Alternative Beta Strategies and Hedge Fund Replication

Lars Jaeger 지음

Wiley 2008년 10월 13일 출간

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There s a buzzword that has quickly captured the imagination of product providers and investors alike: quot;hedge fund replicationquot;. In the broadest sense, replicating hedge fund strategies means replicating their return sources and corresponding risk exposures. However, there still lacks a coherent picture on what hedge fund replication means in practice, what its premises are, how to distinguish di erent approaches, and where this can lead us to.Serving as a handbook for replicating the returns of hedge funds at considerably lower cost, Alternative Beta Strategies and Hedge Fund Replication provides a unique focus on replication, explaining along the way the return sources of hedge funds, and their systematic risks, that make replication possible. It explains the background to the new discussion on hedge fund replication and how to derive the returns of many hedge fund strategies at much lower cost, it differentiates the various underlying approaches and explains how hedge fund replication can improve your own investment process into hedge funds.Written by the well known Hedge Fund expert and author Lars Jaeger, the book is divided into three sections: Hedge Fund Background, Return Sources, and Replication Techniques. Section one provides a short course in what hedge funds actually are and how they operate, arming the reader with the background knowledge required for the rest of the book. Section two illuminates the sources from which hedge funds derive their returns and shows that the majority of hedge fund returns derive from systematic risk exposure rather than manager quot;Alphaquot;. Section three presents various approaches to replicating hedge fund returns by presenting the first and second generation of hedge fund replication products, points out the pitfalls and strengths of the various approaches and illustrates the mathematical concepts that underlie them.With hedge fund replication going mainstream, this book provides clear guidance on the topic to

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Preface.1. Breaking the Black Box.1.1 New Popularity, old confusion.1.2 The challenges of understanding hedge funds.1.3 Leaving Alphaville.1.4 The beauty of beta.1.5 Alternative versus traditional beta.1.6 The replication revolution.1.7 Full disclosure.2. What Are Hedge Funds, Where Did They Come From, and Where Are They Going?2.1 Characteristics of hedge funds.2.2 Hedge funds as an asset class.2.3 Taxonomy of hedge funds.2.4 Myths, misperceptions, and realities about hedge funds.2.5 A short history of hedge funds.2.6 The hedge fund industry today.2.7 The future of hedge funds - opportunities and challenges.3. The Individual Hedge Fund Strategiesa?? Characteristics.3.1 Equity Hedged - Long/Short Equity.3.2 Equity Hedged - Equity Market Neutral.3.3 Equity Hedged - Short Selling.3.4 Relative Value - general.3.5 Relative Value - Fixed Income Arbitrage.3.6 Relative Value - Convertible Arbitrage.3.7 Relative Value - Volatility Arbitrage.3.8 Relative Value - Capital Structure Arbitrage.3.9 Event Driven - general.3.10 Event Driven - Merger Arbitrage.3.11 Event Driven - Distressed Securities.3.12 Event Driven - Regulation D.3.13 Opportunistic - Global Macro.3.14 Managed Futures.3.15 Managed Futures - Systematic.3.16 Managed Futures - Discretionary.3.17 Conclusion of the chapter.4. Empirical Return and Risk Properties of Hedge Funds.4.1 When the Sharpe ratio is not sharp enough.4.2 Challenges of hedge fund performance measurement - the issue with hedge fund indices.4.3 Sources of empirical data.4.4 Risk and Return properties of hedge fund strategies.4.5 Comparison with equities and bonds.4.6 Deviation from normal distribution.4.7 Unconditional correlation properties.4.8 Conditional returns and correlations.4.9 Hedge fund behavior in extreme market situations.4.10 Benefits of hedge funds in a traditional portfolio.<

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저자(글) Lars Jaeger

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Lars Jaeger holds a PhD degree in theoretical physics from the Max-Planck Institute for Physics of Complex Systems, Dresden. He studied physics and philosophy at the University of Bonn, Germany, and ??cole Polytechnique, Paris. After his post-doctorate studies in Dresden, Lars began his finance career as a quantitative researcher on econometric and mathematical modeling of financial markets at Olsen Associates AG in Zurich. He subsequently joined the Hedge Fund group of Credit Suisse Asset management, where he was responsible for risk management and quantitative strategy analysis. Lars is a founding partner of saisGroup, an investment firm specializing on alternative investment strategies which in 2001 merged with Partners Group, where he is now a partner heading the group a??Alternative Beta Strategesa??. Lars holds the CFA charter and is a certified Financial Risk Manager (FRM). He is the author of numerous research publications and the books Risk Management of Alternative Investment Strategies, published in 2002 with Financial Times Prentice Hall, The New Generation of Risk Management for Hedge Funds and Private Equity (ed.) published by Euromoney in 2003, and Through the Alpha Smokescreen: A guide to hedge fund return sources, published by Institutional Investors (2005). Lars lives with his wife and three children near Zurich, Switzerland.