Further Evidence on Hedge Funds Performance

Claus Bang Christiansen, Peter Brink Madsen and Michael Christensen ()
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Claus Bang Christiansen: Department of Finance, Aarhus School of Business, Postal: Fuglesangs Allé 4, 8210 Aarhus V, Denmark
Peter Brink Madsen: Department of Finance, Aarhus School of Business, Postal: Fuglesangs Allé 4, 8210 Aarhus V, Denmark
Michael Christensen: Department of Finance, Aarhus School of Business, Postal: Fuglesangs Allé 4, 8210 Aarhus V, Denmark

No 03-5, Finance Working Papers from University of Aarhus, Aarhus School of Business, Department of Business Studies

Abstract: In this analysis we identify dynamic hedge fund strategies quantitatively pursuing a Principal Component Analysis following Fung and Hsieh (1997). We extract five dominant hedge

fund strategies each representing similar investment styles and analyse the performance of each strategy by employing a multi-factor model comprising both market indices and passive option strategies along the lines of Agerwal and Naik (2000).

We find that the majority of the five homogenous strategies show superior performance. However, correcting for survivorship bias this superior performance disappears.

Keywords: Hedge funds; Investment in securities; Performance; Dynamic strategies; Hedge funds performance (search for similar items in EconPapers)
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Date: 2003-12-05
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