This paper uses copulas to model the joint survival within the groups of hedge funds and funds of funds managed by the same manager. Given their skewed distribution, a simple survival analysis based on linearity assumptions may fail to fully capture the dependence caused by extreme events in the...

Samuelson (1967) argues that as a general matter it is easy to show that investors should be maximally diversified. For this reason many institutions are attracted to diversified portfolios of hedge funds, referred to as Funds of Hedge Funds (FOFs). In this paper we examine a new database that...

For more than seventeen years, Bernard Madoff operated what was viewed as one of the most successful investment strategies in the world. This strategy ultimately collapsed in December 2008 in what financial experts are calling one of the most detrimental Ponzi schemes in history. Many large and...

This paper attempts to determine whether exchange-listed hedge funds experience longer lifetimes than non-listed funds, even after factors known to affect survival, such as size and performance, are considered. The Kaplan-Meier estimator is used to compare survival times of listed and non-listed...

The global financial crisis of 2008-2009 precipitated one of the longest IPO “droughts” in history; from September 2008 until May 2009 only eight new issues came to market in the United States. While the phenomenon of hot- and cold-IPO market cycles has been widely documented, there has been...