Exchange-traded funds (ETFs) exist for stock, bond and commodity markets. In most cases the underlying feature of an ETF is an index. Fund management today uses the active and the passive way to construct a portfolio. ETFs can be used for passive portfolio management, for which ETFs with...

Financial institutions commonly face the risk that large trades will execute at unfavorable prices due to price impact effects from insufficient market liquidity. A typical method to manage these price impact effects is to split a given order into smaller pieces and to trade these pieces...

Research in hedge fund investing proposes different solutions to build optimal hedge fund portfolios. However, these solutions are direct extensions of the usual meanvariance framework, and still suffer from model risks. More complex approaches start to be used but are related to numerous...

We develop a dynamic valuation model of the hedge fund seeding business by solving the consumption and portfolio-choice problem for a risk-averse manager who launches a hedge fund through a seeding vehicle. This vehicle, i.e. fees-for-seed swap, specifies that a strategic partner (seeder)...

In this paper, we consider optimal pairs trading strategies in terms of static optimality and dynamic optimality under mean-variance (MV) criterion. The spread of the entity pairs is assumed to be mean-reverting and follows an Ornstein-Uhlenbeck (OU) process. A constrained optimal control...

In view of the need for portfolio diversification, we investigate the interlinkages between a private equity ETF and a set of high-demand asset classes including bonds, equities, crude oil, gold, commodities, currency, Bitcoin, and shipping within a spillover framework. For this objective, we...

This article proposes a multi-currency cross-hedging strategy that minimizes the exchange risk. The use of derivatives in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) is not common but, despite its complexity, can be interesting for those with international activities. In particular, the reduction...

Given a low-interest-rate environment, the authors examine whether holding debt is still an optimal asset allocation in a portfolio framework compared with using a negative carry protective-put strategy. The basic premise is to examine utilizing direct equity hedges in a portfolio and compare...

Using a comprehensive dataset of hedge fund 13F filings, we analyze hedge fund trading from 1998-2010 to determine if investor redemptions cause fire sales and stock market disruptions. We find evidence of hedge fund fire sales in the two quarters with the worst stock market performance. During...

The rapid rise of corporate bond portfolio trading since the end of 2017 has attracted attention from practitioners and regulators alike. I show that inventory hedging explains the recent meteoric rise of corporate bond portfolio trading, likely aided by the recent proliferation of credit index...