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The Center for International Securities and Derivatives Markets (CISDM) seeks to enhance the understanding of the field of alternative investments through research, education, and networking opportunities for our member donors, industry professionals and academics.

 

Recent Research

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Factor Exposures and Hedge Fund Operational Risk: The Case of Amaranth

Raj Gupta and Hossein Kazemi

August 2007

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Abnormal Return Patterns and Hedge Fund Failures

Journal of Risk Management for Financial Institutions (forthcoming)

Raj Gupta and Hossein Kazemi

July 2007

CTA/Managed Futures Strategy Benchmarks Performance and Review

Thomas Schneeweis and Jason Remillard

March 2007

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Early Reporting Effects on MSCI Hedge Fund Index Returns

Thomas Schneeweis and Jason Remillard

March 2007

52kb

Comparison of RBC 250 Hedge Index using Investible and Non-Investable Hedge Fund Indices

Thomas Schneeweis and Jason Remillard

March 2007

52kb

Investment Internal Impact of Hedge Fund Index Risk Estimation

Thomas Schneeweis

March 2007

52kb

Sources of Return in Managed Futures

Richard Spurgin, Clark University and CISDM

July 2005

52kb

Capital Structure Arbitrage: An Empirical Investigation using Stocks and High Yield Bonds

Manolis Chatiras, Barsendu Mukherjee

February 2004

714kb

The Interdependence of Managed Futures Risk Measures

Bashwar Gupta, Manolis Chatiras

October 2003

558kb

On the Performance of Alternative Investments: CTAs, Hedge Funds, and Funds-of-Funds

Bing Liang

November 2003

303kb

Risk Analysis and Capital Adequacy of Hedge Funds

Anurag Gupta, Bing Liang

October 2003

563kb

Omega as Performance Measurement

Hossein Kazemi, Thomas Schneeweis, Raj Gupta

June 2003

220kb

The Performance of Mutual Funds: Academic Evidence

Hossein Kazemi, Thomas Schneeweis, Dulari Pancholi

May 2003

291kb

Hedging Mutual Fund Returns Using Futures Markets and ETFs

Dulari Pancholi, Thomas Kunkel

May 2003

277kb

Hedge Fund Strategy Performance: Using Conditional Approaches

Bhaswar Gupta, Burak Cerrahoglu and Alper Daglioglu

April 2003

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Conditional Performance of Hedge Funds

Hossein Kazemi, Thomas Schneeweis

March 2003

267kb

Generalized Sharpe Ratio: A Defense Against Sharpened Sharpe Ratios

Hossein Kazemi, Mahnaz Mahdavi, Thomas Schneeweis

June 2003

117kb

Fees on Fees in Funds of Funds

Stephen J. Brown, William N. Goetzmann, Bing Liang

October 2002

845kb

Correlated Default Risk

Sanjiv R. Das, Laurence Freed, Gary Geng, Nikunj Kapadia

August 2002

689kb

Alternative Investments in the Institutional Portfolio

T. Schneeweis, V. Karavas, G. Georgiev

March 2002

237kb

CISDM Hedge Fund/CTA Database

Hedge Fund/CTA Indices

CAIA
The Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst Program

The Journal of Alternative Investments
The Journal of Alternative Investments