%0 Journal Article %A Mark D. Flood %A Phillip Monin %T Form PF and the Systemic Risk of Hedge Funds: Risk-Measurement Precision for Option Portfolios %D 2016 %R 10.3905/jai.2016.18.4.125 %J The Journal of Alternative Investments %P 125-147 %V 18 %N 4 %X Form PF is the implementation of Congress’s post-crisis mandate for risk reporting by hedge funds to help protect investors and monitor systemic risk. The authors extend the methodology of Flood, Monin, and Bandyopadhyay to assess the risk measurement tolerances of Form PF for portfolios including options exposures. They generate a range of simulated portfolios of equities and equity options, wherein the weights are calibrated so that portfolios appear identical on Form PF. The authors assess the measurement tolerances of Form PF by examining the min–max range of actual risk exposures as measured directly from portfolio details. They find that the possible range of variation is significant. For portfolios that include options but do not report value-at-risk on Form PF, the range is especially large.TOPICS: Real assets/alternative investments/private equity, financial crises and financial market history, VAR and use of alternative risk measures of trading risk, statistical methods %U https://jai.pm-research.com/content/iijaltinv/18/4/125.full.pdf