Saturday, January 07, 2006

Hedge Funds With Losing Records to Liquidate - New York Times

Hedge Funds With Losing Records to Liquidate - New York Times: "Hedge Funds With Losing Records to Liquidate "

A perfect example of survivorship bias in funds. Hedge funds that are unsucessful are being closed, so when people use only existing firms to measure performance, there is a tendency to overestimate actual returns since we are missing the lower tail of the distribution.

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