Market Risk Management for Hedge Funds: Foundations of the Style and Implicit Value-at-Risk

Market Risk Management for Hedge Funds: Foundations of the Style and Implicit Value-at-Risk

by François Duc, Yann Schorderet
Released December 2008
Publisher(s): Wiley
ISBN: 9780470722992

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Book description

This book provides a cutting edge introduction to market risk management for Hedge Funds, Hedge Funds of Funds, and the numerous new indices and clones launching coming to market on a near daily basis. It will present the fundamentals of quantitative risk measures by analysing the range of Value-at-Risk (VaR) models used today, addressing the robustness of each model, and looking at new risk measures available to more effectively manage risk in a hedge fund portfolio.

The book begins by analysing the current state of the hedge fund industry - at the ongoing institutionalisation of the market, and at its latest developments. It then moves on to examine the range of risks, risk controls, and risk management strategies currently employed by practitioners, and focuses on particular risks embedded in the more classic investment strategies such as Long/Short, Convertible Arbitrage, Fixed Income Arbitrage, Short selling and risk arbitrage. Addressed along side these are other risks common to hedge funds, including liquidity risk, leverage risk and counterparty risk.

The book then moves on to examine more closely two models which provide the underpinning for market risk management in investment today - Style Value-at-Risk and Implicit Value-at-Risk. As well as full quantitative analysis and backtesting of each methodology, the authors go on to propose a new style model for style and implicit Var, complete with analysis, real life examples and backtesting. The authors then go on to discuss annualisation issues and risk return before moving on to propose a new model based on the authors own Best Choice Implicit VaR approach, incorporating quantitative analysis, market results and backtesting and also its potential for new hedge fund clone products.

This book is the only guide to VaR for Hedge Funds and will prove to be an invaluable resource as we embark into an era of increasing volatility and uncertainty.

