Hedge Fund Replication
There are currently two main approaches to replicate the return profile of hedge funds based on the idea of Alternative Betas:
- directly extracting the risk premia (bottom up), an approach developed and advocated by Lars Jaeger
- the factor-based approach based on Sharpe's factor models and developed for hedge funds first by professors Bill Fung (London Business School), David Hsieh (Fuqua School of Business, Duke University) et al.
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