Shareholder activism has exploded in popularity since the turn of the century, due in large part to impressive relative returns generated by its major participants. The result has thus been a surge in assets invested in the category, to in excess of $170 billion today up from less than $3 billion in 2000 (Inglis 2015; Romito 2015). This influx of capital, in absolute dollars and pace of growth, has caused many to wonder whether activists truly create shareholder value and, if so, if the value generated is sustainable. Numerous studies of activist interventions prior to 2009 reveal significant stock price gains around the time of activist arrival and positive longer term buy-and-hold abnormal returns as well. The question remains, however, whether those trends have continued as volume of transactions and number of activists have increased post the recent global financial crisis. In this report, we perform an empirical analysis focused on a hand-collected dataset of 1,088 activist interventions from 1995-present. This dataset includes all 13D filings, as well as Under the Threshold activist campaigns. First, we analyze stock price returns for this group over short- and long-term periods and find that activists continue to unlock shareholder value in recent deals comparable to that of earlier ones. We then perform a proprietary regression to identify which factors drive the most successful returns. Such insights should prove informative for investors employing an activist strategy and companies looking to manage areas of vulnerability.

This Thesis aims at hedge funds analysis focused on legal regulation. Hedge funds are not very well-known in our country, they represent a specific kind of investment funds. A term which describes these funds most closely within our legal environment is "Funds of qalified investors". The first part of this Thesis is focused predominantely on general descsription of hedge funds, their histroy and specific features. The second part of the Thesis deals with strategy, legislation and some other aspects of hedge funds.

La thèse se compose de deux parties, une première partie sur la question de la définition des fonds spéculatifs et une deuxième partie sur la question de la gouvernance en relation au risque systémique. La première partie se compose de deux sous-parties. Une première est vouée à l'analyse de certains problèmes liminaires, comme les questions de méthode et d'autres de questions liées à la fonction économique des hedge funds. Dans cette sous-partie est également traitée la question des différents éléments qui concourent à définir les hedge funds (notamment la stratégie d'investissements, la structure légale, des questions contractuelles, la structure de la compensation des managers). Dans une deuxième sous-partie la question de la définition amène à une analyse des différentes juridictions des principaux états membres, suivie d'une étude comparative entre le système américain et européen.La deuxième partie est également structurée en deux-sous parties. Dans la première sous-partie, sont analysées les questions liées à la relation entre les hedge funds et la crise financière, la définition du risque systémique et les possibles options de gouvernance de la régulation. Dans la deuxième sous-partie est analysée le modèle de gouvernance de fonds spéculatifs qui émerge de la directive AIFM et autres dispositions. la question principale étant de savoir si un modèle de gouvernance d'inspiration bancaire peut être efficient dans le contexte de la régulation des hedge funds. / No English summary available.

