Research Initiatives

Hedge Fund Research Initiative

The Yale ICF hedge fund research initiative is a program to actively investigate hedge funds as an asset class and the range of issues related to their management. The current research agenda includes:

Performance: risk, returns, styles, timing metrics and survival.
Management contracts: valuation, incentives.
Strategies: relative-value, momentum, stale-prices.
Role in the capital markets: Asian crisis, price formation, scalability of strategies.

Participating scholars at Yale include:

  • Judith Chevalier
  • William N. Goetzmann
  • Roger G. Ibbotson
  • Jonathan E. Ingersoll, Jr.
  • K. Geert Rouwenhorst
  • Matthew I. Spiegel
  • Ivo Welch

Participating scholars from other institutions include:

  • Stephen A. Ross of MIT
  • Stephen J. Brown of The Stern School, NYU
  • Evan G. Gatev of Boston College
  • Zoran Ivkovitch of the University of Illinois
  • Bing Liang of Case Western Reserve

Participating researchers from practice include:

  • David Swensen, Yale Investments Office
  • Dean Takahashi, Yale Investments Office
  • David DeRosa, Yale ICF
  • Tanya Beder, Caxton
  • James M. Park, Paradigm
  • Harry Mamaysky, Morgan Stanley

Publications and Working Papers on Hedge Funds by ICF Program Participants. (Links to abstracts and download or purchase sites)

Hedge Funds With Style
Stephen J. Brown and William N. Goetzmann

Conditions for Survival: Changing Risk and the Performance of Hedge Fund Managers and CTAs
William N. Goetzmann , Stephen J. Brown and James M. Park

Hedge Funds and the Asian Currency Crisis of 1997
William N. Goetzmann , Stephen J. Brown and James M.Park

High-Water Marks and Hedge Fund Management Contracts
William N. Goetzmann , Jonathan E. Ingersoll Jr. and Stephen A. Ross

Sharpening Sharpe Ratios
William N. Goetzmann , Jonathan E. Ingersoll Jr. , Matthew I. Spiegel and Ivo Welch

Offshore Hedge Funds: Survival & Performance 1989-1995
William N. Goetzmann , Roger G. Ibbotson and Stephen J. Brown

Day Trading International Mutual Funds: Evidence And Policy Solutions
William N. Goetzmann , Zoran Ivkovich and K. Geert Rouwenhorst

Monthly Measurement of Daily Timers
William N. Goetzmann , Jonathan E. Ingersoll Jr. and Zoran Ivkovich

Pairs Trading: Performance of a Relative Value Arbitrage Rule
Evan G. Gatev , William N. Goetzmann and K. Geert Rouwenhorst

Illiquid Alternative Asset Fund Modeling
Alexander, Seth ; Takahashi, Dean , Journal of Portfolio Management, Winter 2002
Volume 28, Number 2, Pages 90 – 100

Improving disclosure
Tanya Styblo Beder, December 2000 issue of Risk magazine

Pioneering Portfolio Management: An Unconventional Approach to Institutional Investment
David F. Swensen

In Defense of Free Capital Markets: The Case against a New International Financial Architecture
David F. DeRosa / Hardcover / Bloomberg Press / January 2001

Options on Foreign Exchange
David F. DeRosa / Hardcover / Wiley, John & Sons, Incorporated / January 2000

Currency Derivatives: Pricing Theory, Exotic Options Hedging Applications
David F. DeRosa (Editor) / Hardcover / Wiley, John & Sons, Incorporated / August 1998


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