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well in terms of diversification even for those investors worried about the alpha of funds. The benefits of diversification …
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(FOFs). In this paper we examine a new database that separates out for the first time the effects of diversification (the … variance reducing effects of diversification peter out once FOFs hold more than 20 underlying hedge funds. Yet the majority of … FOFs are more diversified than this. We find a new and surprising result that this excess diversification actually …
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international diversification. Our approach is motivated by the increasing evidence that size (SMB), book-to-market (HML), and … factor diversification are significant for both in- and out-of-sample periods, and for a realistic range of additional …
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Funds of hedge funds are diversified investment vehicles that provide investors with diversification either across …
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This is the first paper analyzing the impact of index momentum factors on the performance of international and global equity funds. Extending an international, index-based version of the Fama and French (1993) three-factor model by adding the factors of country momentum and sector momentum, we...
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This paper unveils the processes for building a country's trading strategy that can outperform the MSCI Indexes and on the factor basis. By exploring the belief and experimenting with the structure in place, there seems to be enough room to build a quantitative investment strategy that generates...
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We investigate the new reality of exchange-traded funds (ETFs). We show that many ETFs are active investments in form (designed to generate alpha) or function (serve as building blocks of active portfolios). The median ETF has an Activeness Index of 93.1%. Active-in-form ETFs have positive...
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better quantify the historical benefits of international diversification and revisit the question of whether British … increased his investment in new British industry at the expense of foreign diversification would have been worse off. The …
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The article aims at pointing out the differences in market reactions regarding the announcement of an investment of selected Sovereign Wealth Funds in companies listed on the London Stock Exchange. The research sample consists of 796 market transactions made by four selected Sovereign Wealth...
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