Download or read book Hedge Fund Replication Using a Strategy Specific Modeling Approach written by Sujit Subhash and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Institutional investors and wealthy individuals have in the past allocated a significant portion of their portfolios to hedge funds with the expectation of unconditional and uncorrelated returns to the market. However, the financial crisis of 2008 has heightened investor sensitivity to the high fees, illiquidity, and lockup periods typically associated with hedge funds. Hedge fund indexes showing excellent returns and low volatility contain funds that are closed to new investments, while the performance of investable funds have been shown to be inferior to their non-investable counterparts. The lack of transparency and extreme variation in the performance of hedge funds make the due diligence process critical in selecting the right fund. These challenges have motivated a search for an alternative to hedge funds. Recent research has established that a significant part of hedge fund returns can be replicated by portfolios constructed using liquid financial instruments. Hedge fund replication products, or clones, answer several challenges faced by hedge fund investors by providing daily liquidity, easy monitoring, and complete transparency at a significant cost advantage to hedge funds. This thesis examines the performance of clones constructed with factors selected based on the economic relevance to each hedge fund strategy by using both a passive model with constant portfolio weights, and an active model requiring monthly rebalancing of portfolio weights. These clones are further compared against the top performing hedge funds to analyze if the clones continue to deliver against a higher benchmark with regard to both risk and return"--Abstract, page iv.
Download or read book Alternative Beta Strategies and Hedge Fund Replication written by Lars Jaeger and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2008-10-13 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There s a buzzword that has quickly captured the imagination of product providers and investors alike: "hedge fund replication". In the broadest sense, replicating hedge fund strategies means replicating their return sources and corresponding risk exposures. However, there still lacks a coherent picture on what hedge fund replication means in practice, what its premises are, how to distinguish di erent approaches, and where this can lead us to. Serving as a handbook for replicating the returns of hedge funds at considerably lower cost, Alternative Beta Strategies and Hedge Fund Replication provides a unique focus on replication, explaining along the way the return sources of hedge funds, and their systematic risks, that make replication possible. It explains the background to the new discussion on hedge fund replication and how to derive the returns of many hedge fund strategies at much lower cost, it differentiates the various underlying approaches and explains how hedge fund replication can improve your own investment process into hedge funds. Written by the well known Hedge Fund expert and author Lars Jaeger, the book is divided into three sections: Hedge Fund Background, Return Sources, and Replication Techniques. Section one provides a short course in what hedge funds actually are and how they operate, arming the reader with the background knowledge required for the rest of the book. Section two illuminates the sources from which hedge funds derive their returns and shows that the majority of hedge fund returns derive from systematic risk exposure rather than manager "Alpha". Section three presents various approaches to replicating hedge fund returns by presenting the first and second generation of hedge fund replication products, points out the pitfalls and strengths of the various approaches and illustrates the mathematical concepts that underlie them. With hedge fund replication going mainstream, this book provides clear guidance on the topic to maximise returns.
Download or read book Hedge Fund Replication written by Michael S. O'Doherty and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recent years have seen increased demand from institutional investors for passive replication products that track the performance of hedge fund strategies using liquid investable assets such as futures contracts. In practice, linear replication methods suffer from poor tracking performance and high turnover. We propose a model combination approach to index replication that pools information from a diverse set of pre-specified factor models. Compared to existing methods, the pooled clone strategies yield consistently lower tracking errors, generate less severe portfolio drawdowns, and require substantially smaller trading volume. The pooled hedge fund clones also provide economic benefits in a portfolio allocation context.
Download or read book Replicating Hedge Fund Returns written by Omar Naser and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Growth in the Hedge Fund industry mirrors the growth in the Mutual Fund industry. This raises the possibility of creating a passive strategy that replicates Hedge Fund returns at lower cost using liquid, exchange-traded instruments. Using monthly returns for the period 1991-2005 on thirteen Hedge Fund strategies, I build a linear factor models ("clones") that replicate Hedge Fund returns. I use six common factors to determine the amount of expected return and variation in returns that can be explained by these factors alone. I find that for certain strategies "clones" outperform their Hedge Fund counterparts on an absolute basis, and clones outperform on a risk adjusted basis for all strategies. This finding merits serious consideration by institutional investors whose goals of transparency, liquidity, and lower fees conflict with those of Hedge Funds.
Download or read book Hedge Fund Replication written by G. Gregoriou and published by Springer. This book was released on 2011-11-07 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While there may be a consensus in the industry that hedge funds clones will bring better liquidity and lower fees, it is still debatable whether replication products should serve as a complement in the hedge fund allocation decision or as a replacement. This book offers the reader valuable insights into the thinking behind hedge fund replication.
