This article analyzes the effect of liquidity risk on the performance of equity hedge fund portfolios. Similarly to Avramov, Kosowski, Naik, and Teo, we observe that, before accounting for the effect of liquidity risk, hedge fund portfolios that incorporate predictability in managerial skills...

In this study, we examine whether changes in the investment opportunity set stemming from interest rate and credit risks are priced in the US, the UK and the Swiss equity premia by estimating both two-factor and three-factor versions of Merton's ICAPM. We also study the degree of dependence and...

In this paper, we propose to study a hedge funds allocation problem. A typical feature of those alternative investments vehicles is their propensity to cease their activity after experiencing a distressing situation. We use an expected utility framework to integrate the hedge funds survival...

The last two decades have seen the development of a profusion of theoretical models of the term structure of interest rates. This study provides a general overview and a comprehensive comparative study of the most popular ones among both academics and practitioners. It also discusses their...

In this paper, we propose a general methodology to analyse model risk for discount bond options within a unified Heath, Jarrow, Morton (1992) framework. We illustrate its applicability by focusing on the hedging of discount bond options and options portfolios. We show how to decompose the...

This study focuses on two problems that affect the choice of alternative investments, that is the style consistency of the manager and his survival probability. We first present a new quantitative approach to describe fund managers style consistency. We show, through hard and fuzzy clustering,...

How do wealth managers understand and comply with the social norms embedded in banks’ codes of conduct (CoC) and how do they cope with ethical dilemmas? Do they have a tendency post Global Financial Crisis to prioritize banks’ financial security over clients’ interests? To answer these and...

We investigate the suitability of securitization as an alternative to reinsurance for the purpose of transferring natural catastrophe risk. We characterize the conditions under which one or the other form of risk transfer dominates using a setting in which reinsurers and traders in financial...

This paper examines the effect of investment constraints on performance measurement of institutionally managed funds. Assuming that these funds have a power utility function and using an optimal portfolio choice model, one can show that the Security Market Line remains a valid benchmark for...