Hedge Funds: Insights in Performance Measurement, Risk Analysis, and Portfolio Allocation

Acknowledgments.

PART ONE: Portfolio Allocation in Hedge Funds.

Chapter 1: Integrating Hedge Funds into the Traditional Portfolio (Harry M. Kat).

Chapter 2: Hedge Funds from the Institutional Investor’s Perspective (Noël Amenc, Felix Goltz, and Lionel Martellini).

Chapter 3: Funds of Hedge Funds versus Portfolios of Hedge Funds: A Comparative Analysis (Daniel Capocci and Valérie Nevolo).

Chapter 4: Analyzing Style Drift in Hedge Funds (Nolke Posthuma and Pieter Jelle Van der Sluis).

Chapter 5: Hedge Fund Allocation under Higher Moments and Illiquidity (Niclas Hagelin, Bengt Pramborg, and Fredrik Stenberg).

Chapter 6: Revisiting the Role of Hedge Funds in Diversified Portfolios (Jean Brunel).

Chapter 7: Hedge Fund Selection: A Synthetic Desirability Index (Jean-Pierre Langevin).

PART TWO: Hedge Fund Management.

Chapter 8: Hedge Fund Index Tracking (Carol Alexander and Anca Dimitriu).

Chapter 9: Designing a Long-Term Wealth Maximization Strategy for Hedge Fund Managers (Keith H. Black).

Chapter 10: Profiles of Hedge Fund Indexes against Conventional Asset Style Indexes (Barry Feldman).

Chapter 11: Applying Securitization Technology to Hedge Funds (Paul U. Ali).

Chapter 12: Maximum Drawdown Distributions with Volatility Persistence (Kathyrn Wilkens, Carlos J. Morales, and Luis Roman).

PART THREE: Risk and Performance Measurement.

Chapter 13: A Literature Review of Hedge Fund Performance Studies (Fabrice Rouah).

Chapter 14: Investing in Hedge Funds through Multimanager Vehicles (Meredith A. Jones).

Chapter 15: Performance in the Hedge Fund Industry: An Analysis of Short- and Long-term Persistence (Sébastien Gyger, P.-A. Bares, and R. Gibson).

Chapter 16: Further Evidence on Hedge Fund Performance: A Calendar-Time Approach (Maher Kooli).

Chapter 17: Investing in Hedge Funds: Risks, Returns, and Performance Measurement (Francis C. C. Koh, Winston T. H. Koh, David K. C. Lee, Kok Fai Phoon).

Chapter 18: Efficiency of Funds of Hedge Funds: A Data Envelopment Analysis Approach (Greg N. Gregoriou and Kevin McCarthy).

Chapter 19: The Performance of Hedge Funds in the Presence of Errors in Variables (Alain Coën, Aurélie Desfleurs, Georges Hübner, and François-Éric Racicot).

Chapter 20: Alternative RAPMs for Alternative Investments (Milind Sharma).

PART FOUR: Statistical Properties of Hedge Funds.

Chapter 21: Volatility Regimes and Hedge Fund Management (Mark Anson, Ho Ho, and Kurt W. Silberstein).

Chapter 22: Does Extreme Risk Affect the Fund of Hedge Funds Composition? (Laurent Favre).

Chapter 23: A Hedge Fund Investor’s Guide to Understanding Managed Futures (Hilary F. Till and Joseph Eagleeye).

Chapter 24: Fat-Tail Risk in Portfolios of Hedge Funds and Traditional Investments (Jean-François Bacmann and Gregor Gawron).

Chapter 25: Skewing Your Diversification (Mark S. Shore).

Chapter 26: Investable Equity Long/Short Hedge Funds: Properties and Behavior (Edward Leung and Jacqueline Meziani).

Chapter 27: Hedge Funds and Portfolio Optimization: A Game of Its Own? (Zsolt Berenyi).

PART FIVE: Special Classes of Hedge Funds.

Chapter 28: Structured Products on Fund of Fund Underlyings (Jens Johansen).

Chapter 29: Hedge Funds and the Stale Pricing Issue (Mohamed Gaber, Greg N. Gregoriou, and William Kelting).

References.

Index.