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38 PagesPosted: 30 Apr 2001
See all articles by Francois Lhabitant
Francois Lhabitant
Kedge Capital Fund Management; Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Date Written: March 2001
Abstract
We suggest an empirical model to analyze the investment style of individual hedge funds and funds of funds. Our approach is based on a mixture of the style analysis approach suggested by Sharpe (1988), the factor push approach used in stress testing, and historical simulation. An interesting and straightforward extension of this model is the estimation of value-at-risk (VaR) figures. This extension is tested using a very intuitive implementation over a large sample of 2,934 hedge funds over the 1994-2000 period. Both the in-the-sample and the out-of-sample results suggest that the proposed approach is useful and may constitute a valuable tool for assessing the investment style and risk of hedge funds.
Keywords: Hedge funds, value at risk, style analysis
JEL Classification: G10
Suggested Citation:Suggested Citation
Lhabitant, Francois-Serge, Assessing Market Risk for Hedge Funds and Hedge Funds Portfolios (March 2001). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=268527 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.268527
Francois-Serge Lhabitant (Contact Author)
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HOME PAGE: http://www.lhabitant.net
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology ( email )
Hong Kong
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