This article aims at testing empirically the performance persistence of equity market neutral hedge funds. A market neutral strategy combines both long and short positions. The net exposure is equal to zero. The purpose of using such strategy is to eliminate the market risk. Guirguis,(2005),...

This article aims at testing empirically the performance persistence of convertible arbitrage hedge funds. The overall objective and aim of this category is the use of convertible securities. It is expected that the performance of the fund will be greater than the benchmark by using a long...

This article aims at testing empirically the performance persistence of managed futures hedge funds. CTA, commodity trading advisers, or managed futures managers’ trade in the commodity market. Hedge funds use managed futures in terms of indices, treasuries, fixed –income securities and...

This article aims at testing empirically the performance persistence of fixed income arbitrage hedge funds. These funds engage principally in arbitrage strategies in the global corporate debt securities markets taking advantage of mispricing. Fixed income arbitrage funds take advantage of...

This article aims at testing empirically the performance persistence of distressed securities hedge funds. Distressed securities are related to the corporate bonds of bankrupted companies that start to get out from the crisis and are trying to reduce their loan exposures in the market. Hedge...

This article examines performance persistence of 773 hedge funds from the period 1990 to 2003. The sample is free of survivorship bias, backfill, and selection bias. We find evidence of managerial positive performance persistence using multi-factor models. Performance is measured by Jensen’s...

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...

We analyze the gamma effect on a call Nordea option delta and how a hedge position is achieved. There is significant time variation in the gamma effect on a call Nordea option delta and the traditional Black – Scholes model can not explain this deviation. The Black – Scholes model is used to...

In this article, we test the effects of the volatility of Gaussian distribution monthly returns of commodity futures contracts of a hedge fund portfolio. We test a linear Gaussian state space model and the Kalman filter ARMA(2,4) model of the natural logarithmic monthly market returns of the of...

In this article, we use a virtual example of currencies portfolio by implying hedgers, arbitrageurs and speculators and how to balance their emotions based on the Greek Christian Orthodox approach. Arbitrageurs or rational investors would open a short position to the system of expensive...