Standard Fama-French-Carhart models are widely used by academics to assess risk-adjusted fund performance versus market, size, style and momentum factors. However, it fails to reflect the industry standard, following which the performance of money managers is commonly evaluated relative to a...

Standard Fama-French-Carhart models define ‘winners’ as funds that generate the highest excess returns given the factor risks involved; however, they do not provide information on whether such winners are outperforming their prospectus benchmark or their peer group. In addition, existing...

We provide one of the first large sample studies to examine how firm-level characteristics and national-level institutions affect cash balances in privately held and publicly traded firms and investigate whether the determinants of cash holdings for both types of firms are similar. Using panel...

Purpose This paper aims to analyse the causes and impact of the significant mean price discounts (25 per cent for financial and 29 per cent for non-financial firms) in rights issues in the UK using a sample of 268 observations for the period of 1994 to 2012. It is observed that for non-financial...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the role of volatility risk on stock return predictability specified on two global financial crises: the dot-com bubble and recent financial crisis. Design/methodology/approach Using a broad sample of stock options traded on the American Stock...