What is a fund of funds?

You own a portfolio of common stocks that more or less tracks the stock index in the preceding table. The statistics are historical but you believe they are reasonable forecasts of future returns. Rely on the following table to answer questions 2.13 to 2.17.

Performance of Hedge Fund Styles (Hypothetical)

Fund Style

Return

Standard
Deviation

Correlation
to Stocks

Convertible arbitrage

8.00%

4.33%

10.00%

Global macro

12.00%

12.99%

25.00%

Long/short equity

10.00%

8.66%

50.00%

Stock index

10.00%

17.32%

100.00%