HEDGE FUND STRATEGIES: PERFORMANCE, RISK AND DIVERSIFICATION OPPORTUNITIES / Hedge Fon Stratejileri: Performans, Risk Ve Çeşitlendirme Fırsatları

Hedge Fund Risk Modeling

Hedge fund systemic risk signals

In this paper we realize an early warning system for hedge funds based on specific red flags that help to detect symptoms of impending extreme negative returns and contagion effect. To do this we rely on regression trees analysis identifying a series of splitting rules which act as risk signals. The empirical findings prove that contagion, crowded-trade, leverage commonality and liquidity conce...

The Risk in Hedge Fund Strategies : Theory and

Theory suggests that long/short equity hedge funds’ returns come from long/short as well as directional exposure to the stock market and the fees related to stock loans. Empirical analysis finds persistent net exposures to the spread between small versus large cap stocks in addition to the overall market. Together, these factors account for over 80% of return variation. Additional factors are p...

Hedge Fund Performance Evaluation:

We analyze hedge fund performance using the stochastic discount factor (SDF) approach and imposing the arbitrage-free requirement to correctly value the derivatives and dynamic trading strategies used by hedge funds. Using SDFs of many asset-pricing models, we evaluate hedge fund portfolios based on style and characteristics. Without the arbitrage-free requirement, pricing errors are relatively...

Sentiment Risk and Hedge Fund Returns

This paper documents a new and important cross-sectional determinant of hedge fund returns, their exposures to sentiment risk, measured as beta of fund returns to fluctuations in sentiment proxies. For a large sample of equity-oriented hedge funds, those whose sentiment beta ranks in the top decile subsequently outperform the bottom decile by 0.67% per month, after controlling for fund’s exposu...