In recent years there has been a tremendous growth in the influx of news related to traded assets in international financial markets. This financial news is now available via print media but also through real-time online sources such as internet news and social media sources. The increase in the...

In recent years there has been a tremendous growth in the influx of news related to traded assets in international financial markets. This financial news is now available via print media but also through real-time online sources such as internet news and social media sources. The increase in the...

This study features an analysis of takeover effects on the Thai stock market and focuses on the impact on bidding firms. The study is motivated by the paucity of studies of Thai bidding firms as well as the lack of information about their long-term performance. The measures used for abnormal...

With the growing number of stocks and other financial instruments in the investment market, there is always a need for profitable methods of asset selection. The Fama-French three factor model, makes the problem of asset selection easy, by narrowing down the number of parameters, but the usual...

In this paper we canvass the use of a duration measure based on approximate duration which has the advantage of not being sensitive to non-parallel shifts in the term structure in the same manner as the Macaulay duration. The paper compares the performance of bond immunization strategies based...

Macaulay duration matched strategy is a key tool in bond portfolio immunization. It is well known that if term structures are not flat or changes are not parallel, then Macaulay duration matched portfolio can not guarantee adequate immunization. In this paper the approximate duration is proposed...

This study investigates the alleged disintermediation of banks' traditional deposit-taking in favour of investment management activities. Using data on Australian bank-affiliated funds and a nine-year record of the parent banks' liability balances, this study finds that managed funds do not...

This paper examines mutual fund investors' response to mergers of Australian mutual fund companies. Findings from two matching-control techniques employed to analyse the impact of mergers on excess money in and out of open and closed funds involved in the transactions suggest that mergers are...