This paper seeks to ascertain whether shocks to hedge fund returns are permanent or temporary by using M1 and M2 unit root procedures advanced by Narayan and Popp. In addition, the paper implements the GARCH-based unit root test developed by Liu and Narayan. These procedures allow for two...

In this article, we have tested the volatility of the monthly returns of an equity hedge fund for changing conditional variances by using a log likelihood model. Generalized autoregressive conditional heteroskedastic models, (GARCH) with t-distributed errors, and exponential generalized...