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Gamma Trading Skills in Hedge Funds
Fays, Boris; Hübner, Georges; Lambert, Marie
2018
 

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Abstract :
[en] This paper explores the gamma trading, timing and managerial skills of individual hedge funds across categories. We replicate the non-linear payoffs of hedge funds with traded options, with the option features being endogenously defined in our replication model. On top of providing a flexible tool to create individual benchmarks for the payoff curvature of hedge fund, the model helps assigning hedge fund styles into three categories: directional with market timing skills, non-directional and market timers. Overall, our empirical results show that, on 30% of replicated funds in our sample (10,958 funds), there is no evidence of the presence of selection skills once a fund performance is adjusted with respect to the option-based benchmark and the traditional option-based factors of Agarwal and Naik (2004). This research has an incremental potential to stimulate additional research in the field of hedge funds performance replication through passive strategies.
Disciplines :
Finance
Author, co-author :
Fays, Boris ;  Université de Liège - ULiège > HEC Liège : UER > Analyse financière et finance d'entreprise
Hübner, Georges  ;  Université de Liège - ULiège > HEC Liège : UER > Gestion financière
Lambert, Marie ;  Université de Liège - ULiège > HEC Liège : UER > Analyse financière et finance d'entreprise
Language :
English
Title :
Gamma Trading Skills in Hedge Funds
Publication date :
2018
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