A closed-end fund, known as an investment trust in the UK and closed-end fund in the US, is a collective investment company that invests in shares of other companies. This study attempts to describe and explain the persistence of the excess discount return on UK investment trusts and US...

In this paper, we studied the monthly returns of hedge funds over the period 1998 to 2003 and found that there are styles of management that affect the performance. We found that differences in investment style contribute about 30 per cent of the variability in hedge funds performance. This...

In this paper, we are using Jensen's alpha, Sharpe ratio and multi-factor models to test the performance of hedge funds for the period 1998 to 2003. Hedge fund returns exhibit a high degree of non-linearity and kurtosis. Our results suggest that for the examined period hedge funds provide...

We are investigating whether hedge fund indexing provide sufficient asset diversification for the private investors and decreased volatility. It is another way to gain access in the hedge fund industry. The traditional way was to invest in different hedge fund categories. Investing directly on...

We are investigating Sharpe, (1992), return based style analysis of equity market neutral hedge funds. The style weights of taking a short position in different assets can be positive or negative. A market neutral strategy combines both long and short positions. The net exposure is equal to...

Funds of hedge funds invest solely in other hedge funds. The hedge fund manager selects funds based on a specific investment strategy or a combination of different investment strategies to achieve a better return. The benefit of combining different investment strategies is to achieve...

We are investigating whether conditioning information affect the performance of UK investment trusts to detect superior performance. Our results suggest that simple unconditional constant models that are used are not valid and are misspecified and biased to measure and evaluate the performance...

We are evaluating the performance of UK investment trusts that are traded in the UK financial market over the period 1990 to 2006. The investment trusts are ranked based on their return, standard deviation, coefficient of variation, Sharpe, Treynor and Jensen risk adjusted returns. The different...

In this paper, we are evaluating performance persistence using Jensen's alpha risk adjusted measures and Sharpe ratio. Our results suggest that investment trusts on average underperform the benchmark indices by 45 basis points per year. Many studies find evidence of performance persistence...