A review of hedge funds and their investor activism: do they help or hurt other equity investors?

M Schneider, LV Ryan - Journal of Management & Governance, 2011 - Springer
Hedge funds tend to be highly activist investors who exercise their “principal power” over
their portfolio firms. We observe that, compared to other investor types, hedge funds appear …

Evaluating hedge fund performance

H Fund - 2006 - Wiley Online Library
Alfred Winslow Jones started a hedge fund in 1949, pioneering the con-cept and strategy of
using hedges to protect his portfolios against market declines. Though hugely successful …

Risk Measurement of Investments in the Satellite Ring of a Core-Satellite Portfolio: Traditional versus Alternative Approaches

H Till - The Singapore Economic Review, 2004 - World Scientific
This paper provides a risk framework for fiduciaries by considering using a core-satellite
approach to investing. While the article mainly covers the additional risk measurement …

[BOOK][B] Invertir en hedge funds: análisis de su estructura, estrategias y eficiencia

MML de Prado, CR Illera - 2004 - books.google.com
Page 1 MARCOS MAILOC LÓPEZ DE PRADO n CARLOS RODRIGO ILLERA nx xy
INVERTIR EN HEDGE FUNDS ANÁLISIS DE SU ESTRUCTURA, ESTRATEGIAS Y …

On the Role of Hedge Funds in Institutional Portfolios: Comprehensive Version

H Till - Available at SSRN 2603301, 2003 - papers.ssrn.com
Hedge funds do not easily fit into the current way institutions go about investing. Based on a
survey of recent academic and practitioner research, this article reviews six competing …