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Hedge-Fund Benchmarks: Information Content and Biases

William Fung William Fung is co-CEO at PI Asset Management, LLC, Delaware, and a visiting research professor at the Centre for Hedge Fund Research and Education, London Business School, United Kingdom.
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David A. Hsieh David A. Hsieh is professor of finance at the Fuqua School of Business, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina.
Pages 22-34 | Published online: 02 Jan 2019

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