Costs and benefits of financial conglomerate affiliation: Evidence from hedge funds
研究金融集团附属如何影响对冲基金的资本获取、风险承担和业绩，发现附属基金的资金流动对业绩的敏感度更低，尤其在金融危机时，但平均业绩略受影响。
This paper explores how affiliation to financial conglomerates affects asset managers' access to capital, risk taking, and performance. Focusing on a sample of hedge funds, we find that financial conglomerate-affiliated hedge funds (FCAHFs) have lower flow-performance sensitivity than other hedge funds and that this difference is particularly pronounced during financial turmoil. Arguably, thanks to more stable funding, FCAHFs allow their investors to redeem capital more freely and are able to capture price rebounds. Because investors could value these characteristics, our findings provide a rationale for why financial conglomerate affiliation is widespread, although it slightly hampers performance on average.