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Comparing Portfolio Diversification Strategies In Different Market Environments, Kyle Tobias Koerten
Comparing Portfolio Diversification Strategies In Different Market Environments, Kyle Tobias Koerten
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Diversification In Hedge Fund Portfolios, Melvyn Teo
Diversification In Hedge Fund Portfolios, Melvyn Teo
Research Collection BNP Paribas Hedge Fund Centre
We explore the diversification benefits of increasing the number of hedge funds in an investment portfolio. Conventional wisdom suggests that investors should construct a portfolio of 20 to 30 hedge funds in order to achieve a reasonably low portfolio variance. We show using Monte Carlo simulations that the marginal benefit of including an additional hedge fund in a fund portfolio diminishes significantly once the number of hedge funds increases beyond ten. Specifically, the annualized standard deviation of a fund portfolio diminishes from 16.55 percent to 7.40 percent as we increase the number of funds from one to ten. However, the …