Higher-Moment Risk Exposures in Hedge Funds

44 Pages Posted: 24 Apr 2012

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Marie Lambert

University of Liège - HEC Liège

Georges Hübner

HEC Liège

Nicolas A. Papageorgiou

HEC Montreal - Department of Finance

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Date Written: April 24, 2012

Abstract

The paper singles out the key roles of US equity skewness and kurtosis in the determination of the market premia embedded in Hedge Fund returns. We propose a conditional higher-moment asset pricing model with location, trading and higher-moment factors in order to describe the dynamics of the Equity Hedge (Market Neutral, Short Selling and Long/Short strategies), Event Driven, Relative Value, and Funds of Hedge Funds styles. The volatility, skewness and kurtosis implied in the US options markets are used by Hedge Fund managers as instruments to anticipate market movements. Managers should adjust their market exposure in response to variations in the implied higher moments. We show that higher-moment premia improve a conditional asset pricing model both in terms of explanatory power (R-squares and Schwarz criterion) and specification errors across all Hedge Fund styles.

Keywords: Hedge Funds, Implied higher-moments, Conditioning factors

JEL Classification: G10, G12

Suggested Citation

Lambert, Marie and Hübner, Georges and Papageorgiou, Nicolas A., Higher-Moment Risk Exposures in Hedge Funds (April 24, 2012). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2045781 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2045781

Marie Lambert (Contact Author)

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Georges Hübner

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Nicolas A. Papageorgiou

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