"This paper analyses a set of characteristics-based indices that, it has been argued, outperform market cap-weighted indices. We analyse the performance of an exhaustive list of these indices and show that i) the outperformance over value-weighted indices may be negative over long time periods,...

Le " must " des ouvrages de finance d'entreprise enfin disponible en français !Edité pour la première fois en langue française, Finance Corporate couvre le cours de gestion financière enseigné dans les écoles de commerce et universités. Ce classique des ouvrages de gestion financière,...

"Following a growing concern among investors about the quality of hedge fund index return data, this paper addresses the question of whether designing hedge fund indices that fulfil the usual requirements (in particular representative and investable) is or not a feasible task, given a variety of...

La gestion alternative connaît actuellement un engouement certain, tant de la part des investisseurs que des gérants qui y voient une parade efficace à la volatilité des marchés financiers. Cet intérêt ne saurait cependant occulter les risques auxquels sont exposés les hedge funds. Cet...

Given the increasing importance of funds of hedge funds in the development of the hedge fund industry and the cost-intensive nature of multi-manager structures, investors are questioning whether FoHF add value to an extent that justifies the extra layer of fees induced by their activity. To...

Purpose – The development of alternative investment has not yet been accompanied by genuine consideration of the specific characteristics of the risks and returns of hedge funds with regard to the provision of information to investors. To fill the gap, in 2004 EDHEC launched an international...

Despite repeated evidence that asset allocation accounts for a very large fraction of a portfolio return, the industry has never stopped favouring stock picking as the preferred form of active investment strategy. In this paper, we attempt to rehabilitate the importance of active asset...