Tactical allocation in commodity futures markets: Combining momentum and term structure signals

AM Fuertes, J Miffre, G Rallis - Journal of Banking & Finance, 2010 - Elsevier
This paper examines the combined role of momentum and term structure signals for the
design of profitable trading strategies in commodity futures markets. With significant …

[HTML][HTML] Comoment risk and stock returns

M Lambert, G Hübner - Journal of Empirical Finance, 2013 - Elsevier
We estimate investable comoment equity risk premiums for the US markets. The stock's
contribution to the asymmetry and the fat tails of the market portfolio's payoff are priced into a …

[HTML][HTML] The conditional Fama-French model and endogenous illiquidity: A robust instrumental variables test

FÉ Racicot, WF Rentz, D Tessier, R Theoret - PloS one, 2019 - journals.plos.org
We investigate conditional specifications of the five-factor Fama-French (FF) model,
augmented with traditional illiquidity measures. The motivation for this time-varying …

Liquidity shocks, size and the relative performance of hedge fund strategies

B Ding, HA Shawky, J Tian - Journal of Banking & Finance, 2009 - Elsevier
We examine whether the increase in the flow of capital to hedge funds over the period 1994–
2005 had a negative impact on performance. More specifically, we study the relative …

Hedge fund governance

HB Shadab - Stan. JL Bus. & Fin., 2013 - HeinOnline
Concerns about the internal governance of hedge funds have dramatically increased in
recent years.'During the financial crisis of 2008, investors became frustrated when numerous …

Is illiquidity priced in an international factor pricing model? A dynamic panel data application with robust IV

FE Racicot, WF Rentz, R Théoret - International Journal of …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
In the setting of a dynamic panel data framework, we investigate the international five‐factor
Fama–French (2017) model augmented with traditional illiquidity factors (Amihud, Journal of …

Momentum profits, nonnormality risks and the business cycle

AM Fuertes, J Miffre, WH Tan - Applied Financial Economics, 2009 - Taylor & Francis
This article examines the role of nonnormality risks in explaining the momentum puzzle of
equity returns. It shows that momentum profits are not normally distributed and, relatedly …

Feasible momentum strategies in the US stock market

M Ammann, M Moellenbeck, MM Schmid - Journal of Asset Management, 2011 - Springer
Although there is a large literature documenting the profitability of momentum strategies,
their implementation is afflicted with many difficulties. Most importantly, high turnover and …

[PDF][PDF] Time-varying analysis in risk and hedge fund performance: How forecast ability increases estimated alpha

G Criton, O Scaillet - SSRN working paper, March, 2011 - next-finance.net
This paper examines the dynamic of Hedge Funds. Structural change tests indicate a
timevarying structure. A linear factor model with time-varying coefficients shows that the …

Non-normality facts and fallacies

D Esch - Journal of Investment Management (JOIM), First …, 2010 - papers.ssrn.com
Recently there has been an increasing trend in the quantitative finance community to call for
statistical models which are explicitly model returns with non-normal probability distributions …