Modern Portfolio Theory associates the stock market risk with the volatility of return. Volatility is measured by the variance of the returns' distribution. However, the investment community does not accept this measure, since it weights equally deviations of the average returns, whereas most...

Purpose – To investigate the Central and Eastern European (CEE) equity market co‐movements before, during and after major emerging market crises. To examine the impact of the crisis on the gains of international portfolio diversification in CEE. Design/methodology/approach – The study is...

We propose a model, which is a modification of the Salomon Smith Barney model for cost of capital determination. The model reflects the following characteristics: (1) the degree of diversification of the particular investor (imperfectly diversified); (2) the systematic country risk; (3) firm...

Purpose – The International Valuations Standards Committee adopts the Capital Asset Pricing Model as a method for estimation of the cost of equity. It has several drawbacks and appraisers in emerging markets need more useful model for cost of equity estimation. The paper aims to discuss these...

This paper is concentrated on those factors which have significant influence over stock returns on five South East Asia markets. Quantifying these factors and accounting for their influence leads to the specific stock return which we call “pure return”. This process is called return...

Since the first appearance of the fundamental law of active management, researchers have proposed several directions for its improvement. One important area is in active risk. As the authors explain, instead of using unconditional active risk as a risk estimator, a new source of active risk,...