Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to propose that simple measures of linear association are unable to capture accurately the dependence between the survival of hedge funds and funds of funds, respectively. The paper then aims to advocate the use of copulas to model the joint survival of...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to propose that simple measures of linear association are unable to capture accurately the dependence between the survival of hedge funds and funds of funds, respectively. The paper then aims to advocate the use of copulas to model the joint survival of...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore how hedge fund database biases developed during the 2007‐2009 financial crisis. Design/methodology/approach – The sample consists of 8,935 hedge funds from the Lipper TASS Hedge Fund Database for the January 2002‐September 2010 time...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the possibility of creating hedge funds “clones” using liquid exchange traded instruments. Design/methodology/approach – Authors analyze the performance of fixed weight and extended Kalman filter generated clone portfolios (EKF) for 14...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the return performance of different investment strategies in the hedge fund sector, with a particular emphasis on the recent US financial crisis of 2007‐2010. Additionally, the paper aims to investigate the comovement of hedge fund index...