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, while mutual fund strategies are largely trend following. The only institutional performers---the 2/3 of hedge fund managers … that are contrarian---earn alpha of 2.4% per year. Contrarian hedge fund managers tend to trade profitably with all other … manager types, especially when purchasing stocks from momentum-oriented hedge and mutual fund managers. Superior contrarian …
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managers that are contrarian — earn alpha of 2.4% per year. Contrarian hedge fund managers tend to trade profitably with all … other manager types, especially when purchasing stocks from momentum-oriented hedge and mutual fund managers. Superior …
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This paper examines the effect of investor-level real-world investment constraints, including several which had not been studied before, on hedge fund performance and its persistence. Using a large consolidated database, we demonstrate that hedge fund performance persistence is significantly...
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Hedge fund activism generates persistent performance, but heterogeneity in performance suggests that some hedge fund activists are more skilled than others. We use a Markov Chain Monte Carlo Bayesian estimation algorithm to isolate a time-invariant activist-specific skill component from...
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While it is established that idiosyncratic volatility has a negative impact on the cross-section of future stock returns, the relationship between idiosyncratic volatility and future hedge fund returns is largely unexplored. We document that hedge funds with high idiosyncratic volatility...
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