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TY - JOUR
T1 - Recovering Delisting Returns of Hedge Funds
AU - Jackwerth, Jens Carsten
AU - Hodder , James E.
AU - Kolokolova, Olga
PY - 2014/6/30
Y1 - 2014/6/30
N2 - Numerous hedge funds stop reporting each year to commercial databases, wreaking havoc with analyzing investment strategies that incur the unobserved delisting return. We use estimated portfolio holdings for funds-of-funds to back out estimated hedge-fund delisting returns. For all exiting funds, the estimated mean delisting return is insignificantly different from the average monthly return for live hedge funds. However, funds with poor prior performance and no clearly stated delisting reason had a significantly negative estimated mean delisting return of -5.97%, suggesting that a shock to their returns “tips them over the edge” and leads to delisting.
AB - Numerous hedge funds stop reporting each year to commercial databases, wreaking havoc with analyzing investment strategies that incur the unobserved delisting return. We use estimated portfolio holdings for funds-of-funds to back out estimated hedge-fund delisting returns. For all exiting funds, the estimated mean delisting return is insignificantly different from the average monthly return for live hedge funds. However, funds with poor prior performance and no clearly stated delisting reason had a significantly negative estimated mean delisting return of -5.97%, suggesting that a shock to their returns “tips them over the edge” and leads to delisting.
U2 - 10.1017/S0022109014000465
DO - 10.1017/S0022109014000465
M3 - Journal article
VL - 49
SP - 797
EP - 815
JO - Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis
JF - Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis
SN - 0022-1090
IS - 3
ER -