Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to assess whether internal audit role and reporting relationships affect investor perceptions of disclosure credibility. Design/methodology/approach – The experiment involved a 2 × 2 design with internal audit role and reporting relationship randomly...

Purpose–The purpose of this paper is to theoretically and empirically explore the effects of attention levels on individual investors' investment return. Design/methodology/approach–By introducing the heterogeneous attention, the authors first expand the theoretical model of Barber and...

Purpose – The purpose of paper is to show how the changing property investment landscape in the past 40 years – for example the new requirements of valuation accuracy, rationality and the risk analysis, etc. – requires a corresponding response from property valuers (academia, professionals...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to assess the financial literacy of the UAE individual investors who invest in the local financial markets. In addition, it examines the relationship between financial literacy and the influence of the factors that affect the investment decision....

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to theoretically and empirically explore the effects of attention levels on individual investors' investment return. Design/methodology/approach – By introducing the heterogeneous attention, the authors first expand the theoretical model of Barber and...

Hedge funds increasingly are becoming a focus of investors and U.S. regulatory agencies including the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”), the U.S. Treasury Department, the National Association of Securities Dealers, and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission as enhanced...

The USA Patriot Act, Sarbanes‐Oxley, proxy voting disclosure, privacy regulations under Gramm‐Leach‐Bliley, fair valuation, hedge fund scrutiny, and the list goes on and on. Over the past two years, we have seen the Securities and Exchange Commission launch the most aggressive and...

In late January 2003, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) adopted new rules for investment advisers under the Investment Advisers Act of 1940 (Advisers Act) requiring them to adopt and disclose to clients proxy voting policies and procedures. Concurrently, the SEC adopted new rules for...