Return Smoothing, Liquidity Costs, and Investor Flows: Evidence from a Separate Account Platform

We use a new hedge fund data set from a separate account platform to examine (1) how much of hedge fund return smoothing is due to main fund-specific factors, such as managerial reporting discretion and (2) the costs of removing hedge fund share restrictions. These accounts trade pari passu with mat...

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Main Authors: Cao, Charles (Author), Farnsworth, Grant (Author), Liang, Bing (Author), Lo, Andrew W (Author)
Other Authors: Sloan School of Management (Contributor)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS), 2020-11-13T18:35:41Z.
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