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.S. multinational firms. The proposed offshore concentration index (OCI) is distinct from existing measures of investment skills. More …
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We examine the factors influencing published estimates of hedge fund performance. Using a sample of 1,019 intercept terms from regressions of hedge fund returns on risk factors (the "alphas") collected from 74 studies, we document a strong downward trend in the reported alphas. The trend...
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Greater skill of active investment managers can mean less fee revenue in a general equilibrium. Although more-skilled managers earn more revenue than less-skilled managers, greater skill for active managers overall can imply less revenue for their industry. Greater skill allows managers to...
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Active fund managers are skilled and, on average, have used their skill to generate about $3.2 million per year. Large cross-sectional differences in skill persist for as long as ten years. Investors recognize this skill and reward it by investing more capital in funds managed by better...
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Good market timing skills can be an important factor contributing to hedge funds' out-performance. In this paper we use … 10% significance level, 17.12% of funds exhibit good linear timing skills and 21.32% of funds possess some level of good … nonlinear market timing skills. Further, we find that market timing strategies of hedge funds are different in good and bad …
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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,...
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