Given the increasing importance of funds of hedge funds in the development of the hedge fund industry and the cost-intensive nature of multi-manager structures, investors are questioning whether FoHF add value to an extent that justifies the extra layer of fees induced by their activity. To...

La gestion alternative connaît actuellement un engouement certain, tant de la part des investisseurs que des gérants qui y voient une parade efficace à la volatilité des marchés financiers. Cet intérêt ne saurait cependant occulter les risques auxquels sont exposés les hedge funds. Cet...

Despite repeated evidence that asset allocation accounts for a very large fraction of a portfolio return, the industry has never stopped favouring stock picking as the preferred form of active investment strategy. In this paper, we attempt to rehabilitate the importance of active asset...