Revisiting Kat's Managed Futures and Hedge Funds

30 Sep 2012
By Red Rock Capital

In this paper, we revisit and update Kat’s original work. Using similar data for the period June 2001- December 2011, we find that his observations continue to hold true more than 10 years later. During the subsequent 10 years, a highly volatile period that included separate stock market drawdowns of 36% and 56%, managed futures have continued to provide more effective and more valuable diversification for portfolios of stocks and bonds than have hedge funds.

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