Hedge funds have increased their assets over the past decades. In this paper, we consider the added value of hedge funds in a portfolio dominated by investment trusts. The sample is provided from Data Feeder dataset. It is very comprehensive and includes event driven hedge funds for the period...

In this article, we measure the alpha and beta of high volatility commodity futures contracts of hedge funds. The futures contracts under study are gold, silver, zinc, palladium and platinum. Combining managed futures with shares and bonds provide better returns with lower risk or mean variance...

In this article, we examine how event driven hedge funds performance is affected by risks in terms of bid ask spreads, settlement risk, short squeeze risk and financing risk. The fund manager primarily is targeting financial, micro and macro economic or political events, corporate events that...

In this article, we apply a logit and probit regression to test high water marks, incentive fees and lock-up periods of emerging hedge funds category. Emerging markets hedge funds invests primarily in countries that have a closed market economy and are in the process of developing and expanding...

In this article, we investigated a sample of 773 hedge funds to test performance persistence in different time periods. We bootstrapped on the average monthly returns over successive years over the whole period starting from 01/01/1990 to 01/01/2003. The estimated and simulated return was...

This article aims at testing empirically the performance persistence of global macro hedge funds. Global macro hedge fund manager focus to generate positive returns based on currency futures and options. He focused on fixed – income securities derivatives products or stock indices futures and...

This article aims at testing empirically the performance persistence of emerging market hedge funds. Emerging market hedge funds invests primarily in countries that have a closed market economy and are in the process of developing and expanding its infrastructure such as Brazil, India, Latin...