We examine the determinants and consequences of changes in hedge fund fee structures.We show that fee changes are asymmetric with much greater incidence of fee increasescompared to fee decreases. We find that managers of younger and smaller funds are morelikely to increase fees after good...

We explore the relationship between CDS premia and bond asset swap spreads on the samereference entity. As Duffie (1999) shows, there is a clear theoretical link between CDS premiaand bond prices if the two quantities are viewed as a pure measure of credit risk. However,many studies provide...

The trading of securities on multiple markets raises the question of each market’s sharein the discovery of the informationally efficient price. We exploit salient distributionalfeatures of multivariate financial price processes to uniquely determine these contributions.Thereby we resolve the...

Dieses Papier untersucht vier Themenbereiche: Erstens werden die Determinanten der Netto-Zuflüsse in Hedgefonds untersucht. Zweitens betrachten wir die Anreize für das Management von Hedgefonds. Drittens untersuchen wir das Verhalten von Hedgefondsinvestoren. Schliesslich betrachten wir, was...

Recently, there has been explosive growth in two products from the hedge fund industry ⎯ multi-strategy(MS) funds and funds of hedge funds (FOFs), both of which offer diversification across different hedgefund strategies. In well-functioning markets, both investment vehicles should offer...

Dieses Papier beschäftigt sich mit der Performance US-amerikanischer Hedgefonds. DieAutoren widmen sich dabei insbesondere dem Phänomen, dass die durchschnittliche Renditevon Hedgefonds im Dezember signifikant höher ausfällt als die durchschnittlicheMonatsrendite von Januar bis November....

Fama und French (1992, 1993) haben erstmals gezeigt, dass Portfolios aus Unternehmen miteinem hohem Buch-/Marktwertverhältnis (sog. Value Stocks) eine signifikant höheredurchschnittliche Rendite erzielen als Portfolios aus Unternehmen mit einem niedrigenBuch-/Marktwertverhältnis (sog. Growth...

Using a comprehensive hedge fund database, we examine the role of managerial incentivesand discretion in hedge fund performance. Hedge funds with greater managerial incentives,proxied by delta of option-like incentive fee contracts, managerial ownership, and high-watermark provisions, are...

This paper analyzes the risk and rewards of providing liquidity to the convertible bond market.Using daily data on US and Japanese convertible bonds (CBs), we compute returns to a buy-andhedgearbitrage strategy involving a long position in CBs while hedging the equity, credit, andinterest rate...

This paper investigates the role of birth order on managerial behavior using rich data on familial background of US mutual fund managers. We find that managers who are born later in the sibling hierarchy take on more investment risks relative to first-born managers, but perform worse. Motivated...