Les stratégies de volatilité ont connu un rapide essor suite à la crise financière de 2008. Or, les récentes performances catastrophiques de ces instruments indiciels ont remis en question leurs contributions en couverture de portefeuille. Mes travaux de thèse visent à repenser, réinventer la philosophie des stratégies de volatilité. Au travers d'une analyse empirique préliminaire reposant sur la théorie de l'utilité espérée, le chapitre 1 dresse le diagnostic des stratégies traditionnelles de volatilité basées sur la couverture de long-terme par la réplication passive de la volatilité implicite. Il montre que, bien que ce type de couverture bat la couverture traditionnelle, elle s'avère inappropriée pour des investisseurs peu averses au risque.Le chapitre 2 ouvre la voie à une nouvelle génération de stratégies de volatilité, actives, optionnelles et basées sur l'investissement factoriel. En effet, notre décomposition analytique et empirique du smile de volatilité implicite en primes de risque implicites, distinctes et investissables permet de monétiser de manière active le portage de risques d'ordres supérieurs. Ces primes de risques mesurent l'écart de valorisation entre les distributions neutres au risque et les distributions physiques.Enfin, le chapitre 3 compare notre approche investissement factoriel avec les stratégies de volatilité employées par les hedge funds. Notre essai montre que nos stratégies de primes de risque d'assurance sont des déterminants importants dans la performance des hedge funds, tant en analyse temporelle que cross-sectionnelle. Ainsi, nous mettons en évidence dans quelle mesure l'alpha provient en réalité de la vente de stratégies d'assurance contre le risque extrême. / Volatility strategies have flourished since the Great Financial Crisis in 2008. Nevertheless, the recent catastrophic performance of such exchange-traded products has put into question their contributions for portfolio hedging and diversification. My thesis work aims to rethink and reinvent the philosophy of volatility strategies.From a preliminary empirical study based on the expected utility theory, Chapter 1 makes a diagnostic of traditional volatility strategies, based on buy-and-hold investments and passive replication of implied volatility. It exhibits that, although such portfolio hedging significantly outperforms traditional hedging, it appears strongly inappropriate for risk-loving investors.Chapter 2 paves the way for a new generation of volatility strategies, active, option-based and factor-based investing. Indeed, our both analytical and empirical decomposition of implied volatility smiles into a combination of implied risk premia, distinct and tradeable, enables to harvest actively the compensation for bearing higher-order risks. These insurance risk premia measure the pricing discrepanciesbetween the risk-neutral and the physical probability distributions.Finally, Chapter 3 compares our factor-based investing approach to the strategies usually employed in the hedge fund universe. Our essay clearly evidences that our tail risk premia strategies are incremental determinants in the hedge fund performance, in both the time-series and the cross-section of returns. Hence, we exhibit to what extent hedge fund alpha actually arises from selling crash insurance strategies against tail risks.

Made available in DSpace on 2015-12-03T18:33:14Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Ronaldo_Sueo_Hirota.pdf: 2239401 bytes, checksum: 481be2cb72a80eeb4e9057d7463e34cf (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015-03-23 / This study aims to analyze the influence of performance measure in the rankings of multimarket funds in Brazil. The specific objectives sought to understand the concepts and application of the parameters in the evaluation of investment funds performance, present the similarities and differences of performance measures of investment funds, verify the performance of mutual funds in the period of 6 years and applying the Spearman correlation coefficient to describe and measure the relationship between the rankings produced by different levels of performance. The main contribution of this work is to identify if the indicators create different rankings for the individual or corporate investor can decide how to evaluate these funds. It attempted to separate 385 multimarket investment funds which are not