IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/oup/rfinst/v29y2016i12p3321-3353..html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Prime Broker-Level Comovement in Hedge Fund Returns: Information or Contagion?

Author

Listed:
  • Ji-Woong Chung
  • Byoung Uk Kang

Abstract

We document strong comovement in the returns of hedge funds sharing the same prime broker. This comovement is driven neither by funds in the same family nor in the same style, and it is distinct from market-wide and local comovement. The common information hypothesis attributes this phenomenon to the prime broker providing valuable information to its hedge fund clients. The prime broker-level contagion hypothesis attributes the comovement to the prime broker spreading funding liquidity shocks across its hedge fund clients. We find strong evidence supporting the common information hypothesis, but limited evidence in favor of the prime broker-level contagion hypothesis.Received September 6, 2014; accepted January 7, 2016 by Editor Philip Strahan.

Suggested Citation

  • Ji-Woong Chung & Byoung Uk Kang, 2016. "Prime Broker-Level Comovement in Hedge Fund Returns: Information or Contagion?," The Review of Financial Studies, Society for Financial Studies, vol. 29(12), pages 3321-3353.
    • Handle: RePEc:oup:rfinst:v:29:y:2016:i:12:p:3321-3353.
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1093/rfs/hhw052
    Download Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers.
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to search for a different version of it.

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Kumar, Nitish & Mullally, Kevin & Ray, Sugata & Tang, Yuehua, 2020. "Prime (information) brokerage," Journal of Financial Economics, Elsevier, vol. 137(2), pages 371-391.
    2. Franzoni, Francesco & Di Maggio, Marco & Egan, Mark, 2019. "The Value of Intermediation in the Stock Market," CEPR Discussion Papers 13936, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers.
    3. Marco Di Maggio & Mark L. Egan & Francesco Franzoni, 2019. "The Value of Intermediation in the Stock Market," NBER Working Papers 26147, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
    4. George O. Aragon & Ji-Woong Chung & Byoung Uk Kang, 2023. "Do Prime Brokers Matter in the Search for Informed Hedge Fund Managers?," Management Science, INFORMS, vol. 69(8), pages 4932-4952, August.
    5. Spilker, Harold D., 2022. "Hedge fund family ties," Journal of Banking & Finance, Elsevier, vol. 134(C).
    6. Andrea Barbon & Marco Di Maggio & Francesco Franzoni & Augustin Landier, 2019. "Brokers and Order Flow Leakage: Evidence from Fire Sales," Journal of Finance, American Finance Association, vol. 74(6), pages 2707-2749, December.
    7. Sinclair, Andrew J., 2023. "Do prime brokers intermediate capital?," Journal of Financial Intermediation, Elsevier, vol. 53(C).
    8. Chung, Sung Gon & Kulchania, Manoj & Teo, Melvyn, 2021. "Hedge funds and their prime broker analysts," Journal of Empirical Finance, Elsevier, vol. 62(C), pages 141-158.
    9. Lu Li & Yang Li & Xueding Wang & Tusheng Xiao, 2020. "Structural holes and hedge fund return comovement: evidence from network‐connected stock hedge funds in China," Accounting and Finance, Accounting and Finance Association of Australia and New Zealand, vol. 60(3), pages 2811-2841, September.
    10. Di Maggio, Marco & Egan, Mark & Franzoni, Francesco, 2022. "The value of intermediation in the stock market," Journal of Financial Economics, Elsevier, vol. 145(2), pages 208-233.
    11. Kruttli, Mathias S. & Monin, Phillip J. & Watugala, Sumudu W., 2022. "The life of the counterparty: Shock propagation in hedge fund-prime broker credit networks," Journal of Financial Economics, Elsevier, vol. 146(3), pages 965-988.
    12. Li, Lu & Li, Yang & Wang, Xueding & He, Yuqian, 2021. "Limited attention, managerial multitasking, and hedge fund performance in China," Pacific-Basin Finance Journal, Elsevier, vol. 67(C).

    More about this item

    JEL classification:

    • G11 - Financial Economics - - General Financial Markets - - - Portfolio Choice; Investment Decisions
    • G14 - Financial Economics - - General Financial Markets - - - Information and Market Efficiency; Event Studies; Insider Trading
    • G23 - Financial Economics - - Financial Institutions and Services - - - Non-bank Financial Institutions; Financial Instruments; Institutional Investors
    • G24 - Financial Economics - - Financial Institutions and Services - - - Investment Banking; Venture Capital; Brokerage

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:oup:rfinst:v:29:y:2016:i:12:p:3321-3353.. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Oxford University Press (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://edirc.repec.org/data/sfsssea.html .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.