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Do hedge funds manage their reported returns?

Subject

Finance

Publishing details

BNP Paribas Hedge Fund Centre Working Paper Series

Authors / Editors

Agarwal V;Daniel N;and Naik N

Biographies

Narayan Naik

Publication Year

2008

Abstract

We find that hedge fund returns during December are significantly higher than those during the rest of the year even after controlling for funds’ risk exposures and factor risk premiums in December. More importantly, we find that this December spike is higher for funds with greater incentives and greater opportunities to inflate returns. These results suggest that hedge funds manage their returns upwards in an opportunistic fashion in order to earn higher fees. Finally, we provide evidence that funds inflate December returns by under-reporting returns earlier in the year and/or by borrowing from January returns in the following year.

Publication Research Centre

Hedge Fund Centre

Series Number

HF - 028

Series

BNP Paribas Hedge Fund Centre Working Paper Series

Available on ECCH

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