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Hedge Fund returns are often highly serially correlated mainly due to illiquidity exposures given that investments in such securities tend to be inactively traded and associated market prices are not always readily available. Following that, observed returns of such alternative investments tend...
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This article aims to investigate the similarity of public and private real estate returns and risks over the relatively long horizon using data for the U.S and the U.K. The results show evidence of a one-to-one relationship between publicly traded REIT performance and privately traded direct...
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to determine and explore portfolio design and hedging implications. The results show that while bidirectional return …
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This study has 4 contributions to the literature. First, the authors analyze the risk characteristics for 11 Relative Value hedge fund strategies. Second, the authors introduce 3 families of behavioral factors, the D family, the L family, and the R family. In contrast to previous hedge fund...
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We develop a new approach for evaluating performance across hedge funds. Our approach allows for performance comparisons between models that are misspecified – a common feature given the numerous factors that drive hedge fund returns. The empirical results show that the standard models used in...
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period and the COVID-19 period. We also estimate the optimal weights, hedge ratios, and hedging effectiveness during both … higher during the COVID-19 period, implying a higher hedging cost compared to the pre-COVID-19 period. Last, the hedging … information to portfolio managers and policymakers regarding portfolio diversification, hedging, forecasting, and risk management. …
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The European economic integration and the financialization of the real estate certainly brought enormous contributions for the investment in this class of asset, on the other hand, the faster propagation of the shocks and the sudden corrections of markets become serious subjects. The aim of this...
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Professional asset allocators frequently report positive alphas, and the generation of alpha is widely discussed in the context of asset allocation. This paper demonstrates that two-fund asset allocation strategies contain a positive-alpha bias and derives an expression for the alpha of an asset...
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Empirical research on the benefits of investing in inflation-linked bonds usually relies on a limited number of observations due to the relatively recent introduction of these assets. We estimate models for the break-even inflation rate and use these to create hypothetical inflation-linked bond...
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This paper evaluates the underperformance of individual equity options relative to their replicating portfolios. Considering a high-dimensional set of variables, we use a machine learning approach to identify the characteristics of options and their underlying stocks that provide incremental...
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