This paper investigates the valuation effects of industry rivals to firms targeted by hedge funds and private equity investors. We argue that both types of investors differ from other blockholders due to their strong motivation and ability to actively engage and monitor. By changing a target...

This paper analyzes market reactions triggered by announcements that hedge funds and private equity investors have purchased large blocks of voting rights. We argue that changes in shareholder wealth are related to the opportunity, possibility, and motivation of being an active blockholder who...

In this paper we optimize a hedge fund portfolio considering higher moments of the different hedge fund strategy return distributions. We replace the empirical return distributions which are often skewed or exhibit excess-kurtosis with two normal distributions to approximate a best-fit...

This paper analyzes market reactions triggered by announcements that hedge funds and private equity investors purchase large blocks of voting rights. We argue that changes in share-holder's wealth are related to the opportunity, possibility and motivation of being an active blockholder, who...