exclusive with returns that represent a normal distribution (309 funds) and non-normal distribution (76 funds), in the period of January 2008 to December 2013 to analyze the correlation of rankings between the indexes. The relevance of correlation between the performance measures is if these indexes impact directly in the rankings of multimarket investment funds. Existing high rank correlations, it s clear that it s up to the investor to decide which index to use evaluating the multimarket funds. In the period analyzed, there was a high correlation between the rates of Modigliani, Sharpe and Sortino. The Treynor index was the only one where it was found a low correlation with the others / O presente trabalho tem como principal objetivo analisar a influ??ncia dos ??ndices de desempenho nos rankings dos fundos multimercado no Brasil. Como objetivos espec??ficos, buscou-se compreender os conceitos e aplica????o dos ??ndices na avalia????o de desempenho de fundos de investimento, apresentar as semelhan??as e diferen??as dos ??ndices de desempenho de fundos de investimento, verificar o desempenho dos fundos de investimento no per??odo de 6 anos e aplicar o ??ndice de correla????o de Spearman para descrever e mensurar a rela????o entre os rankings produzidos por diferentes ??ndices de desempenho. A principal contribui????o desse trabalho ?? identificar se os indicadores de desempenho produzem rankings diferentes para que o investidor individual ou corporativo possa decidir como avaliar esses fundos. Buscou-se separar 385 fundos de investimento multimercado n??o exclusivos com retornos mensais que representam uma distribui????o normal (309 fundos) e distribui????o n??o normal (76 fundos), do per??odo de Janeiro de 2008 a Dezembro de 2013 para analisar a correla????o dos rankings entre os ??ndices. A relev??ncia da correla????o entre os ??ndices ?? analisar se a escolha dessas medidas impactam diretamente nos rankings dos fundos multimercado. Existindo alta correla????o, ?? poss??vel afirmar que fica a crit??rio do investidor qual ??ndice utilizar para a avalia????o de fundos. No per??odo analisado, houve alta correla????o entre os ??ndices de Modigliani, Sharpe e Sortino. O ??ndice de Treynor foi o ??nico em que foi constatada baixa correla????o com os demais.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-25T16:45:26Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Bolivar Godinho.pdf: 862228 bytes, checksum: ac96392dabbde54c61ec358b59f5f80a (MD5) Previous issue date: 2001-03-30 / This work comprehends relevant aspects of investment funds in Brasil and develops information about investment funds in the United States, which determines the trends of the sector The research was made with seventeen Asset Management Companies in Brasil of several sizes, with the purpose to discover the minimum amount of money necessary to administer a company. The break-even-point analysis demonstrated that there may be several company levels, according to the market segments and cost conformation. The productivity in the companies denotes economic scales in the sector that make the activity an important profit center for the big banks / O presente trabalho abrange os aspectos relevantes dos fundos de investimento no Brasil e apresenta informações sobre os fundos nos Estados Unidos, cujo mercado determina as tendências para o setor. A pesquisa envolveu dezessete administradores de fundos brasileiros de diversos tamanhos, com a finalidade de obter o volume mínimo administrado para viabilizar uma empresa de Asset Management. Através da análise do ponto de equilíbrio, constatou-se que existem diversos tamanhos de empresas economicamente viáveis, dependendo do segmento de mercado em que atuam e estrutura de custos. A produtividade nas empresas pesquisadas indicou a presença de economias de escala no setor, o que torna a atividade um importante centro de lucro para os bancos de grande porte.

