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june2009 Wrote:
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> i thought excess positive kurtosis for HFs.

By "excess positive kurtosis" do you mean positive skewness or fat tails? I'm guessing that you meant positive skewness. I would think that hedge funds exhibit fat tails but not positive skewness. Their mean may be higher than other alternative investments, but a higher mean doesn't imply positive skewness.