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Are Funds of Funds Simply Multi-Strategy Managers with Extra Fees? IIJ-JAI-0000-0711-REDDY00-001:IIJ-JAI-0000-0711-REDDY00-001 9/1/10 1:54 PM Page 49 Are Funds of Funds Simply Multi-Strategy Managers with Extra Fees? GIRISH REDDY,PETER BRADY, AND KARTIK PATEL Only GIRISH REDDY n recent years, an increasing number of hedge funds to multi-strategy hedge funds. is a founder and managing institutional investors have begun to allo- Agrawal and Kale [2007] recently published partner of Prisma Capital cate capital to hedge funds.By 2008,pen- an article comparing the performance of funds Partners in Jersey City,NJ. [email protected] sions and other large institutions are of funds and multi-strategy hedge funds.They Iexpected to have over $300 billion invested in examined performance reported in the Lipper PETER BRADY hedge funds compared to only $5 billion a TASS database for the period 1994–2004,and is director of client services decade ago (Atlas and Walsh [2005]). The pri- found that multi-strategy hedge funds signifi- at Prisma Capital Partners mary reason for this enormous growth is that cantly outperformed hedge fund of funds on in Jersey City,NJ. hedge funds offer attractive risk-adjusted both an absolute and risk-adjusted basis. [email protected] returns, low correlation to traditional asset Agarwal and Kale attribute the superior per- KARTIK PATEL classes,and a source of alpha.Therefore,an allo- formance of multi-strategy hedge funds pri- is an associate in the Risk cation to hedge funds has the potential to marily to “managerial self selection,” hypoth- Management Group at increase the risk-adjusted returns of a portfolio. esizing that “better” managers self select into Prisma Capital Partners in In this article, we compare two approaches to running multi-strategy hedge funds.While the Jersey City,NJ. hedge fund investing that many institutions con- methodology of this study is sound, there are [email protected] sider: 1) a broadly diversified fund of hedge a number of issues that limit the impact of the funds,and 2) a small portfolio of multi-strategy authors’ conclusion. First, although the study hedge funds. Although funds of funds and covers a significant time period (1994–2004), multi-strategy hedge funds are not mutually the sample size is quite small.There were only exclusive,1 eachMembers approach has potential advan- 27 funds classified as multi-strategy funds in tages and disadvantages. 1994, of which 14 were “dead” funds, i.e., There is a significant body of literature funds that were no longer in operation.Despite about the risk and return characteristics of the significant growth in multi-strategy man- individual hedge funds (see, e.g., Fung and agers, there were still only 116 multi-strategy Hsieh [1997];Schneeweis and Spurgin [1998], funds (representing $34 billion in assets under and Brown and Goetzmann [2001]).There are management) in the database as of 2004. It is also several articles that compare the perfor- difficult to draw definitive conclusions on the mance of funds of funds to individual hedge basis of such a small sample of funds. Another funds (see, for e.g., Brown et al. [1999]; Amin issue is the fact that no adjustment is made for and Kat [2003]; Fung and Hsieh [2004], and funds that may be closed. Some of the top- Brown,Goetzmann,and Liang [2004]).How- performing multi-strategy hedge funds no CAIAever, there have been very few articles that longer accept new investments, so while they directly compare the performance of funds of may indeed offer superior performance, 2011 CAIA LEVEL II: CURRENT AND INTEGRATED TOPICS 49 This publication is made available by Institutional Investor Journals and the CAIA Association for CAIA members only. It is illegal to distribute, post electronically, or make unauthorized copies of this copyrighted material. IIJ-JAI-0000-0711-REDDY00-001:IIJ-JAI-0000-0711-REDDY00-001 9/1/10 1:54 PM Page 50 investors may not actually be able to access this perfor- tent, we limited our analysis to funds with at least $25 mance. A final point worth noting is that this study was million in assets and we focused on the past six years.3 concluded prior to the implosion of Amaranth Advisors in the summer of 2006.When Amaranth suffered a severe ALPHA POTENTIAL drawdown, it was reportedly managing over $9 billion in assets. Given the fact that all of the multi-strategy man- Strategy Allocation and Manager Selection agers included in the Agarwal and Kale study collectively managed $34 billion in assets as of 2004, it is likely that The two key elements of building a hedge fund this event would have had a significant impact on the portfolio are determining the mix of strategies in which results. The potential risks associated with investing in a to invest (strategy allocation) and choosing managers multi-strategy manager like Amaranth are addressed in within these strategies (manager selection). Before