Download or read book Hedge Fund Modelling and Analysis Using Excel and VBA written by Paul Darbyshire and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2012-03-05 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Co-authored by two respected authorities on hedge funds and asset management, this implementation-oriented guide shows you how to employ a range of the most commonly used analysis tools and techniques both in industry and academia, for understanding, identifying and managing risk as well as for quantifying return factors across several key investment strategies. The book is also suitable for use as a core textbook for specialised graduate level courses in hedge funds and alternative investments. The book provides hands-on coverage of the visual and theoretical methods for measuring and modelling hedge fund performance with an emphasis on risk-adjusted performance metrics and techniques. A range of sophisticated risk analysis models and risk management strategies are also described in detail. Throughout, coverage is supplemented with helpful skill building exercises and worked examples in Excel and VBA. The book's dedicated website, www.darbyshirehampton.com provides Excel spreadsheets and VBA source code which can be freely downloaded and also features links to other relevant and useful resources. A comprehensive course in hedge fund modelling and analysis, this book arms you with the knowledge and tools required to effectively manage your risks and to optimise the return profile of your investment style.
Download or read book Market Risk Management for Hedge Funds written by Francois Duc and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2010-04-01 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a cutting edge introduction to market risk management for Hedge Funds, Hedge Funds of Funds, and the numerous new indices and clones launching coming to market on a near daily basis. It will present the fundamentals of quantitative risk measures by analysing the range of Value-at-Risk (VaR) models used today, addressing the robustness of each model, and looking at new risk measures available to more effectively manage risk in a hedge fund portfolio. The book begins by analysing the current state of the hedge fund industry - at the ongoing institutionalisation of the market, and at its latest developments. It then moves on to examine the range of risks, risk controls, and risk management strategies currently employed by practitioners, and focuses on particular risks embedded in the more classic investment strategies such as Long/Short, Convertible Arbitrage, Fixed Income Arbitrage, Short selling and risk arbitrage. Addressed along side these are other risks common to hedge funds, including liquidity risk, leverage risk and counterparty risk. The book then moves on to examine more closely two models which provide the underpinning for market risk management in investment today - Style Value-at-Risk and Implicit Value-at-Risk. As well as full quantitative analysis and backtesting of each methodology, the authors go on to propose a new style model for style and implicit Var, complete with analysis, real life examples and backtesting. The authors then go on to discuss annualisation issues and risk return before moving on to propose a new model based on the authors own Best Choice Implicit VaR approach, incorporating quantitative analysis, market results and backtesting and also its potential for new hedge fund clone products. This book is the only guide to VaR for Hedge Funds and will prove to be an invaluable resource as we embark into an era of increasing volatility and uncertainty.
Download or read book Hedge Fund Modelling and Analysis using MATLAB written by Paul Darbyshire and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2014-03-27 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second book in Darbyshire and Hampton’s Hedge Fund Modelling and Analysis series, Hedge Fund Modelling and Analysis Using MATLAB® takes advantage of the huge library of built-in functions and suite of financial and analytic packages available to MATLAB®. This allows for a more detailed analysis of some of the more computationally intensive and advanced topics, such as hedge fund classification, performance measurement and mean-variance optimisation. Darbyshire and Hampton’s first book in the series, Hedge Fund Modelling and Analysis Using Excel & and VBA, is seen as a valuable supplementary text to this book. Starting with an overview of the hedge fund industry the book then looks at a variety of commercially available hedge fund data sources. After covering key statistical techniques and methods, the book discusses mean-variance optimisation, hedge fund classification and performance with an emphasis on risk-adjusted return metrics. Finally, common hedge fund market risk management techniques, such as traditional Value-at-Risk methods, modified extensions and expected shortfall are covered. The book’s dedicated website, www.darbyshirehampton.com provides free downloads of all the data and MATLAB® source code, as well as other useful resources. Hedge Fund Modelling and Analysis Using MATLAB® serves as a definitive introductory guide to hedge fund modelling and analysis and will provide investors, industry practitioners and students alike with a useful range of tools and techniques for analysing and estimating alpha and beta sources of return, performing manager ranking and market risk management.
Download or read book Essays on Hedge Fund Replication written by Guillaume Weisang and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Evaluating Hedge Funds with Pooled Benchmarks written by Michael S. O'Doherty and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The evaluation of hedge fund performance is challenging given the flexible nature of hedge funds' strategies and their lack of operational transparency. As a result inference about skill is inevitably contaminated by the error in the benchmark model. To address this concern, we propose a model pooling approach to develop a fund-specific benchmark obtained by pooling a set of diverse attribution models. We illustrate the advantages of a pooled benchmark over alternative approaches, including the Fung and Hsieh (2004) model and stepwise regression methods, in the contexts of a real-time investment strategy, hedge fund replication, and fund failure prediction.
