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This paper looks at the future of hedge funds, the challenges they face, and how they can remain successful going forward.
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As alternative investment strategies gained increasing acceptance, the past couple of years turned into boom years for hedge funds and funds-of-hedge-funds, bringing increased visibility to the entire industry. But under that spotlight, when mis-steps involving back office operational risk and...
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Most research on the performance and risk of hedge funds are based on calculations that just use the data from one index provider. Also most product providers and even more and more investors are using hedge fund indices for benchmarking purposes. As some academic articles pointed out, the world...
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Limited partners (LPs) of private equity funds commit to invest with extreme levels of illiquidity and significant uncertainty regarding the timing of capital flows. Secondary markets have emerged which alleviate some of the associated cost. This paper develops a subjective valuation model...
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After taking into account biases induced by infrequent trading and selection, it is unlikely that illiquid asset classes have higher risk-adjusted returns than traditional liquid stock and bond markets. On the other hand, there are significant illiquidity premiums within asset classes. Portfolio...
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We present comprehensive evidence in support of giving liquidity equal standing to size, value/growth, and momentum as … investment styles, as defined by Sharpe (1992). First, we show that financial market liquidity, as identified by stock turnover …, is an economically significant indicator of long-term returns. Then, we show that liquidity, as a characteristic, is not …
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effects from insufficient market liquidity. A typical method to manage these price impact effects is to split a given order …
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-term investors are sensitive to interest rate movements and supply liquidity, whereas mutual funds, with shorter investment horizon … and benchmark constraints, demand liquidity. Price impact increased post-crisis for all institutions and has remained … higher than the pre-crisis levels, signaling a general decline in bond market liquidity due perhaps to regulatory changes in …
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average, institutional shareholders are net sellers during share repurchases. After controlling for liquidity provision and … attributed to institutional investors executing liquidity provision strategies, 8% is explained by institutions reacting to the …
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