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Original Articles

Determining a stable relationship between hedge fund index HFRI-Equity and S&P 500 behaviour, using filtering and maximum likelihood

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Pages 83-109 | Received 15 Oct 2008, Accepted 29 May 2009, Published online: 08 Oct 2009

Figures & data

Figure 1. Reconstruction of the parameters ε, θ, χ, γ (in ordinate) of the model (1–3), as a function of the index i (in abscissa) of the last observation time contained in the data window used in the calibration.

Figure 1. Reconstruction of the parameters ε, θ, χ, γ (in ordinate) of the model (1–3), as a function of the index i (in abscissa) of the last observation time contained in the data window used in the calibration.

Figure 2. Reconstruction of the initial stochastic variance and of the parameters β, (in ordinate) of the model (1–3), as a function of the index i (in abscissa) of the last observation time contained in the data window used in the calibration.

Figure 2. Reconstruction of the initial stochastic variance and of the parameters β, (in ordinate) of the model (1–3), as a function of the index i (in abscissa) of the last observation time contained in the data window used in the calibration.

Figure 3. Reconstruction of the correlation coefficients ρ1,2, ρ1,3, ρ2,3 (in ordinate) of the model (1–3), as a function of the index i (in abscissa) of the last observation time contained in the data window used in the calibration.

Figure 3. Reconstruction of the correlation coefficients ρ1,2, ρ1,3, ρ2,3 (in ordinate) of the model (1–3), as a function of the index i (in abscissa) of the last observation time contained in the data window used in the calibration.

Table 1. Relative bias of the parameter estimators in the five windows (NR = 100).

Table 2. Relative bias of the correlation coefficients and of the initial stochastic variance in the five windows (NR = 100).

Table 3. Relative bias of the parameter estimators in the five windows (NR = 1000).

Table 4. Relative bias of the correlation coefficients and of the initial stochastic variance in the five windows (NR = 1000).

Table 5. Mean of the standard deviations of the relative errors of the components of the estimated vectors and worst standard deviation and parameter where it occurs (NR = 1000).

Table 6. Relative bias of the parameter estimators in Set 2 (Period 2) and Set 3 (Period 3).

Table 7. Relative bias of the correlation coefficients and of the initial stochastic variance in Set 2 (Period 2) and Set 3 (Period 3).

Table 8. Quality of the forecasted values of the log-returns xt and zt and of the forecasted increment of the hedge fund index established comparing with historical data.

Figure 4. Histogram of the values taken by (a) ν1, (b) ν3 and (c) ν6.

Figure 4. Histogram of the values taken by (a) ν1, (b) ν3 and (c) ν6.

Figure 5. Forecasted values of the S&P 500 xt (a) and of the HFRI-Equity zt (b) 1 month in the future (*) and historical data of the log-return of the indices (□).

Figure 5. Forecasted values of the S&P 500 xt (a) and of the HFRI-Equity zt (b) 1 month in the future (*) and historical data of the log-return of the indices (□).

Figure 6. Forecasted values of the S&P 500 xt (a) and of the HFRI-Equity zt (b) 3 months in the future (*) and historical data of the log-return of the indices (□).

Figure 6. Forecasted values of the S&P 500 xt (a) and of the HFRI-Equity zt (b) 3 months in the future (*) and historical data of the log-return of the indices (□).

Figure 7. Forecasted values of the S&P 500 xt (a) and of the HFRI-Equity zt (b) 6 months in the future (*) and historical data of the log-return of the indices (□).

Figure 7. Forecasted values of the S&P 500 xt (a) and of the HFRI-Equity zt (b) 6 months in the future (*) and historical data of the log-return of the indices (□).

Table 9. The first 46 monthly data and the forecasted values of the log-returns of the HFRI-Equity index 1 month and 6 months in the future compared with the historical data of the 1 month log-return and of the 6 months log-return .

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