Cash and futures prices should reach equality, or converge, upon contract maturity. Traders can impose convergence during the delivery month througharbitrage behavior: either making or taking delivery on futures contracts. If convergence is not predictable, a futures market fails to provide a...

Identifying a suitable benchmark is essential when testing asset pricing models, measuring the performance of active investors, or providing market proxy portfolios for passive investors. Concern that increased domination of capitalization weighted stock indices by a few large firms will lead to...

Asymmetric dependence (AD) is defined as dependence that differs across opposing regions of the joint return distribution. Recent evidence of AD between equity returns suggests that dependence can be decomposed into a linear component, captured by the correlation matrix, and a higher order...

Full-text of this article is not available in this e-prints service. This article was originally published following peer-review in International Journal of Retail & Distribution Management, published by and copyright Emerald.

Collective investments have become a very popular investment vehicle in South Africa because it is, among other things, transparent, liquid and easily accessible. Growing investor knowledge, good market returns and its suitability for diversification, which minimizes risk, also contributes to...

Die auf Markowitz (1952) zurückgehende Portfoliotheorie ist ohne jeden Zweifel ein bedeutender Themenbereich der modernen finanzwirtschaftlichen Forschung. Zentral beschäftigt sich dieser Bereich mit der Frage, wie ein Anleger sein Vermögen auf unterschiedliche Anlagewerte verteilen soll. Als...

Electricity generation is a vital element of economic growth, and it is necessary to encourage a growth model that does not endanger the capacity of a country to generate electricity. Generating electricity entails costs. This cost is not only economical but can also be, for example,...