The study reveals that the COVID-19 crisis has had a strong but one-off negative impact on the hedge fund industry. It also shows that during the new coronavirus pandemic, the main components of the hedge fund industry achieved only partially their main investment goal, i.e. they as a whole provided a hedge of the investment risk but did not produce higher than the market return in the conditions of a growing capital market. In this situation, due to the relatively stable М&A market, the Event-Driven Risk Arbitrage strategy was undoubtedly most successful, followed by the Emerging Markets, the Global Macro and the Long/Short Equity strategies. The worst performance was reported for the Fixed Income Arbitrage strategy due to the currently overvalued bond markets and to the expectations for higher inflation rates in the countries with developed capital markets.

We provide a model of hedge fund securing financing from a prime broker where deterioration in collateral value exacerbates counterparty risk and liquidity risk for the prime broker due to strategic actions of hedge funds. Costs of liquidity insurance and enforcing contracts determine hedge fund leverage. The model provides several new insights. First, it uncovers a new channel for funding liquidity that can explain why illiquid funds fare worse in times of stress and why better governed funds fared better during the financial crisis. Second, the model provides a new testable hypothesis that systematic or idiosyncratic shocks to fundamentals of bank holding companies may spillover to connected hedge funds through internal capital markets. It also offers an identification strategy to distinguish between possible competing hypotheses. Third, strong governance at hedge funds may reduce incentives to invest in profitable opportunities. Fourth, banking reforms such as Supplementary Leverage Ratio, Liquidity Coverage Ratio and Standing Repo Facility intended to improve resilience of banks may also make hedge funds less vulnerable to shocks in the banking sector. Fifth, the model offers a possible reconciliation for the mixed evidence on the impact of leverage on hedge fund survival documented in the literature.

摘要：作者对实际使用的对冲模型提出研究，在本文中建立了一个在指数.指数期货.指数期权上的进行无套利对冲的前沿模型，揭开了对冲基金使用数量模型神秘的面纱。通过比较从市场指数和指数期货中估计得出的风险中性密度函数与从隐含在指数期权市场的风险中性密度函数，发现对冲机会，设计对冲交易策略。我们这里采用的估计方法为非参数方法,是对BS模型的拓展。 Abstract: In this paper, the authors make a research on the field of hedge model, after the investigation of some hedge funds in U.S. ,we establish a frontier no-arbitrage hedge model for index.index futures and index options. We compare the risk neutral density estimated from cross section of index market to the risk neutral density inferred from the time series of index and index future markets. The methods we used are nonparametric method and hypothesis test. We can find the arbitrage opportunity and design the hedge trading strategy.