com- the risk management section of this article. paring multi-strategy funds to funds of funds in these two In this article, we compare fund of funds to multi- areas, it is worthwhile to understand the potential impact strategy hedge funds along three dimensions:alpha poten- each can have on performance. A number of studies have tial, risk management, and business model. Rather than shown that for traditional asset classes,Only the vast majority directly comparing the performance of multi-strategy of investment performance is driven by asset allocation hedge funds and funds of hedge funds, we attempt to decisions, and that manager selection is far less important quantify the potential differences in performance by mod- (Brinson, Hood, and Beebower [1986]; Ibbotson and eling some of the underlying factors that account for per- Kaplan [2000]). For example, the decision of how much formance differences. capital to allocate to domestic equity, fixed income, emerging markets, commodities, etc. is likely to have a much greater impact on the performance of a portfolio METHODOLOGY than the decision about which international equity or An obvious way to compare multi-strategy funds to fixed income managers are chosen. This insight is true funds of funds is to analyze historical performance of because the difference in performance between strategies hedge fund indices. Unfortunately,there are a number of tends to be much greater than the difference between issues related to the major hedge fund indices that make managers within a particular strategy. For example, the it impractical to simply compare historical performance performance of most domestic large-cap equity managers of funds of funds and multi-strategy indices.Several authors will not stray very far from their benchmark, so the deci- have shown that non-investable indices are subject to both sion to invest with Fidelity or Merrill Lynch is far less survivorship bias and selection bias (Brown, Goetzmann, important than the decision of how much to invest in and Ibbotson [1999];Fung and Hsieh [2000];Liang [2000], domestic large-cap equity versus other asset classes. and Malkiel and Saha [2006]).In addition,even investable An analysis of the recent performance of a number indices can be significantly affected by selection bias.More of traditional asset classes shows that asset allocation has importantly, none of the major indexMembers providers publish indeed been more important than manager selection. both a fund of funds index and a multi-strategy index.2 Exhibit 1 shows the annualized return of the median man- In addition, each index uses different selection criteria ager in a number of traditional asset classes over the six and calculation methodologies (for example,CSFB is asset years ending in March 2006. Over this period, returns weighted, whereas HFRI is not). For this reason, rather ranged from +1.9% for large-cap growth stocks to +9.0% than simply comparing headline performance of indices, for international stocks, a spread of 7.1% per annum. we tried to quantify a number of the differences between By contrast,the dispersion of returns between man- funds of funds and multi-strategy funds by analyzing his- agers in these asset classes is quite low.Exhibit 2 shows the torical data of underlying managers from the TASS data- inter-quartile range4 of manager performance in these base.It contains monthly performance data for over 7,000 same asset classes,also over the past six years.It shows that hedge funds, including funds that have gone out of busi- the difference in performance between top and bottom ness. Using this database, we attempted to measure the quartile managers has averaged only 2% per annum over CAIApotential impact on performance of a number of the key the past six years. return drivers.In order to keep our methodology consis- 50 ARE FUNDS OF FUNDS SIMPLY MULTI-STRATEGY MANAGERS WITH EXTRA FEES?THE JOURNAL OF ALTERNATIVE INVESTMENTS This publication is made available by Institutional Investor Journals and the CAIA Association for CAIA members only. It is illegal to distribute, post electronically, or make unauthorized copies of this copyrighted material. IIJ-JAI-0000-0711-REDDY00-001:IIJ-JAI-0000-0711-REDDY00-001 9/1/10 1:54 PM Page 51 E XHIBIT 1 Asset Allocation—Traditional Assets Only Source: morningstar.com. E XHIBIT 2 Manager Selection—Traditional Assets Members CAIA Source: morningstar.com, June. 2011 CAIA LEVEL II: CURRENT AND INTEGRATED TOPICS 51 This publication is made available by Institutional Investor Journals and the CAIA Association for CAIA members only. It is illegal to distribute, post electronically, or make unauthorized copies of this copyrighted material. IIJ-JAI-0000-0711-REDDY00-001:IIJ-JAI-0000-0711-REDDY00-001 9/1/10 1:54 PM Page 52 Hedge Funds are Unique compared to traditional managers.Hedge funds generally do not focus on a specific benchmark.
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