Investing in Hedge Funds: A Guide to Measuring Risk and Return Characteristics

This book will present a comprehensive view of the risk characteristics, risk-adjusted performances, and risk exposures of various hedge fund indices. It will distinguish itself from other books and journal articles by focusing solely on hedge fund indices and emphasizing tail risk as a predictor of hedge fund index returns. The three chapters in this short book have not been previously published.

Uses most recently developed investable hedge fund indexes to revise previous analyses of indexes

Focuses on 14 distinct types of hedge fund indices with daily data from January 1994 to December 2011

1. Introduction 2. Hedge fund strategies 3. Hedge Fund Databases, Biases and Indices 4. Risk-Adjusted Performances of Hedge Fund Indices 5. Determinants of Hedge Fund Index Returns