Download or read book A Learning Based Linear Replicator for Hedge Fund Indexes written by Fei Pan and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There has been great interest in creating portfolios using common liquid instruments to replicate hedge fund returns. In a recent article, Hasanhodzic and Lo (2007) demonstrate that a factor-based approach based on a linear regression model with 5 tradable risk factors can adequately replicate monthly returns of 1,610 hedge funds in 1986 to 2005. We propose a learning-based linear replication algorithm to enhance the linear model. Results show that our approach can improve the replicating capability of linear replicator, especially for some nonlinear and dynamic strategies, e.g., Event-driven and Emerging Markets. The annualized root mean squared error is improved by 40% and 34%, respectively. The new method can automatically detect the market changes and separate return points into different polyhedral regions, even high dimensions (multiple risk factors). By using 12 major strategy indexes' monthly returns compiled by 7 data vendors from their inception date until December 2008, we examine our method with six common risk factors and find that our algorithm can improve explanatory of hedge fund index returns. The performance of our new replicator is also tested by cloning out-of-sample monthly returns through using five out of these six factors.
Download or read book Factor Based Hedge Fund Replication with Risk Constraints written by Richard D. F. Harris and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this paper, we propose a method for hedge fund replication using a factor-based model supplemented with a series of risk and return constraints that implicitly target all the moments of the hedge fund return distribution. We use the approach to replicate the monthly returns of ten broad hedge fund strategy indices, using long-only positions in ten equity, bond, foreign exchange, and commodity indices, all of which can be traded using liquid, investible instruments such as futures, options and exchange traded funds. In out-of-sample tests, our approach provides an improvement over the pure factor-based model, offering a closer match to both the return performance and risk characteristics of the hedge fund strategy indices.
Download or read book Hedge Funds written by H. Kent Baker and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017-07-26 with total page 697 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hedge Funds: Structure, Strategies, and Performance provides a synthesis of the theoretical and empirical literature on this intriguing, complex, and frequently misunderstood topic. The book dispels some common misconceptions of hedge funds, showing that they are not a monolithic asset class but pursue highly diverse strategies. Furthermore, not all hedge funds are unusually risky, excessively leveraged, invest only in illiquid asses, attempt to profit from short-term market movements, or only benefit hedge fund managers due to their high fees. Among the core issues addressed are how hedge funds are structured and how they work, hedge fund strategies, leading issues in this investment, and the latest trends and developments. The authors examine hedge funds from a range of perspectives, and from the theoretical to the practical. The book explores the background, organization, and economics of hedge funds, as well as their structure. A key part is the diverse investment strategies hedge funds follow, for example some are activists, others focusing on relative value, and all have views on managing risk. The book examines various ways to evaluate hedge fund performance, and enhances understanding of their regulatory environment. The extensive and engaging examination of these issues help the reader understands the important issues and trends facing hedge funds, as well as their future prospects.
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Download or read book Create Your Own Hedge Fund written by Mark D. Wolfinger and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2005-01-28 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover a practical trading strategy that combines options and ETFs. Create Your Own Hedge Fund explains how exchange-traded funds can be used in conjunction with an options strategy to attain steady growth. Beginning with a tutorial on options and ETFs, the book goes on to describe both investment approaches in great detail providing you with a trading strategy that generates higher returns than buy-and-hold investing -- and allows you to reduce risk by adopting a hedging strategy. Filled with in-depth insights and expert advice, this book is intended for you if you're a sophisticated individual investor or a professional investor, trader, or other money manager looking to update your arsenal of investment tools. Order your copy today!
Download or read book Hedge Fund Replication written by Roman Tancar and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This article introduces the concept of asymmetric hedge fund replication based on the risk factor model approach. The presented methodology is founded on downside risk management and offers an enhancement of existing hedge fund replication techniques. From a conceptual perspective, asymmetric hedge fund replication enables investors to achieve superior risk-adjusted performance in cases in which precise target tracking is not imperative. Along with the introduction of the asymmetric hedge fund replication, a new classification framework of replication methodologies is discussed, in which the replication objective is the center point. The out-of-sample performance of the presented approach is examined in an exemplary empirical replication of two major hedge fund sector indices with a popular factor model setting used in previous studies. Finally, aMonte Carlo study is conducted in which the authors simulate hedge fund returns and examine the out-of-sample performance. The comparison to standard hedge fund replication reveals the characteristic risk-return profile of the asymmetric approach. In sum, the risk-adjusted performance increases at the cost of target replication accuracy.The results of the short study support all aspects of the authors' conceptual hypothesis and justify more extensive investigations.
Download or read book An Alternative Approach to Alternative Beta written by Thierry Roncalli and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 17 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hedge fund replication based on factor models is encountering growing interest. In this paper, we investigate the implications of substituting standard rolling windows regressions, which appear ad-hoc, with more efficient methodologies like the Kalman Filter. We show that the copycats constructed this way offer risk-return profiles which share several characteristics with the ones posted by hedge funds indices: Sharpe ratios above buy-and-hold strategies on standard assets, moderate correlation with standard assets and limited drawdowns during equity downward trends. An interesting result is that the shortfall risk seems less important than with hedge fund indices and regressions based-trackers. We finally propose new breakdowns of hedge fund performance into alpha, traditional beta and alternative beta.
