Hedge Fund Styles And Macroeconomic Uncertainty

This paper examines the dynamic trading strategies implemented by hedge fund managers using a Kalman filter of hedge fund betas across styles. We investigate the risk drivers of dynamic trades, examining which conditioning/macroeconomic variables strongly lead time variation in fund trades. We show that hedge fund managers do control the intensity of their exposure to economic uncertainty and that differences between up- and down-market regimes can be observed.