibility of false discoveries we find fund management...