Due to the development of financial markets, products, financial and mathematical models, portfolio selection today represents a comprehensive set of activities. Investors take into consideration many different factors, such as the market factors, return distribution characteristics and...

Nach einer langen Periode grosser Wachstumsraten ist die Hedgefond-Industrie im Kontext der kürzlichen Kreditkrise an einen interessanten Wendepunkt geraten. Diese Dissertation umfasst drei Aufsätze, die sich mit der risiko-adjustierten Performance von Hedgefonds befassen. Eine mögliche...

This study presents a hedge fund portfolio choice model for an investor facing ambiguity. In the empirical section, we measure ambiguity as the cross-sectional dispersion in Industrial Production growth and in stock market return forecasts, and we construct the systematic ambiguity factors from...