Consumers across Asia are becoming wealthier, older, and more sophisticated in their behaviors and attitudes towards financial services. Rising affluence and high net worth across Asia. The population of affluent and high net worth individuals is grwoing rapidly across Asia...

We use a unique dataset of bond downgrades from a niche rating company that has been found to be reacting faster to publicly available information than its competitors. Using regime-switching models we propose risk measures to quantify stock return disturbances (distress costs) associated with...