The performance measurement of portfolio managers is a topic of major importance in finance. The utility of performance measures rests, indeed, on the hypothesis that funds whose performance is judged good (or bad ) in the past, will continue to display of good (bad) performances in the future....

This paper has investigated the stock market trends in Mauritius, from a risk perspective. The analysis was based on the widely accepted Value-At-Risk (VAR) methodology. Amongst the key findings of this review, it is essentially noted that the index which portrays the return for blue chip...

The main aim of this paper is to analyze if pension funds managers are able to implement style timing strategies, one topic very important for an efficient management of an investment portfolio. Besides it is analyzed the stock-picking abilities of these managers. To this end, conditional and...

An open question in market microstructure is whether 'informed' traders have an advantage due to access to private, inside, information; or due to a superior ability to process public information. In this paper we attempt to answer this question with data from a sports betting exchange taken...

Several recent papers present models to explain the probability and timing of seasoned equity offerings. Using a unique database of Australian new economy companies, we find no single model is adequate. The variables that are important in determining the probability of an SEO provide only...

We consider the pricing of derivatives written on the discretely sampled realized variance of an underlying security. In the literature, the realized variance is usually approximated by its continuous-time limit, the quadratic variation of the underlying log-price. Here, we characterize the...

With competition heating up for cash inflows globally, it has become imperative to have a liberalized market for more efficient allocation of capital. The strengthening indication of the domestic financial market implies that the domestic markets have opened up for competition and efficiency.For...

The purpose of this paper is to study the closed-end fund discount in Miller's (1977) framework. Miller's theory states that in the simultaneous presence of (1) short sale restrictions and (2) dispersion of investors' opinions, securities become overvalued. We show that discounts of...

This paper compares a trending approach to the filter trading rule against a contrarian approach. It is found that, after adjusting for transaction costs, the contrarian approach consistently outperforms the trending approach, and is able to earn returns in excess of the buy-and-hold trading...

We present a mixed-frequency model for daily forecasts of euro area inflation. The model combines a monthly index of core inflation with daily data from financial markets; estimates are carried out with the MIDAS regression approach. The forecasting ability of the model in real-time is compared...