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Funds of Hedge Funds

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  • Gregoriou, Greg N.

    (School of Business and Economics, State University of New York, Plattsburgh, NY, USA)

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With about $450 billion in assets, funds of hedge funds are the most recent darling of investors. While hedge funds carry high risk for the promise of high returns they are designed for the very rich and for large institutional investors such as pension funds. A Fund of Hedge Funds (FOF) spreads investments among a number of hedge funds to reduce risk and provide diversification, while maintaining the potential for higher than average returns. Odds are that some pension fund of yours is invested heavily in these products, and more recently these FOFs have been opened to more and more individual investors in offshore jurisdictions with lower minimum entry levels. Since this is a new and extremely fast-moving financial phenomenon, academic research has just begun in earnest, and this is the first book to present rigorous academic research by some of the leading lights in academic finance, carefully analyzing the broad array of issues involved in FOFs. * With over $450 billion in assets, hedge funds of funds are the darling of investors * First book to present rigorous academic research about funds of funds * Leading lights in academic finance from around the world analyze the broad array of issues involved in funds of funds

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  • Gregoriou, Greg N., 2006. "Funds of Hedge Funds," Elsevier Monographs, Elsevier, edition 1, number 9780750679848.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:monogr:9780750679848
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    1. Wolfgang Bessler & Julian Holler & Philipp Kurmann, 2012. "Hedge funds and optimal asset allocation: Bayesian expectations and spanning tests," Financial Markets and Portfolio Management, Springer;Swiss Society for Financial Market Research, vol. 26(1), pages 109-141, March.
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    4. Briec, Walter & Kerstens, Kristiaan & Van de Woestyne, Ignace, 2013. "Portfolio selection with skewness: A comparison of methods and a generalized one fund result," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 230(2), pages 412-421.
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    10. Fischer, Mario & Hanauer, Matthias X. & Heigermoser, Robert, 2016. "Synthetic hedge funds," Review of Financial Economics, Elsevier, vol. 29(C), pages 12-22.
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    12. Harris, Richard D.F. & Mazibas, Murat, 2013. "Dynamic hedge fund portfolio construction: A semi-parametric approach," Journal of Banking & Finance, Elsevier, vol. 37(1), pages 139-149.
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    14. Heidorn, Thomas & Kaiser, Dieter G. & Roder, Christoph, 2009. "Empirische Analyse der Drawdowns von Dach-Hedgefonds," Frankfurt School - Working Paper Series 109, Frankfurt School of Finance and Management.
    15. Michael Wolf & Dan Wunderli, 2009. "Fund-of-funds construction by statistical multiple testing methods," IEW - Working Papers 445, Institute for Empirical Research in Economics - University of Zurich.
    16. Adam Zaremba, 2015. "Portfolio Diversification with Commodities in Times of Financialization," International Journal of Finance & Banking Studies, Center for the Strategic Studies in Business and Finance, vol. 4(1), pages 18-36, January.
    17. Roncalli, Thierry & Weisang, Guillaume, 2011. "Tracking Problems, Hedge Fund Replication, and Alternative Beta," Journal of Financial Transformation, Capco Institute, vol. 31, pages 19-29.
    18. Adam Zaremba, 2021. "Strategic Asset Allocation in the Times of Financialized Commodity Markets," Journal of International Business Research and Marketing, Inovatus Services Ltd., vol. 6(4), pages 19-28, May.
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    20. Harris, Richard D.F. & Mazibas, Murat, 2010. "Dynamic hedge fund portfolio construction," International Review of Financial Analysis, Elsevier, vol. 19(5), pages 351-357, December.
    21. Nadège Ribau-Peltre & Pascal Damel & An Lethi, 2018. "A methodology to avoid over-diversification of funds of equity funds An implementation case study for equity funds of funds in bull markets," Post-Print hal-03027770, HAL.

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