In the context of international funds, investigations have been made of a range of performance models including both domestic and international market index benchmarks and distinguishing selectivity and timing performance. A sample of Australian international equity trusts are examined over the...

Although many studies have found a non-trivial incidence of beta instability for individual common stocks, there exists controversy over the beta stability characteristics to expect in portfolios formed from these stocks. The extent is examined to which portfolio formation can diversify away...

In this article, we provide an insight into Asia-Pacific banks' market, interest rate and exchange rate exposures using a market-based model, pre and post the Asian financial crisis. Our study provides a unique comparative analysis across 10 countries, for both short-horizon and long-horizon...

In this article we develop a 'behavioural' Intertemporal Capital Asset Pricing Model (ICAPM) in which the behavioural impetus comes from the feedback trading implications for the autocorrelation of returns. We apply the model in a setting of paired equity and bond investments, employing a...

There are two competing views regarding the potential effect of survivorship bias on the assessed persistence in performance of managed fund returns. On the one hand Brown et al. (Review of Financial Studies, 5, 1992) argue that spurious persistence will be induced, while alternatively Grinblatt...

The finance literature is replete with studies using the market model (MM) and the quadratic market model (QMM) as the return generating model. An alternative model, using the quadratic market model framework, was adopted by Barone-Adesi (1985) to test a two factor APT model related to the Three...

Focussing on earnings-related rather than different classes of corporate announcements as in Chae (2005), we examine trading volume behaviour and the role played by informed and uninformed investors around routine and nonroutine announcements. Prior to preliminary final earnings announcements,...

The focus of this article is an investigation of the relationship between the use of financial derivatives and firm risk using a sample of Australian firms. Our results suggest that this relationship is nonlinear in nature. Specifically, the use of financial derivatives is associated with a risk...

This article focuses on the performance of Australian hedge funds. Using a survivorship bias free sample, we investigate whether Australian hedge fund managers have the ability to outguess the market. Specifically, we test the market timing and volatility timing skills of fund managers. Our...

The current study contributes to the empirical literature aimed at testing the Fama and French three-factor model, using daily Australian data. In general, the evidence found is quite favourable to the model based on formal asset pricing tests. However, when the estimated risk premia are taken...