This paper examines the price impact of trading due to expected changes in the FTSE 100 index composition. We focus on the latter index because it employs publicly-known objective criteria to determine membership and hence it provides a natural context to investigate anticipatory trading...

This paper aims to assess dynamic tail risk exposure in the hedge fund sector using daily data. We use a copula function to model both lower and upper tail dependence between hedge-fund and broad-market returns as a function of market uncertainty. We proxy the latter by means of a single index...