Financial Risk Management – Models, History, and Institutions By Allan M. Malz Reviewed by Bruce Grantier View PDF… Read more
2nd Quarter (2012)
BOOK REVIEWS: Financial Risk Management – Models, History, and Institutions
Volume 10, Number 2, Second Quarter 2012 Financial Risk Management – Models, History, and Institutions By Allan M. Malz Reviewed by Bruce Grantier View PDF… Read more
CASE STUDIES: The Race Between the Work Force and Investment
Jack L. Treynor View PDF… Read more
The Downside of High Water Marks: An Empirical Study
Sugata Ray Using a large sample of hedge funds, I study the effects of the high water mark (HWM) on fund performance, risk, and fund closure. I find that as funds fall below the HWM, the standard deviation of future returns increases, the future expected Sharpe ratio decreases, and the incidence of fund closure increases… Read more
Insights: On the Kurz Model of Asset Prices with Rational Beliefs
Craig W. French Mordecai Kurz has proposed an asset pricing model incorporating endogenous uncertainty. Kurz contrasts Rational Belief Equilibrium (RBE) with the more familiar theory of Rational Expectations Equilibrium (REE). In RBE, the aggregate market will generally misprice assets and stock returns can be explained by forecasting mistakes of investors. RBE suggests a strong basis… Read more
Hedge-Fund Performance and Liquidity Risk
Ronnie Sadka This paper demonstrates that liquidity risk as measured by the covariation of fund returns with unexpected changes in aggregate liquidity is an important predictor of hedge fund performance. The results show that funds that significantly load on liquidity risk subsequently outperform low-loading funds by about 6.5% annually, on average, over the period 1994… Read more
Asset Allocation Dynamics in the Hedge Fund Industry
Li Cai and Bing Liang This paper examines asset allocation dynamics of hedge funds through conducting optimal change point test on an asset class factor model. Based on the average F-test and the Bayesian Information Criterion (BIC), we find that more dynamic hedge funds exhibit significantly better quality than less dynamic funds, signaled by lower… Read more
Liquidity Shocks and Hedge Fund Contagion
Nicole M. Boyson, Christof W. Stahel and René M. Stulz In Boyson, Stahel, and Stulz (2010), we investigate whether hedge funds experience worst return contagion that is, correlations in extremely poor returns that are over and above those expected from economic fundamentals. We find strong evidence of contagion among hedge funds using eight separate style… Read more
PRACTITIONER’S DIGEST
Volume 10, Number 2, (2012) View PDF… Read more