The world of hedge funds : characteristics and analysis /

Other Authors: Fong, H. Gifford.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New Jersey : World Scientific, ©2005.
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505 8 |a 3.5 Active versus passive portfolio management3.6 Comparison with portfolio-composition-based style analysis; 4 Choosing Style Benchmarks; 4.1 Asset class misspecification; 4.2 Number of asset classes; 4.3 Sector indexes; 4.4 Low R2 as an indicator of active management; 4.5 Style consistency and changes in management; 4.6 Manager universes and peer evaluation; 5 Style Analysis of Hedge Funds; 5.1 Additional asset classes for return-based style analysis of hedge funds; 5.2 Characterizing the risk in two hedge fund strategies: merger arbitrage and market timing. 
505 8 |a 5.3 Index choice and survivorship bias5.4 Equity-oriented strategies; 5.5 Stepwise regression to identify major exposures; 6 Conclusions; Acknowledgments; Appendix A: Asset classes; Appendix B: Growth and income funds -- objective and investment strategy; Appendix C: HFR hedge fund classes; Notes; References; Chapter 5 Alternative Investments: CTAs, Hedge Funds, and Funds-of-Funds Bing Liang; 1 Introduction; 2 Data; 3 Performance, Risk, and Fee Structures; 3.1 Performance and risk; 3.2 The asset class factor model. 
650 0 |a Hedge funds. 
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