nÃo hà / This work analyzes the performance graph and quantitative metrics under different gain, volatility, skewness, kurtosis and dynamic performance of portfolios composed of 85 investment funds Hedge in Brazil, vis-Ã-vis the major market benchmarks and traditional options investments. In this context, this empirical study is aligned with Matos e Artur (2011) strategies to address dynamic composition during the period 2005 to 2010, annual basis, containing the 10 winners and 10 funds Loosers. In scenarios characterized by economic boom or recovery of financial markets, the adoption of active strategies in funds winners in performance, equal stakes, provides increases in average earnings, risk reduction associated with diversification and thus increase performance in relation the benchmarks. This evidence is robust to the use of different performance metrics for the selection of funds. The strategy proposed activity is such that the investor bets each year in the 10 funds with better performance (winners) in Calmar, in Sharpe, Treynor and Sortino in. Analyses were also the same strategy, but buying the 10 funds with the worst performance (Loosers). According to the results, the annual ranking of Hedge Funds is very robust to changes in the performance metric used. The portfolios consist of the winners have funds throughout the period accumulated higher real earnings, the real gain around 25% higher than that obtained by the Savings and about 16% of funds portfolios Loosers. During the pre-crisis real earnings ranged between winners and Loosers during the period between the different portfolios, while in times of crisis real earnings of the Fund winners were around 35% higher than those obtained by the Funds Loosers. Noteworthy is the high performance, in absolute terms, with funds of winners portfolios compared to the savings, as well as the superiority in relation to portfolios with funds Loosers, a robust evidence consequence of technical expertise winners of funds and high risk exposure funds Loosers. / Este trabalho analisa o desempenho sob as mais diversas mÃtricas de ganho, volatilidade e performance de portfÃlios dinÃmicos compostos por 85 fundos de investimento Multimercado no Brasil, vis-Ã-vis os principais benchmarks de mercado e opÃÃes tradicionais de investimentos. Neste contexto, este estudo empÃrico està alinhado a Matos e Artur (2011), ao abordar estratÃgias de composiÃÃo dinÃmica, durante o perÃodo de 2005 a 2010, com frequÃncia anual, contendo os 10 fundos winners e os 10 fundos Loosers. Em cenÃrios econÃmicos caracterizados por boom ou mesmo recuperaÃÃo dos mercados financeiros, a adoÃÃo de estratÃgias ativa em fundos winners em performance proporciona aumentos de ganhos mÃdios, reduÃÃo de risco associada à diversificaÃÃo e, consequentemente, melhor desempenho em relaÃÃo a benchmarks. Esta evidÃncia à robusta ao uso de diferentes mÃtricas de performance para seleÃÃo dos fundos. A estratÃgia ativa proposta, à tal que, o investidor aposta a cada ano nos 10 fundos com melhor performance (winners) em Calmar, em Sharpe, em Sortino e em Treynor. Analisa-se, tambÃm, a mesma estratÃgia, porÃm comprando os 10 fundos com pior performance (Loosers). Segundo os resultados, o ranking anual dos fundos Multimercados à robusto à mudanÃa na mÃtrica de performance usada. Os portfÃlios compostos pelos fundos winners possuem durante todo o perÃodo ganhos reais acumulados superiores, com o ganho real em torno de 25% superior ao obtido pela PoupanÃa e cerca de 16% das carteiras compostas pelos fundos Loosers. Durante o PerÃodo prÃ-crise os ganhos reais entre winners e Loosers oscilaram durante todo o perÃodo entre as diferentes carteiras, enquanto que no perÃodo de crise os ganhos reais dos Fundos winners ficaram em torno de 35% superiores aos obtidos pelos Fundos Loosers. Destaca-se o alto desempenho, em termos absolutos, dos portfÃlios com fundos winners quando comparados com a poupanÃa, assim como a superioridade com relaÃÃo aos portfÃlios com fundos Loosers, uma evidÃncia robusta consequÃncia da expertise tÃcnica dos fundos winners e da elevada exposiÃÃo ao risco dos fundos Loosers.

Submitted by MFEE Mestrado Profissional em Finanças e Economia Empresarial da EPGE (mfee@fgv.br) on 2015-02-23T22:54:26Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Felipe Cotrim - Versão Final.pdf: 2874262 bytes, checksum: c9adf65f93c0c6c7ad37a5c1dd872036 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Marcia Bacha (marcia.bacha@fgv.br) on 2015-03-04T13:06:22Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 Felipe Cotrim - Versão Final.pdf: 2874262 bytes, checksum: c9adf65f93c0c6c7ad37a5c1dd872036 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Marcia Bacha (marcia.bacha@fgv.br) on 2015-03-04T13:06:37Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 Felipe Cotrim - Versão Final.pdf: 2874262 bytes, checksum: c9adf65f93c0c6c7ad37a5c1dd872036 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2015-03-04T13:06:56Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Felipe Cotrim - Versão Final.pdf: 2874262 bytes, checksum: c9adf65f93c0c6c7ad37a5c1dd872036 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2012-09-17 / With lhe increase of lhe number of assei managers and an even larger a number of investments alternatives in lhe Brazilian hedge fund industry, Fund of Hedge Funds became an alternative for investors planning to diversify their investments through financiai specialists. The intention of this study is to evaluate lhe capacity of Brazilian Funds of Hedge Funds (FoHF), classified as Multimercados Multigestor, to generate abnormal returns (alpha). For this porpoise we studied a sample of 1421 Fund of Hedg Funds between January of 2005 and December of 2011. The results of multi-factor model regressions, derived from Jensen's model (1968), suggest that only 3.03% of lhe funds in lhe sample can add value. The three main potential sources of alpha generalion in Funds of Hedge Funds come from lhe strategic allocation of lhe portfolios, lhe anticipation of market movements (market timing) and lhe capacity of FoHF managers to select lhe best assei managers in lhe industry to com pose its portfolio (fund selection). To evaluate lhe Brazilian FoHF manager's ability to anticipate market movements we included quadratic terms in lhe multi-factor models, as proposed by Treynor and Mazuy (1966). The results showed lha! managers, on average, could not add value by market timing. To evaluate lhe strategic allocation ability and lhe fund's selection abilities, we created a new variable with lhe information about lhe asseis in lhe porlfolio of each fund in lhe sample in every different month. The tests indicated that FoHF managers, on average, could no! add value by selecting lhe best managers, but lhe strategic allocation ability showed a positive contribution to FoHF's return. We also studied lhe alpha generation capacity before costs. lt raised lhe percentage of funds with positive alpha to 6.39% of lhe funds in lhe sample, but it was no! able to change lhe signal of lhe average alpha, lha! remained nega tive. / Com o aumento do número de gestores especializados em um número cada vez maior de possibilidades de investimentos na indústria de fundos brasileira, os fundos Multigestor se tornaram uma alternativa para os investidores que procuram diversificar seus investimentos e delegam às instituições financeiras o trabalho de alocar os recursos dentro das diferentes estratégias e fundos existentes no mercado. O intuito deste estudo é avaliar a capacidade de gerar retornos anormais (alfa) dos fundos de fundos da indústria brasileira, classificados como Fundos Multimercados Multigestor. Para isso foi estudada uma amostra com 1.421 fundos Multigestor com tributação de Longo Prazo no período de janeiro de 2005 a dezembro de 2011. A análise dos resultados encontrados através de regressões de modelos de vários fatores, derivados do modelo de Jensen (1968), sugere que apenas 3,03% dos fundos estudados conseguem adicionar valor a seus cotistas. Foram estudadas ainda as três principais fontes potenciais de geração de alfa dos fundos de fundos, a escolha das estratégias que compõe a carteira do fundo (alocação estratégica), a antecipação de movimentos de mercado (market timing) e a capacidade selecionar os melhores fundos dentro de cada estratégia (seleção de fundos). A partir da inclusão de termos quadráticos, conforme proposto pelos modelos de Treynor e Mazuy (1966) pode-se verificar que os fundos Multigestor, em média, não conseguem adicionar valor tentando antecipar movimentos de mercado (market timing). Através da construção de uma variável explicativa com a composição estratégica de cada fundo da amostra em cada período de tempo, pode-se verificar que os gestores de fundos de fundos, em média, também fracassam ao tentar selecionar os melhores fundos/gestores da indústria. Já a escolha das estratégias que compõe a carteira do fundo (alocação estratégica) mostrou contribuir positivamente para o retorno dos fundos. Ainda foi avaliada a capacidade de gerar alfa antes dos custos, o que elevou o percentual de fundos com alfa positivo para 6,39% dos fundos estudados, mas foi incapaz de alterar o sinal do alfa médio, que permaneceu negativo.

