"Investor relations is an essential facet of any publicly traded company, inevitably affecting its stock price. With the changes in the current economic environment, emerging companies require an authoritative, well-researched, and honest guide to building and maintaining a large shareholder...

We examine the potential for selection bias in voluntarily reported hedge fund performance data. We construct a novel set of hedge fund returns that have never been reported to a commercial hedge fund database. These returns allow a direct comparison of performance between funds that choose to...