Room: V311 (School of Business building, 3rd floor)
Tel: +358 40 557 1974
Email: [email protected]
Research
Published papers
Joenväärä J., Mäkiaho J., and Torstila S. (2021) "Prolonged Private Equity Holding Periods: Six Years Is the New Normal". Forthcoming at the Journal of Alternative Investments.
Joenväärä J., Kauppila M. and Kahra H. (2021) “Hedge Fund Portfolio Selection with Fund Characteristics”. Journal of Banking and Finance 132, 106-232.
Bollen N., Joenväärä J. and Kauppila M. (2021) “Hedge Fund Performance: End of an Era”. Financial Analysts Journal, 77:3, 109-132.
Joenväärä J., Kosowski R. (2021) "The Effect of Regulatory Constraints on Fund Performance: New Evidence from UCITS Hedge Funds", Review of Finance, 25(1), 189 – 233.
Joenväärä J., Kauppila M., Kosowski R. and Tolonen P. (2021) “Hedge Fund Performance: Are Stylized Facts Sensitive to Which Database One Uses?” Critical Finance Review, 10(2), 271–327.
Joenväärä J., Kosowski R. and Tolonen P. (2019) “The Effect of Investment Constraints on Fund Investor Performance”, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis 54, 1539-1571.
Joenväärä J. and Scherer B. (2019) “Frictional Diversification Costs: Evidence from a Panel of Fund of Hedge Fund Holdings”, Journal of Empirical Finance 52, 92-111.
Joenväärä J. and Scherer B. (2017) “A Note on the Valuation of Asset Management Firms”, Financial Markets and Portfolio Management 31, 181–199.
Working papers
Joenväärä J. and Tiu C. “Hedge Fund Flows and Name Gravitas”
Joenväärä J., Karppinen J., Teo M. and Tiu C. “The Vocabulary of Hedge Funds”
Joenväärä J., Kauppila M. and Tolonen P. “Information Content of Hedge Fund Equity Option Holdings”
Aragon G., Jiang Y., Joenväärä J. and Tiu C. “Socially Responsible Investments: Costs and Benefits for University Endowment Funds”
Barth D., Joenväärä J., Kauppila M. and Wermers R. “The Hedge Fund Industry is Bigger (and Has Performed Better) Than You Think”
Work in progress
Grønborg N., Joenväärä J., Nielsen O., and Timmermann A. “Hedge Fund Selection: Best Athletes or Portfolio Gains”
Selected media mentions and appearances
Altersvorsorge neu gedacht, Lohnen sich Hedgefonds für Privatanleger?, August 15, 2022
The hidden $11 Tn hedge fund industry | Navesink International, January 26, 2022
Forbes, This Study Proves Hedge Fund Performance Has Worsened In Recent Years, Jun 30, 2021
Institutional Investor, How Regulators Killed Hedge Funds, May 24, 2021
Top of the class: do SRI-focused endowments perform better? UNPRI Academic Blog, May 29, 2020
HedgeNordic, Sophisticated Writers Make Better HF Managers, September 2, 2019
Institutional Investor, Good Writers Make Better Hedge Fund Managers, August 28, 2019
Financial Times, A complex analysis reaches same conclusion as simple one: hedge funds suck, April 24, 2018
ThinkAdvisor, Beware falling for hedge funds with important-sounding names, April 12, 2017
Fast Company, Don’t judge a hedge fund by its name even if you really want to, April 13, 2017
MarketWatch, Investors have a silly way of picking hedge funds, and it costs them big time, April 13, 2017
Private Wealth magazine, Why shouldn’t judge a hedge fund by its name, April 13, 2017
CNBC, Investors like hedge funds with powerful-sounding names, even if they fail to deliver, March 29, 2017
Vanity Fair, Hedge fund investors like hedge fund names that suggest gravitas, even if their returns suck, March 24, 2017
Bloomberg, Public markets and hedge-fund closings, March 24, 2017
Valuewalk, Hedge funds name gravitas, March 2017
Dealbreaker, Sophisticated investors choose hedge funds that sound big and heavy, March 24, 2017
Institutional Investor, Hedge funds with strong, powerful names attract the most money, March 24, 2017
Quartz, Supposedly sophisticated investors seem to be susceptible to flashy hedge fund names, March 27, 2017
Financial Times, Are star fund managers a dying breed?, March 27, 2014
Financial Times, Hedge funds performance versus liquidity, April 5, 2013
Financial Times, Hedge fund industry fights back on criticism, April 24, 2012
Teaching
Capstone: Alternative Investments
BSc Thesis