The purpose of this study is to examine the volatility-timing performance of Singapore-based funds under the Central …-CPF funds by examining the volatility-timing performance associated with these funds. The volatility-timing ability of CPF funds … to capture the response of funds to market abnormal conditional volatility including the weekday effect. The SMB and HML …

-variate GARCH-in-mean model and volatility spillovers. The empirical results show the significant effects (positive and negative …, respectively) of the stock market returns, interest rate, and exchange rate volatility of the financial sector during the crisis …. Besides, we find, in most cases, significant (positive and negative, respectively) volatility spillovers from market return …

We find a robust negative effect of exchange rate volatility on S&P500 company returns. The Consumer Discretionary and … the Consumer Staple sectors have more significant negative exposure to exchange rate volatility than the other sectors … thus supporting the hypothesis that exchange rate volatility affects stock returns through the channel of international …