Hedge Funds' Performance During the Recent Financial Crisis

Over the last decades the importance of Hedge Funds in the global economy is continuously increasing. By following sophisticated investment strategies Hedge Funds support that they can deliver superior returns comparing to other asset classes. However there is a lack of literature regarding their performance during the recent financial crisis. This book is trying to fill in this gap by answering questions like: How Hedge Fund returns were affected by the recent financial crisis? To what extent the correction of their returns affect their attractiveness? What happens to their correlation with other assets when the state of the economy is changing? This research should be extremely useful to professionals in Finance and Investment field as well as to students and researchers who are conducting studies on related topics.

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Ioannis Politidis,B.S on Economics at Piraeus University, MSc in Finance at Tilburg University, working in Trade Processing EQ/FI & Funds department at ING IM, The Hague.