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Hedge Fund Dynamic Market Sensitivity

Jiaqi Chen and Michael L. Tindall
The Journal of Alternative Investments Summer 2013, 16 (1) 118-129; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3905/jai.2013.16.1.118
Jiaqi Chen
is a financial industry analyst in the Financial Industry Studies Department of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas in Dallas, TX.
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Michael L. Tindall
is an alternative investments specialist in the Financial Industry Studies Department of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas in Dallas, TX.
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Abstract

Many hedge funds attempt to achieve high returns by employing leverage. However, it is difficult to track the degree of leverage used by hedge funds over time because detailed timely information about their positions in asset markets is generally unavailable. This article discusses how to combine shrinkage variable selection methods with dynamic regression to compute and track hedge fund leverage on a time-varying basis. The authors argue that their methodology measures leverage as well as hedge fund sensitivity to markets arising from other sources. The authors’ approach employs the lasso variable selection method to select the independent variables in equations of hedge fund excess returns. With the independent variables selected by the lasso method, a state space model generates the parameter estimates dynamically. The hedge fund market sensitivity indicator is the average of the absolute values of the parameters in the excess return equations. The indicator peaks at the time of the Long Term Capital Management meltdown in 1998 and again at a critical time in the 2008 financial crisis. In the absence of direct information from hedge fund balance sheets, this approach could serve as an important tool for monitoring market sensitivity and financial distress in the hedge fund industry.

TOPICS: Real assets/alternative investments/private equity, statistical methods, financial crises and financial market history

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