Table of contents

  1. Market Risk Management for Hedge Funds: Foundations of the Style and Implicit Value-at-Risk
    1. Copyright
    2. Dedication
    3. Contents (1/2)
    4. Contents (2/2)
    5. Acknowledgements
    6. Chapter 1: Introduction (1/2)
    7. Chapter 1: Introduction (2/2)
    8. Part I: Fundamentals for Style and Implicit Value-at-Risk
      1. Chapter 2: Ongoing Institutionalization (1/5)
      2. Chapter 2: Ongoing Institutionalization (2/5)
      3. Chapter 2: Ongoing Institutionalization (3/5)
      4. Chapter 2: Ongoing Institutionalization (4/5)
      5. Chapter 2: Ongoing Institutionalization (5/5)
        1. 2.1 HEDGE FUND INDUSTRY SIZE AND ASSET FLOWS
        2. 2.2 STYLE DISTRIBUTION
        3. 2.3 2006–2007 STRUCTURAL DEVELOPMENTS
        4. 2.4 ARE HEDGE FUNDS BECOMING DECENT?
        5. 2.5 FUNDS OF HEDGE FUNDS PERSISTENCE
      6. Chapter 3: Heterogeneity of Hedge Funds (1/3)
      7. Chapter 3: Heterogeneity of Hedge Funds (2/3)
      8. Chapter 3: Heterogeneity of Hedge Funds (3/3)
        1. 3.1 TESTING SAMPLE
        2. 3.2 SMOOTHING EFFECT OF A RESTRICTIVE CLASSIFICATION
        3. 3.3 HETEROGENEITY REVEALED THROUGH MODERN CLUSTER ANALYSIS
        4. 3.4 APPENDIX A: INDICES SAMPLE
      9. Chapter 4: Active and Passive Hedge Fund Indices (1/5)
      10. Chapter 4: Active and Passive Hedge Fund Indices (2/5)
      11. Chapter 4: Active and Passive Hedge Fund Indices (3/5)
      12. Chapter 4: Active and Passive Hedge Fund Indices (4/5)
      13. Chapter 4: Active and Passive Hedge Fund Indices (5/5)
        1. 4.1 ILLUSIONS FOSTERED BY ACTIVE HEDGE FUND INDICES
        2. 4.2 PASSIVE INDICES AND THE ILLUSION OF BEING CLONES
        3. 4.3 CONCLUSION
      14. Chapter 5: The Four Dimensions of Risk Management for Hedge Funds (1/6)
      15. Chapter 5: The Four Dimensions of Risk Management for Hedge Funds (2/6)
      16. Chapter 5: The Four Dimensions of Risk Management for Hedge Funds (3/6)
      17. Chapter 5: The Four Dimensions of Risk Management for Hedge Funds (4/6)
      18. Chapter 5: The Four Dimensions of Risk Management for Hedge Funds (5/6)
      19. Chapter 5: The Four Dimensions of Risk Management for Hedge Funds (6/6)
        1. 5.1 OPERATIONAL AND STRUCTURAL RISK
        2. 5.2 RISK CONTROL
        3. 5.3 DELEGATION RISK
        4. 5.4 DIRECT INVESTMENT RISK
        5. 5.5 CONCLUSION
        6. 5.6 APPENDIX B: RISKS EMBEDDEDWITH SOME CLASSICAL ALTERNATIVE STRATEGIES
        7. 5.7 APPENDIX C: OTHER COMMON HEDGE FUNDS RISKS
    9. Part II: Style Value-at-Risk
      1. Chapter 6: The Original Style VaR Revisited (1/4)
      2. Chapter 6: The Original Style VaR Revisited (2/4)
      3. Chapter 6: The Original Style VaR Revisited (3/4)
      4. Chapter 6: The Original Style VaR Revisited (4/4)
        1. 6.1 THE MULTI-INDEX MODEL
        2. 6.2 THE STYLE VALUE-AT-RISK
        3. 6.3 BACKTESTING REVISITED
      5. Chapter 7: The New Style Model (1/8)
      6. Chapter 7: The New Style Model (2/8)
      7. Chapter 7: The New Style Model (3/8)
      8. Chapter 7: The New Style Model (4/8)
      9. Chapter 7: The New Style Model (5/8)
      10. Chapter 7: The New Style Model (6/8)
      11. Chapter 7: The New Style Model (7/8)
      12. Chapter 7: The New Style Model (8/8)
        1. 7.1 EXTREME VALUE THEORY
        2. 7.2 RISK CONSOLIDATION
        3. 7.3 THE NEW STYLE MODEL
        4. 7.4 APPENDIX D: ALGORITHMS FOR THE ELEMENTAL PERCENTILE METHOD
        5. 7.5 APPENDIX E: COPULAS
      13. Chapter 8: Annualization Problem (1/5)
      14. Chapter 8: Annualization Problem (2/5)
      15. Chapter 8: Annualization Problem (3/5)
      16. Chapter 8: Annualization Problem (4/5)
      17. Chapter 8: Annualization Problem (5/5)
        1. 8.1 ANNUALIZATION OF THE MAIN STATISTICAL INDICATORS ASSUMING I.I.D.
        2. 8.2 ANNUALIZATION OF VALUE-AT-RISK ASSUMING I.I.D.
        3. 8.3 ANNUALIZATION WITHOUT ASSUMING I.I.D.
        4. 8.4 APPLICATIONS TO THE STYLE VALUE-AT-RISK
        5. 8.5 APPENDIX F: ANNUALIZATION OF EXCESS KURTOSIS
        6. 8.6 APPENDIX G: DROST AND NIJMAN THEOREM
    10. Part III: Implicit Value-at-Risk
      1. Chapter 9: The Best Choice Implicit Value-at-Risk (1/4)
      2. Chapter 9: The Best Choice Implicit Value-at-Risk (2/4)
      3. Chapter 9: The Best Choice Implicit Value-at-Risk (3/4)
      4. Chapter 9: The Best Choice Implicit Value-at-Risk (4/4)
        1. 9.1 ALTERNATIVE STYLE ANALYSIS AND BCI MODEL
        2. 9.2 THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK OF BCIM
        3. 9.3 BEST CHOICE IMPLICIT VaR
        4. 9.4 EMPIRICAL TESTS
      5. Chapter 10: BCI Model and Hedge Fund Clones (1/2)
      6. Chapter 10: BCI Model and Hedge Fund Clones (2/2)
        1. 10.1 THE TEN-FACTOR MODEL
        2. 10.2 THE NON-LINEAR MODEL
      7. Chapter 11: Risk Budgeting (1/2)
      8. Chapter 11: Risk Budgeting (2/2)
        1. 11.1 VALUE-AT-RISK OF A MULTI-MANAGERS PORTFOLIO
        2. 11.2 RISK DECOMPOSITION: 'BEFORE AND AFTER' ATTRIBUTION
        3. 11.3 RISK DECOMPOSITION: CLOSED FORM ATTRIBUTION
      9. Chapter 12: Value-at-Risk Monitoring (1/2)
      10. Chapter 12: Value-at-Risk Monitoring (2/2)
        1. 12.1 ANALYSING GRAVEYARDS AND HEDGE FUNDS DEMISE
        2. 12.2 THE PROBIT MODEL
        3. 12.3 EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE
        4. 12.4 IMPLICATIONS FOR PORTFOLIO MANAGEMENT
      11. Chapter 13: Beyond Value-at-Risk (1/2)
      12. Chapter 13: Beyond Value-at-Risk (2/2)
        1. 13.1 2007–2008 LIQUIDITY CRISIS AND HEDGE FUNDS
        2. 13.2 MECHANICAL STRESS TEST
        3. 13.3 LIQUIDITY-ADJUSTED VALUE-AT-RISK
        4. 13.4 LIMIT OF LIQUIDITY-ADJUSTED VALUE-AT-RISK AND LIQUIDITY SCENARIO
    11. Bibliography (1/2)
    12. Bibliography (2/2)
    13. Index (1/3)
    14. Index (2/3)
    15. Index (3/3)

Product information

  • Title: Market Risk Management for Hedge Funds: Foundations of the Style and Implicit Value-at-Risk
  • Author(s): François Duc, Yann Schorderet
  • Release date: December 2008
  • Publisher(s): Wiley
  • ISBN: 9780470722992