Sustainability performance management is a newly emerging term in the debate about business and corporate social responsibility. It aims at addressing the social, environmental and economic (performance) aspects of corporate management in general, and of corporate sustainability management in...

We investigate why top performing hedge funds are successful. We find evidence that top performing hedge funds follow a different strategy than mediocre performing hedge funds as they accept fewer risk factors that mostly anticipate the troubling economic conditions prevailing after 2006....

Hedge Funds are often considered as a possibility for optimizing traditional portfolios due to their alternative risk factors and sources of return. But as the return distribution of hedge funds shows negative skewness and excess kurtosis, using portfolio optimization techniques, based on the...