Journal of Mathematical Finance

Volume 6, Issue 1 (February 2016)

ISSN Print: 2162-2434   ISSN Online: 2162-2442

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Alternative Alphas from Hedge Fund ETF Speculation

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DOI: 10.4236/jmf.2016.61004    4,661 Downloads   5,797 Views  Citations
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ABSTRACT

Alternative alpha represents risk-adjust absolute return of an alternative investing instrument regressed on alternative risk factors. Over the years, the definition is extended to the absolute return generated from alternative asset speculation-long-only or long-short strategy on alternative assets to generate additional return on top of existence alpha. In this article, we examine and propose a model with state-dependent stochastic differential equations based on Gaussian mixture model and multi-class Gaussian-kernel support vector machine to analyze hedge fund ETF alpha. We provide a new type of long-short speculation which trades on hedge fund strategies. This long-short alternative portfolio is build based on a Sharpe-ratio-like alpha ratio optimization program, and the historical performance from the portfolio shows statistically significant improvement adding to existing alphas. For passive investors, the portfolio also yields a simple portable alpha strategy which outperforms the S&P 500 benchmark return by 7.8% since 2012.

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Lin, P. (2016) Alternative Alphas from Hedge Fund ETF Speculation. Journal of Mathematical Finance, 6, 34-42. doi: 10.4236/jmf.2016.61004.

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