The authors consider the dynamic market strategies of
hedge funds by using the Kalman filter. There are many studies on the behavior of
conditional alphas and betas of hedge funds,but the dynamics of these
coefficients is studied within the traditional regression framework: The
resulting conditional alphas and betas are hence for a great part arbitrary
because they do not result from a dynamic optimization process. In this article,
the authors try to correct this problem in part by writing transition equations
for the alpha and the beta whose explanatory variables are market financial
variables.The alphas of hedge fund indices appear quite difficult to control, a
result in line with the market efficiency hypothesis. Besides, the betas are
much more controllable, their reaction to market variables being
significant.