Abstract:We investigate the effects of drawdown risk reduction on the US hedge funds. Despite the existence of numerous evidences on the asymmetric distribution of portfolio returns, the asymmetric risk measures have been extensively applied in risk management during recent years with the considerable applications on the lower partial moment (LPM) methodology. Unlike prior literatures, we use the drawdown risk measure (DRM), which is a special case of LPM, to study the impacts of drawdown risk decrease on management st… Show more
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