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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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Jing-zhi Huang, John Liechty, Marco Rossi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: KeAi Communications Co., Ltd. 2018-12-01
Series:Journal of Finance and Data Science
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2405918818300473