INDICE: Preface. I. Breaking The Black Box. New Popularity, Old Confusion. The challenges of understanding hedge funds. Leaving Alphaville. The Beauty ofBeta. Alternative vs. Traditional Beta. The Replication Revolution. Full Disclosure. II. What are hedge funds, where did they come from, and where are theygoing?. Characteristics of hedge funds. Hedge Funds as an asset class. Taxonomy of hedge funds. Myths, Misperceptions and Realities about hedge funds. A short history of hedge funds. The hedge fund industry today. The Future of HedgeFunds - Opportunities and Challenges. III. The individual hedge fund strategies characteristics. Equity Hedged - Long/Short Equity. Equity Hedged - Equity Market Neutral. Equity Hedged - Short Selling. Relative Value - General. Relative Value - Fixed Income Arbitrage. Relative Value - Convertible Arbitrage. Relative Value - Volatility Arbitrage. Relative Value - Capital Structure Arbitrage. Event Driven - General. Event Driven - Merger Arbitrage. Event Driven - Distressed Securities. Event Driven - Regulation D. Opportunistic - Global Macro. Managed Futures. Managed Futures - Systematic. Managed Futures - Discretionary. Conclusion of the chapter. IV. Empirical Return and Risk Properties of Hedge Funds. When the Sharpe ratio is not sharp enough. Challenges of Hedge FundPerformance Measurement - the issue with hedge fund indices. Sources of empirical data. Risk and Return properties of hedge fund strategies. Comparison with Equities and Bonds. Deviation from normal distribution. Unconditional Correlation Properties. Conditional Returns and Correlations. Hedge Fund Behaviour in Extreme Market Situations. Benefits of Hedge Funds in a Traditional Portfolio. Quantitative portfolio optimisation for hedge funds revisited. Summary of empirical properties. Appendix I: Data providers for past hedge fund performance. V. The drivers of hedge fund returns. Alpha versus Beta. The enigma of hedge fund returns. Hedge fund returns: How much is Alpha?. The efficient market hypothesis. Questioning the efficient market hypothesis: Behavioural Finance. The theoretical framework of modern finance: Asset pricing models and the interpretations of alpha. Systematic Risk Premia: The prevalence of beta in the global capital markets. Risk premia and economic functions. Market inefficiencies: The ‘search of alpha’. An illustration on the nature of hedge fund returns. The decrease of alpha. The Beauty of Alternative Beta. The future of hedge fund capacity. Momentum and Value. Active strategies and option-like returns. WhyManager Skill Matters. Buyer Beware: Some final words of caution about hedge fund returns. VI. A first approach to hedge fund replication - Linear Factor Models and time series replication models. Revisiting Sharpes Approach. Understanding Linear Factor Analysis: Criteria for the factor model approach. The Model Specification Problem. The Data Quality Problem. The development of hedge fund factor models. Basic and Advanced Factor Models for Hedge Fund Strategies.How good are our models?. Variability of risk exposures and persistence of factor loadings. Can we create hedge fund replications with linear factor models?. The limitations of linear factor models. Currently available hedge fund replication products based on RFS. Summary and conclusion of the chapter. VII. The distributional approach. Being less ambitious. General Principals of the distributional approach. Integration of correlations and dependencies. Limitations of the replication approach. The empirical results of the distributional method. Conclusion for the distributional approach. VIII. Bottom up: Extraction of alternative beta and ‘alternative beta strategies’. Being less ambitious. The rule-based alternative. What hedge fund investors really want. The first ‘alternative beta’ strategies. Relating hedge fund returns and risk premia: What we can model. Alternative beta strategies for individual hedge fund styles andstrategy sectors. New exotic beta. The question of asset allocation. The limitations of hedge fund replication. A note on the issue of liquidity. Summary. IX. Hedge fund portfolio management with alternative beta strategies. The tasks of the hedge fund portfolio manager. The lure of saving fees. The limitations of hedge fund replication: Alpha remains attractive. Replicating Factor Strategies and Alternative Beta Strategies: The question of asset allocation. Separations of tasks for the fund of funds managers. The idea of a core-satellite approach to hedge fund investing. Isolating pure alpha. The first part in the investment process: Allocation to strategy sectors. Implementation of tacticalasset allocation in a core-satellite approach to hedge fund portfolios. The second element: Manager Selection. Active post-investment risk management. Summary and Conclusion. X. Replication and the Future of Hedge Funds. Beyond Alpha. What do investors say so far?. Replication and the four key challenges to the hedge fund industry. Replication in Reality. Replication and Hedge Fund Growth. Bibliography.
- ISBN: 978-0-470-75446-7
- Editorial: John Wiley & Sons
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 272
- Fecha Publicación: 26/09/2008
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés