Hedge fund leverage

Andrew Ang (), Sergiy Gorovyy and Gregory B. van Inwegen

Journal of Financial Economics, 2011, vol. 102, issue 1, 102-126

Abstract: We investigate the leverage of hedge funds in the time series and cross-section. Hedge fund leverage is counter-cyclical to the leverage of listed financial intermediaries and decreases prior to the start of the financial crisis in mid-2007. Hedge fund leverage is lowest in early 2009 when the market leverage of investment banks is highest. Changes in hedge fund leverage tend to be more predictable by economy-wide factors than by fund-specific characteristics. In particular, decreases in funding costs and increases in market values both forecast increases in hedge fund leverage. Decreases in fund return volatilities predict future increases in leverage.

Keywords: Capital; structure; Long-short; positions; Alternative; investments; Exposure; Hedging; Systemic; risk (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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