Standard risk metrics tend to underestimate the true risks of hedge funds because of serial correlation in the reported returns. Getmansky, Lo, and Makarov (2004) derive mean, variance, Sharpe ratio, and beta formulae adjusted for serial correlation. Following their lead, we derive adjusted...

Recent cases of hedge fund fraud have caused large losses for investors and have fueled the debate regarding the ability of regulators to oversee the industry. This paper proposes a set of performance flags, based on suspicious patterns in returns, as indicators of a heightened risk of fraud. We...

This paper formally analyzes the biases related to self-reporting in hedge fund databases by matching the quarterly equity holdings of a complete list of 13F-filing hedge fund companies to the union of five major commercial databases of self-reporting hedge funds between 1980 and 2008. We find...

This study questions the rationality of people investing in HFs. I use a sample of London listed closed-end hedge funds to evaluate two criteria that imply irrational behavior. I find that the rationality of investors can not be rejected for the majority of time. However, the results also imply...

This paper investigates the systematic role of limits to arbitrage in the risk and return profile of hedge funds. We follow He et al. (2017) and define these frictions in financial markets as the shocks to the equity capital ratio of primary dealer counterparties of the New York Federal Reserve....

We examine the performance life cycle of hedge funds. Performance declines with age are pervasive, not just for the average fund, but also for past winners and for funds with characteristics that predict cross-sectional returns. Fund growth and decreasing performance incentives appear to...

Early studies show that hedge fund performance is correlated across funds. I empirically document that similarities in hedge fund returns are associated with the presence of the same prime broker. Using data on prime brokerage relationships from 2000 to 2012, I estimate that dealing with the...

We provide novel evidence that hedge fund performance is persistent following weak hedge fund markets, but is not persistent following strong markets. Specifically, we construct two performance measures, RET_DOWN and RET_UP, conditioned on the level of overall hedge fund sector returns. After...

This paper investigates the information content of aggregate hedge fund flow and its predictive power with respect to bond yields. Using a sample of 9,725 hedge funds from 1994 to 2012, we find that fund flow is negatively related to the changes in 10-year Treasury and Moody's Baa bond yields...

Performance related compensation (skewed toward the attainment of predefined target rates) is a critical incentive attracting and retaining talent by the hedge fund industry. The hedge fund community is still recovering from the recent global and regional crises that have put hedge fund...