In a new environment where liquidity providers as well as liquidity consumers act strategically, understanding how liquidity flows and dries-up is key. In this paper, we propose a dynamic extension of the seminal model of Tauchen and Pitts (1983)' Mixture of Distributions Hypothesis (MDH) that...

This paper investigates empirically whether time-series momentum returns can explain the per- formance of hedge funds in the cross-section. Relying on the trend following literature, a volatility- adjusted time-series momentum signal is applied on a daily basis across a large set of futures,...

Based on the concept that the presence of liquidity frictions can increase the daily traded volume, we develop an extended version of the mixture of distribution hypothesis model (MDH) along the lines of Tauchen and Pitts (1983) to measure the liquidity portion of volume. Our approach relies on...

Is it really possible to control for the downside risk when the market environment is in constant evolution? If so, what would be the long-term growth prospects of such a strategy? We show in this article that when the dynamics of the variance and correlation terms are properly taken into...

Despite having registered significant investor appetite in recent years, empirical research on UCITS compliant hedge funds (“Newcits” or “Alternative UCITS”) is a rare commodity. The major contribution of this paper is therefore to evaluate the performance of publicly regulated...

This paper surveys the existing literature on the most widely-used factor models employed in the realm of financial asset pricing field. Through the concrete application of evaluating risks in the hedge fund industry, this paper demonstrates that signal processing techniques are an interesting...

Research in hedge fund investing proposes different solutions to build optimal hedge fund portfolios. However, these solutions are direct extensions of the usual meanvariance framework, and still suffer from model risks. More complex approaches start to be used but are related to numerous...

This paper develops a dynamic approach for assessing hedge fund risk exposures. First, we focus on an approximate factor model framework to deal with the factor selection issue. Instead of keeping the number of factors unchanged, we apply Bai and Ng (2002, 2006) to select the appropriate factors...