We examine the role of hedge funds as primary lenders to corporate firms. We investigate boththe reasons and the implications of hedge funds’ activities in the primary loan market. Weexamine the characteristics of firms that borrow from hedge funds and find that borrowers areprimarily firms...

In this paper, we identify and document the empirical characteristics of the key drivers ofconvertible arbitrage as a strategy and how they impact the performance of convertible arbitragehedge funds. We show that the returns of a buy-and-hedge strategy involving taking a longposition in...

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...

This paper studies the “confidential holdings” of institutional investors, especially hedge funds, where thequarter-end equity holdings are disclosed with a significant delay through amendments to the Form 13F.Our evidence supports hiding private information as the dominant motive for hedge...

This paper is a first study to formally analyze the biases related to self-reporting in the hedgefunds databases by matching the quarterly equity holdings of a complete list of 13F-filing hedge fundcompanies to the union of five major commercial databases of self-reporting hedge funds between...

Using 13F position valuations, we show that hedge fund advisors intentionallymismark their stock positions. We document manipulation even after eliminatingissues inherent in the pricing of illiquid securities. The documented mismarking isrelated to hedge fund incentives. Mismarking is more...

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 a rapid growth in the assets managed by “hedged mutual funds” – mutual fundsmimicking hedge funds strategies. In this paper, we examine the performance of these funds relative tohedge funds and traditional mutual funds. We find that despite their use of similar trading...

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....