This article analyses the trading activity of Taiwanese open-end equity mutual fund herding behaviour over the period of 1996--2008. We found evidence of both directional and directionless herding. We also found that sell-side fund herding leads to price stabilization, whereas buy-side herding...

This study performs an out-of-sample test on momentum effects in nine Asian-Pacific stock markets from 1990 to 2002. We find little evidence on the existence of intermediate stocks return momentum. Specifically, the unrestricted momentum trading strategies appear profitable only in major...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the role of earnings forecast revisions by equity analysts in predicting Canadian stock returns Design/methodology/approach The sample covers 420 Canadian firms over the period 1998-2009. It analyses investors’ reactions to 27,271 upward...

This paper examines the impact of governance and ownership variables on agency costs for a panel of large UK quoted companies. We use three measures of agency costs: the ratio of sales-to-total assets, the interaction of free cash flows and growth prospects and the number of acquisitions. We...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate whether mutual fund investors can make effective cash flow timing decisions and examine the sensitivity of these decisions to past fund performance using cash flow data at the individual fund level. Design/methodology/approach – This...