Return smoothing and its implications for performance analysis of hedge funds
Return smoothing and performance persistence are both sources of autocorrelation in hedge fund returns. The practice of pre-processing the data in order to remove smoothing before conducting performance analysis also affects the predictability of hedge fund returns. This paper develops a Bayesian fr...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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KeAi Communications Co., Ltd.
2018-12-01
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Series: | Journal of Finance and Data Science |
Online Access: | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2405918818300473 |