Hedge funds earn positive ex-post abnormal returns and avoid negative abnormal returns on their equity portfolios when trading in the opposite direction of highly-diversified low-turnover institutional investors (quasi-indexers). This pattern is pronounced for short- and long-term holding...

Analyzing trading of hedge funds facing substantial outflows, we find that hedge funds that trade against the flow display significant stock-picking skills. Stocks purchased by hedge funds facing large outflows deliver positive ex-post abnormal returns. Such “revealed under pressure”...

Numerous hedge funds stop reporting to commercial databases each year. An issue for hedgefund performance estimation is: what delisting return to attribute to such funds? This would be particularly problematic if delisting returns are typically very different from continuing funds' returns. In...

This dissertation consists of four stand-alone research papers which investigate various aspects of hedge fund performance and optimal portfolio choice. The first chapter of this thesis deals with the problem of unobserved hedge fund returns after delisting. It is a joint work with Prof. Jens...

Numerous hedge funds stop reporting to commercial databases each year. An issue for hedgefund performance estimation is: what delisting return to attribute to such funds? This would be particularly problematic if delisting returns are typically very different from continuing funds' returns. In...