Can Australian equity returns be modelled by 'home-grown' factors? We examine the indigenous capital asset pricing model, the indigenous Fama-French three-factor model, and extensions to the latter, and find them all wanting. We find evidence of domestic market segmentation in Australia. For the...

Durand "et al." (2006a) argue that the Australian market is both internationally integrated and domestically segmented. They find that the US-based three-factor model captures returns of the largest stocks in Australia (evidence of international integration), but that it is unable to account for...

Tests of asset-pricing models typically form portfolios of stocks (based on criteria such as market capitalization and book-to-market values). The validity of this approach has been debated (see, for example, Berk, 2000). We consider a simple method of testing asset-pricing models using the...