Using a parsimonious measure of investor protection constructed from fund organizational characteristics, this paper documents that companies targeted by activists with better investor protection structures outperform those targeted by poor-investor-protection activists by roughly 10% per year....

In dieser Arbeit werden die systematischen Risiken von Distressed-Securities-Hedgefonds untersucht. Es finden sich vier Faktoren, die das systematische Risiko dieser Strategiegruppe weitgehend erklären: Das sind die Renditen zweier Optionsstrategien, (1.) einer Short-Put-Positionen auf einen...

This paper explores how affiliation to financial conglomerates affects asset managers' access to capital, trading behavior, and performance. Focusing on a sample of hedge funds, we find that financial-conglomerate-affiliated hedge funds (FCAHFs) have lower flow-performance sensitivity than other...

Hedge fund managers are compensated via management fees on the assets under management (AUM) and incentive fees indexed to the high-water mark (HWM). We study the effects of managerial skills (alpha) and compensation on dynamic leverage choices and the valuation of fees and investors' payoffs....

The purpose of this doctoral thesis is clearly established: to understand whether fund of hedge funds based portable alpha strategies provide tools for better investment results commensurate with risk and costs.A finance literature review is presented, which also delves into the roots of hedge...

We examine the role of hedge funds as primary lenders to corporate firms. We investigate both the reasons and the implications of hedge funds' activities in the primary loan market. We examine the characteristics of firms that borrow from hedge funds and find that borrowers are primarily firms...

By buying convertibles and shorting the underlying stock, hedge funds distribute equity exposure to well-diversified shareholders. We find that a higher fraction of a convertible is privately-placed with hedge funds when institutional ownership, stock liquidity, issue size, concurrent stock...

A recent Washington Post editorial, “The perilous state of pensions,” opined “…public sector pension funds typically incorporate optimistic assumptions about the returns they will earn on their investments…(reducing the assumptions)…would have exposed the emptiness of their past...

In the paper a multivariate unobserved components model for returns and net inflows into hedge funds is employed to assess whether the flows of funds into the industry are dynamically related to returns. The econometric model is used to estimate expected flows and expected returns as unobserved...