Return Smoothing, Liquidity Costs, and Investor Flows: Evidence from a Separate Account Platform

We use a new hedge fund data set from a separate account platform to examine (1) how much of hedge fund return smoothing is due to main fund-specific factors, such as managerial reporting discretion and (2) the costs of removing hedge fund share restrictions. These accounts trade pari passu with mat...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Cao, Charles, Farnsworth, Grant, Liang, Bing, Lo, Andrew W
Other Authors: Sloan School of Management
Format: Article
Published: Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) 2020
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/128478