This paper examines the causes and consequences of hedge fund investments in exchange traded funds (ETFs) using U.S. data from 1998 to 2018. The data indicate that transient hedge funds and quasi-indexer hedge funds are substantially more likely to invest in ETFs. Unexpected hedge fund inflows...

Hedge fund managers differ in ability and investors want to distinguish good ones from bad. Via the design of their investment strategies, better fund managers want to ease this inference problem while worse fund managers want to complicate it. We impose only the minimal restrictions on the...

This paper analyzes the geographical preferences of hedge fund investors and the implication of these preferences for hedge fund performance. We find that funds of hedge funds overweight their investments in hedge funds located in the same geographical areas and that funds of funds with a...

Chapter 1: Beyond the Surface: In-depth Perspectives on Liquidity and Risk Frontiers -- Chapter 2: Unlocking the Microstructure of Liquidity Risk: Understanding Interactions with other Financial Risks and Best Practices in Oversight and Governance -- Chapter 3: Crises to Opportunities:...

In this article, we examine offshore hedge funds performance that pursues leveraged activities based on distressed securities. Distressed securities are related to the corporate bonds of bankrupted companies that start to get out from the crisis and are trying to reduce their loan exposures in...

This paper describes how macroeconomic factors are used to aid in the decision-making process of allocating capital to hedge fund managers (applicable to traditional managers as well). A comparison is made between traditional portfolio construction methods and the Dynamic Asset Allocation...