Good market timing skills can be an important factor contributing to hedge funds' out-performance. In this paper we use a unique semi-parametric panel data model capable of providing consistent short period estimates of the return correlations with three market factors for a sample of Long/Short...

Sharpe ratio (sometimes also referred to as information ratio) is widely used in asset management to compare and benchmark funds and asset managers. It computes the ratio of the (excess) net return over the strategy standard deviation. However, the elements to compute the Sharpe ratio, namely,...