This paper investigates the extent to which market risk, residual risk, and tail risk explain the cross sectional … dispersion in hedge fund returns. The paper introduces a comprehensive measure of systematic risk (SR) for individual hedge funds … by breaking up total risk into systematic and fund specific or residual risk components. Contrary to the popular …

This paper examines the extent to which idiosyncratic risk measures explain cross-sectional differences in hedge fund … momentum effects. Idiosyncratic risk is a powerful factor in explaining the cross-sectional variation in hedge fund returns …

This paper investigates the extent to which market risk, residual risk, and tail risk explain the cross sectional … dispersion in hedge fund returns. The paper introduces a comprehensive measure of systematic risk (SR) for individual hedge funds … by breaking up total risk into systematic and fund specific or residual risk components. Contrary to the popular …

This paper investigates the extent to which market risk, residual risk, and tail risk explain the cross sectional … dispersion in hedge fund returns. The paper introduces a comprehensive measure of systematic risk (SR) for individual hedge funds … by breaking up total risk into systematic and fund specific or residual risk components. Contrary to the popular …

This paper estimates hedge fund and mutual fund exposure to newly proposed measures of macroeconomic risk that are … no significant relationship. After controlling for a large set of fund characteristics and risk factors considered in … statistically significant. Hence, we argue that macroeconomic risk is a powerful determinant of cross-sectional differences in hedge …

This paper estimates hedge fund and mutual fund exposure to newly proposed measures of macroeconomic risk that are … no significant relationship. After controlling for a large set of fund characteristics and risk factors considered in … statistically significant. Hence, we argue that macroeconomic risk is a powerful determinant of cross-sectional differences in hedge …

robust and significant negative risk premium for VOV exposure in the crosssection of hedge fund returns. We further show that … uncertainty in the market is less. Furthermore, the variation in the VOV betas is consistent with the risk-taking incentives of …

set of fund characteristics, we document a robust and significant negative risk premium for VOV exposure in the cross … of hedge funds is distinct from that of mutual funds and is consistent with the dynamic trading of hedge funds and risk …

Academic criticism of classic Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM) performance measures is not new. In particular, a … involves taking on some implicit short options risk.This article will briefly touch on the problems with using traditional …

This paper investigates hedge funds' exposures to various financial and macroeconomic risk factors through alternative …