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Using Proportional Marginal Variance Decomposition to Understand Hedge Fund Performance Drivers

by Barry Feldman

A comprehensive and accessible introduction to the principles behind PMVD and the application of the technique. To appear in the Risk Books volume Portfolio Analysis: Advanced Topics in Performance Measurement, Risk and Attribution, edited by Timothy P. Ryan, March 2006.

Relative Importance and Value

by Barry Feldman

This working paper provides a comprehensive theoretical foundation for the use of PMVD and related techniques. It also provides a detailed examination of the empirical properties of PMVD components. 

A New Approach to Returns-based Style Analysis

by Barry Feldman

European Investment Review Annual Conference, London, September 9, 2004

The presentation slides are also available.

Risk Measurement of Investments in the Satellite Ring of a Core-Satellite Portfolio: Traditional versus Alternate Approaches
by Hilary Till
Versions of this paper appear in the book Core-Satellite Portfolio Management, J. Clay Singleton (ed.), McGraw Hill (2005) and in the Singapore Economic Review, April 2004.

Profiles of Hedge Fund Indexes Against Conventional Asset Style Indexes

Appears in Insights in Performance Measurement, Risk Analysis and Portfolio Allocation, G. N.Gregoriou, G. Hubner, N. Papageorgiou and F. Rouah (eds.), New York: John Wiley and Sons, Inc, August 2005.

A Dual Model of Cooperative Value

by Barry Feldman

Posted to Social Science Research Network, June 2002

Mutual Fund Style Variance Decomposition

by Barry Feldman

Ibbotson Associates, Unpublished, March 2001

 

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