This paper tests the performance of 2894 hedge funds in a time period that encompasses unambiguously bullish and bearish trends whose pivot is commonly set at March 2000. Our database proves to be fairly trustable with respect to the most important biases in hedge funds studies, despite the high...

This paper tests the performance of 2894 hedge funds in a time period that encompasses unambiguously bullish and bearish trends whose pivot is commonly set at March 2000. The database proves to be fairly trustable with respect to the most important biases in hedge funds studies, despite the high...

Using one of the largest hedge fund databases ever used (2796 individual funds including 801 dissolved), we investigate hedge funds performance using various asset pricing models, including an extension of Carhart's (1997) specification combined with the Fama and French (1998) and Agarwal and...

Using an original database of 634 market neutral hedge funds, this study formally analyse the market neutrality of market neutral funds which are particular in the hedge fund universe. One of the basic objective of these funds is to provide positive returns completely independently of the market...

Using an original database of 634 market neutral hedge funds, this study formally analyse the market neutrality of market neutral funds which are particular in the hedge fund universe. One of the basic objective of these funds is to provide positive returns completely independently of the market...

This paper extends the Treynor performance ratio for a single index to the case of multiple indexes. The new measure, called the Generalized Treynor Ratio, preserves the same key geometric and analytical properties of the original Treynor Ratio. The Generalized Treynor Ratio is defined as the...

Using a unique database of 990 VC-backed Belgian firms, we study whether compatibility between corporate and environmental characteristics matters. We address two questions: (i) Does the interplay of company, industry, and product factors affect the expected returns of the VC-backed firms? (ii)...

This paper revisits the traditional return-based style analysis (RBSA) in presence of time-varying exposures and errors-in-variables (EIV). We first apply a selection algorithm using the Kalman filter to identify the more appropriate benchmarks for the analysed fund return. Then, we compute...