French Abstract. L’objectif de cette étude est d’analyser l’évolution du profil de risque des hedge funds pour parvenir à mieux se protéger contre un risque de faillite. L’étude de cas porte sur la débâcle d’Amaranth Advisors, hedge fund multi-stratégique qui a perdu plus de 6...

China's stock market has grown rapidly since its introduction in 1991 and it has become one of the world's leading stock markets. This study is concerned with the dependence structures that exist between the Chinese stock market and other major stock markets including those in the US, UK, Japan,...

According to the often-cited CapCo study (2003) about hedge fund failures, 50% of the failures were driven by Operational Risk. Not only for hedge funds, but also for other asset management companies – such as private equity companies, family offices or independent asset managers - operational...

Several theories like optimal trading range hypothesis, liquidity hypothesis, signaling hypothesis have been advanced in relation to this non-economic corporate event. But still there is need to study the investors' optimizing behavior after stock split. With this focus on optimization of the...

Noted economist, Harry Markowitz (“Markowitz) received a Nobel Prize for his pioneering theoretical contributions to financial economics and corporate finance. His innovative work established the underpinnings for Modern Portfolio Theory — an investment framework for the selection and...

We show that the currency risk embedded in the benchmarks of international mutual funds negatively affects fund performance. More specifically, a high benchmark-implied currency risk induces funds to invest in markets with less volatile currencies, leading to a higher degree of currency...

We study international outsourcing in the asset management industry. We argue that subcontractor management companies use the funds they manage on behalf of third parties to subsidize their own inhouse funds. On average, inhouse funds outperform the outsourced funds by 7.5 basis points per...

Why do diversified firms hold significantly less cash than focused firms? We study this using a dynamic model of corporate investment, saving, and diversification decisions. We find that investment dynamics are more important in explaining the cash differences than financing frictions. More...

Interest rate risk is the exposure of a bank's financial condition to adverse movements in interest rates. Changes in interest rates affect a bank's earnings by changing its net interest income and also affect the underlying value of the bank's assets, liabilities and off-balance sheet...

We study the link between information barriers in global markets and the organizational form of asset management. Fund families outsource funds in which they are at an informational disadvantage to generate performance. Using a structural model of self-selection, we endogenize the outsourcing...