This book will provide a cutting edge introduction to market risk management for Hedge Funds, Hedge Funds of Funds, and the numerous new indices and clones launching coming to market on a near daily basis.

Contents Acknowledgements 1 Introduction Part I Fundamentals for Style and Implicit Values-at-Risk 2 Ongoing Institutionalization 2.1 Hedge funds industry size and asset flows 2.2 Style distribution 2.3 2006-2007 structural developments 2.4 Are hedge funds becoming decent? 2.5 Funds of hedge funds persistence 3 Heterogeneity of Hedge Funds 3.1 Testing sample 3.2 Smoothing effect of a restrictive classification 3.3 Heterogeneity revealed through Modern Cluster Analysis 3.4 Appendix A: Indices sample 4 Active and Passive Hedge Fund Indices 4.1 Illusions fostered by active hedge fund indices 4.2 Passive indices and the illusion of being clones 4.3 Conclusion 5 The Four Dimensions of Risk Management for Hedge Funds 5.1 Operational and structural risk 5.2 Risk control 5.3 Delegation risk 5.4 Direct investment risk 5.5 Conclusion 5.6 Appendix B: Risks embedded with some classical alternative strategies 5.7 Appendix C: Other common risks to hedge funds Part II Style Value-at-Risk 6 The Original Style VaR Revisited 77 6.1 The Multi-Index Model 6.2 The Style Value-at-Risk 6.3 Backtesting revisited 7 The New Style Model 7.1 Extreme Value Theory 7.2 Risk consolidation 7.3 The New Style Model 7.4 Appendix D: Algorithms for the elemental percentile method 7.5 Appendix E: Copulas 8 Annualization Problem 8.1 Annualization of the main statistical indicators assuming i.i.d. 8.2 Annualization of Value-at-Risk assuming i.i.d. 8.3 Annualization without assuming i.i.d. 8.4 Applications to the Style Value-at-Risk 8.5 Appendix F: annualization of excess kurtosis   8.6 Appendix G: Drost and Nijman Theorem Part III Implicit Value-at-Risk 9 The Best Choice Implicit Value-at-Risk 9.1 Alternative style analysis and BCI Model 9.2 Theoretical framework of BCIM 9.3 Best Choice Implicit VaR 9.4 Empirical Tests 10 BCI Model and Hedge Fund Clones 10.1 Ten-Factor Model 10.2 Non-Linear Model 11 Risk Budgeting 11.1 Value-at-Risk of a multi-managers portfolio 11.2 Risk decomposition: 'before and after' attribution 11.3 Risk decomposition: closed form attribution 12 Value-at-Risk Monitoring 12.1 Analyzing graveyards and hedge funds demise 12.2 The probit model 12.3 Empirical evidence 12.4 Implications for portfolio management 13 Beyond Value-at-Risk 13.1 2007–2008 liquidity crisis and hedge funds 13.2 Mechanical stress test 13.3 Liquidity-adjusted Value-at-Risk 13.4 Limit of liquidity-adjusted Value-at-Risk and liquidity scenario Bibliography Index

Market Risk Management for Hedge Funds provides a clear understanding of the fundamentals of quantitative risk measurement, as well as covering the technical aspects of the Style Value-at-Risk and the Implicit Value-at-Risk measurements applied to hedge funds. The book is divided into three parts. The first part explains the fundamentals of the Style and Implicit Value-at-Risk measurements as seen through the eyes of the alternative industry practitioner. It describes the effects of the ongoing institutionalisation of the hedge fund domain and examines one of the most important features of an absolute return industry. This section also addresses the issues of active and passive hedge fund indices, the failure of both approaches to provide a good representation of hedge funds, and finally provides a qualitative insight of the four dimensions of risk management for the hedge fund investor. Part two is devoted to Style Value-at-Risk measurement, presenting the original model as well as out-of-the-sample back-testing. It also proposes a new parameterisation of the Style Model, addresses the issue of the annualisation of risk measurement for hedge funds, and illustrates a fundamental difference between traditional and alternative investments. Part three presents the Best Choice Implicit Model by addressing the limits of the Style analysis and introducing the Best Choice Implicit Value-at-Risk. It also addresses the issue of hedge fund return cloning within the Best Choice Implicit Model framework, and details the Risk Budgeting approach that can be used with these types of models. Finally, it examines the forecasting power of Value-at-Risk exception monitoring, and provides some adjustments to Value-at-Risk that are particularly relevant during financing crises.