Hedge funds are fundamentally exposed to equity volatility, skewness, and kurtosis risks based on the systematic pattern and significant spread in alphas from the existing models that do not control for the higher-moment risks. The spread and pattern in alphas do not disappear with bootstrap...

Hedge funds' extensive use of derivatives, short-selling, and leverage and their dynamic trading strategies create significant non-normalities in their return distributions. Hence, the traditional performance measures fail to provide an accurate characterization of the relative strength of hedge...

Hedge funds' extensive use of derivatives, short-selling, and leverage and their dynamic trading strategies create significant non-normalities in their return distributions. Hence, the traditional performance measures fail to provide an accurate characterization of the relative strength of hedge...

We are investigating Sharpe, (1992), return based style analysis of equity market neutral hedge funds. The style weights of taking a short position in different assets can be positive or negative. A market neutral strategy combines both long and short positions. The net exposure is equal to...

The main purpose of this paper is to investigate if hedge funds create abnormal risk-adjusted returns, both during bull and bear markets. The model applied is an extended multi-factor model. The dataset consists of hedge fund return series with data from a fifteen-year period ranging from 1994...

This article aims at testing empirically the major building blocks that affect the performance of equity market neutral hedge funds: incentive fees, management fees, size, age, hurdle rate, high watermark provision and lockup period. A market neutral strategy combines both long and short...