The Impact of Minimum Investment Barriers on Hedge Funds: Are Retail Investors Getting the Short End of Performance?
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Authors
Huang, Kelvin
Date
2009-01-05T22:29:59Z
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thesis
Language
eng
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minimum investment , retail investor , probability omega , performance metric , managerial self-selection , funds characteristics
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Using paired tests of high and low minimum investment group funds on several performance measures for hedge funds and funds-of-funds from 1991-2005, we find that funds imposing a higher entry fee requirement on their investors produce significantly better performance both on a raw basis and a risk-adjusted basis. Differences in the performance of the high and low entry fee funds are found to be less significant economically and statistically in later years, suggesting a diminishing gap in performance differences. We also find that there is considerably more cross-sectional dispersion in investing in funds with lower minimum investment levels, which indicates a much higher level of fund selection risk for undiversified investors desiring investment in funds with low entry fee barriers.
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Thesis (Ph.D, Management) -- Queen's University, 2008-12-21 23:57:11.475
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