Information
The following articles provide background information on the hedge fund industry.
Dr Vikas Agarwal and Prof. Narayan Naik
An overview of the history, classification and evaluation of hedge funds
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Hedge Fund Indices
Prof Narayan Naik
Hedge Fund Industry: Facts and Figures
Prof Narayan Naik
Hedge Fund Database Research Toolkit
Dr Drago Indjic
Links
The following sites contain useful information relating to the hedge fund industry. Please note that The BNP Paribas Hedge Fund Centre only endorses the working papers and reports published on its own web site. It has no opinion about the contents or conclusions of the reports that are posted on the other web sites listed here.
Alternative Investment Management Association (AIMA)
AIMA is a not-for-profit professional trade association for the alternative investment industry specifically, hedge funds, managed futures funds and managed currency funds.
Hedgeworld.com
An online community for hedge funds and alternative investing, offering access to Tass Plus, as well as free community, commerce and content services to the hedge fund and alternative investment industry.
Social Science Research Network (SSRN)
SSRN is devoted to the rapid worldwide dissemination of social science research and is composed of a number of specialised research networks in each of the social sciences. The SSRN eLibrary consists of an Abstract Database containing abstracts on over 37,500 scholarly working papers and forthcoming papers and an Electronic Paper Collection currently containing over 19,700 downloadable full text documents.
Click on the link above to download answers to the Centre's most frequently asked questions.
