This chapter provides a perspective on the rapidly developing literature on investment performance evaluation. I use the stochastic discount factor approach to present and critique current performance measurement techniques in a unified setting. I offer a number of suggestions to improve...

Using a novel dataset on correlation swaps, we study the relation between correlation risk, hedge fund characteristics and their risk-return profile. We find that hedge funds' ability to create market neutral returns is often associated with a significant exposure to correlation risk, which...

We study how capital flows affect hedge fund returns. The contemporaneous relation is positive: funds with high flows outperform funds with low flows during the month of the flows. This immediate reaction, combined with feedback trading, gives rise to a cycle: flows exert price pressure, this...

To identify capacity constraints in hedge funds and simultaneously gauge how well-informed hedge fund investors are, we need measures of investor demand that do not affect deployed hedge fund assets. Using new data on investor interest from a secondary market for hedge funds, this paper verifies...

Hedge Fund returns are often highly serially correlated mainly due to illiquidity exposures given that investments in such securities tend to be inactively traded and associated market prices are not always readily available. Following that, observed returns of such alternative investments tend...

One can consider the concept of market neutrality as having quot;breadthquot; and quot;depthquot;: quot;Breadthquot; reflects the number of market risks to which the hedge fund is neutral, while quot;depthquot; reflects the quot;completenessquot; of the neutrality of the fund to market risks. We...

We investigate whether market makers with inventory concerns are compensated with subsequent monthly returns in the cross-section. We find a significant negative relation between order flows and monthly returns, “the order flow effect”, suggesting that market makers lower prices for stocks...