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Does Industry Timing Ability of Hedge Funds Predict Their Future Performance, Survival, and Fund Flows?

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  • Bali, Turan G.
  • Brown, Stephen J.
  • Caglayan, Mustafa O.
  • Celiker, Umut

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This paper investigates hedge funds’ ability to time industry-specific returns and shows that funds’ timing ability in the manufacturing industry improves their future performance, probability of survival, and ability to attract more capital. The results indicate that the best industry-timing hedge funds in the manufacturing sector have the highest return exposure to earnings surprises. This, together with persistently sticky earnings surprises, transparent information environment in regards to earnings releases, and large post-earnings-announcement drift in the manufacturing industry, explain to a great extent why best-timing hedge funds can generate significantly larger future returns compared to worst-timing hedge funds.

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  • Bali, Turan G. & Brown, Stephen J. & Caglayan, Mustafa O. & Celiker, Umut, 2021. "Does Industry Timing Ability of Hedge Funds Predict Their Future Performance, Survival, and Fund Flows?," Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Cambridge University Press, vol. 56(6), pages 2136-2169, September.
  • Handle: RePEc:cup:jfinqa:v:56:y:2021:i:6:p:2136-2169_9
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    1. Magni, Carlo Alberto & Marchioni, Andrea & Baschieri, Davide, 2023. "The Attribution Matrix and the joint use of Finite Change Sensitivity Index and Residual Income for value-based performance measurement," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 306(2), pages 872-892.

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