Australian companies can choose among three different types of rights offerings: full standby (also known as "fully underwritten"); uninsured (or "non-underwritten"); and partial standby ("partly underwritten"). At the same time, each of these three kinds of rights offerings can be either...

Australian companies pay dividends semi-annually with smaller “interim” payments and larger “final” payments. Interim dividends are declared and paid within a less full information environment than final dividends. We analyze the interactions between the timing of dividends and their...

We examine the role of shareholder takeup in rights offerings on the subscription period price reaction and liquidity. Our results indicate that takeup information is reflected in price adjustments over the subscription period and that quality-related information disclosed on the rights...

Rights offerings in Australia provide valuable choices to the issuer in terms of both underwriting and renounceability. We formulate a set of hypotheses from a quality-signaling perspective, affording an analysis of the key interrelations between quality, underwriting status, renounceability,...

Dynamic futures‐hedging ratios are estimated across seven markets using generalized models of the variance/covariance structure. The hedging performances of the resultant dynamic strategies are then compared with static and naïve strategies, both in‐ and out‐of‐sample....

This paper attempts to review briefly the current position of capital asset pricing theory and testing, and to consider the implications for portfolio managers. Inevitably in a paper of this length, it is not possible to include all the material that is relevant in such a large and important...