Investment performance of hedge funds

• Authors: Waldemar Aspadarec
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Economic function of hedge funds is exactly the same as the one performed by investment funds. In both cases managers are in charge of investors’ money. Investors hope that if they withdraw their money, they will recover their contribution and fair return. The first section of the article presents the essence of hedge funds. The second section discusses measures for assessing the effects of investment policy pursued by hedge funds. The third section analyses the investment performance of hedge funds compared to S&P 500 index. The results of the analysis enabled the author to state that hedge funds achieve considerably higher rates of return regardless of market situation.

Keywords

EN

hedge funds; financial market

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: Folia Oeconomica Stetinensia
• Year: 2014
• Volume: 13
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 174-185

Dates

published

2013-12-01

online

2014-03-25

Contributors

author

Waldemar Aspadarec

• Szczecin University Faculty of Economics and Management Department of Finance Mickiewicza 64, 71-101 Szczecin, Poland

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/foli-2013-0001