Submitted by Eduardo Alonso Marza dos Santos (eduardo.marza.santos@gmail.com) on 2015-06-21T10:30:55Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Eduardo_A_M_Santos.pdf: 646820 bytes, checksum: aaba122a576d7c75ad0e5803539c25d4 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Suzinei Teles Garcia Garcia (suzinei.garcia@fgv.br) on 2015-06-22T11:46:18Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 Eduardo_A_M_Santos.pdf: 646820 bytes, checksum: aaba122a576d7c75ad0e5803539c25d4 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2015-06-22T11:56:18Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Eduardo_A_M_Santos.pdf: 646820 bytes, checksum: aaba122a576d7c75ad0e5803539c25d4 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015-05-28 / The dissertation goal is to quantify the tail risk premium embedded into hedge funds' returns. Tail risk is the probability of extreme large losses. Although it is a rare event, asset pricing theory suggests that investors demand compensation for holding assets sensitive to extreme market downturns. By de nition, such events have a small likelihood to be represented in the sample, what poses a challenge to estimate the e ects of tail risk by means of traditional approaches such as VaR. The results show that it is not su cient to account for the tail risk stemming from equities markets. Active portfolio management employed by hedge funds demand a speci c measure to estimate and control tail risk. Our proposed factor lls that void inasmuch it presents explanatory power both over the time series as well as the cross-section of funds' returns. / O objetivo do trabalho é quanti car o prêmio de risco de cauda presente nos retornos de fundos de investimento americanos. Risco de cauda é o risco de perdas excepcionalmente elevadas. Apesar de ser um evento raro, a teoria de apreçamento de ativos sugere que os investidores exigem um prêmio de risco para reter ativos expostos a eventos negativos extremos (eventos de cauda). Por de nição, observações extremas têm baixa probabilidade de estarem presentes na amostra, o que di culta a estimação dos impactos de risco de cauda sobre os retornos e reduz o poder de técnicas tradicionais como VaR. Os resultados indicam que não é su ciente controlar somente para o risco de cauda do mercado de capitais. A gestão ativa de portfólio por parte dos gestores de fundos requer uma medida própria para estimação e o controle de risco de cauda. O fator de risco de cauda que propomos cumpre este papel ao apresentar poder explicativo tanto na série temporal dos retornos quanto no corte transversal.

Made available in DSpace on 2010-04-20T21:00:12Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 4 Lucas Machado Braga de Araujo.pdf.jpg: 18740 bytes, checksum: e39415b36953ced37a6d87a19c381b38 (MD5) Lucas Machado Braga de Araujo.pdf.txt: 95713 bytes, checksum: a95ad7b44ec22b2f5ba2dbfe4f6798bb (MD5) Lucas Machado Braga de Araujo.pdf: 758972 bytes, checksum: c20d926964cc37d2ee7bdfc1bdf6aafc (MD5) license.txt: 4886 bytes, checksum: f5ef202e66d94f51fd6c9a09505731a6 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z / The aim of this work is to show that the optimization of a portfolio composed of Brazilian hedge funds presents better results when the risk measure considered is Conditional Value-at-Risk. Portfolio optimization models aim to select assets that maximize the investor‘s return for a given level of risk. Therefore the definition of an appropriate measure of risk is of fundamental importance to the allocation process. The traditional methodology of portfolio optimization, developed by Markowitz, uses the variance of assets returns as risk measure. However variance is a measure appropriate only for cases where the returns are normally distributed or that the investor utility function is quadratic. Nevertheless it will be shown that the returns of Brazilian hedge funds usually do not have a Normal distribution. Consequently, to perform the optimization of a portfolio composed by Brazilian hedge funds is necessary to use an alternative risk measure. / O objetivo do trabalho é demonstrar que a otimização de uma carteira composta por fundos multimercados brasileiros gera melhores resultados quando a medida de risco utilizada é o Conditional Value-at-Risk. Modelos de otimização de carteira têm como objetivo selecionar ativos que maximizem o retorno do investidor para um determinado nível de risco. Assim, a definição de uma medida apropriada de risco é de fundamental importância para o processo de alocação. A metodologia tradicional de otimização de carteiras, desenvolvida por Markowitz, utiliza como medida de risco a variância dos retornos. Entretanto, a variância é uma medida apenas apropriada para casos em que os retornos são normalmente distribuídos ou em que os investidores possuem funções de utilidade quadrática. Porém, o trabalho mostra que os retornos dos fundos multimercados brasileiros tendem a não apresentar distribuição normal. Logo, para efetuar a otimização de uma carteira composta por fundos multimercados brasileiros é necessário utilizar uma medida de risco alternativa.