We examine the efficacy of exchange queries in assisting to explain anomalous trading behaviour in a timely manner. Most equity markets rely on continuous disclosure rules to motivate corporations to immediately disclose sensitive information that can affect trading. Queries allow exchanges to...

We provide the first empirical investigation into the impact of Internet Stock Message Board takeover rumors on the price discovery process in the United States equity market. Our investigation involves using an innovative five-stage filtering process, that employs computational linguistics...

While the fundamental and technical analysis literatures invest considerable effort in assessing their respective ability to explain share prices, they invariably do so without reference to each other. In this context, we propose an equity valuation model integrating both fundamental and...

It is generally accepted within the extant literature that a size effect exists, whereby smaller firms tend to experience higher rates of return than those of large firms. This small size effect is identified in a number of studies over a variety of equity markets. Despite this, however, no...

This study presents the first empirical evidence on the existence of the asset growth effect in the Australian equity market. Specifically, we analyse all Australian listed firms over the period from 1998 to 2008, inclusive, to investigate whether the rate of growth in total assets has...

This study presents the first empirical evidence on the existence of the asset growth effect in the Australian equity market. Specifically, we analyse all Australian listed firms over the period from 1998 to 2008, inclusive, to investigate whether the rate of growth in total assets has...

A theoretical model proposed by Cornelli and Li (2002) suggests that informed traders transact in shares of the target firm following the announcement of a takeover. In such cases, takeover traders are incentivised to become large shareholders in the target and, in doing so, influence the...

Effective incorporation of socially responsible investing (SRI) into student-managed investment fund (SMIF) programs is discussed in the context of a case study. The experience of the example SMIF suggests some techniques to enhance the learning experience. These include: students developing...

We distinguish luck from skill in fund portfolios of differing activeness by applying bootstrap simulations. Bootstrapping is important as heterogeneous risk taking according to the activeness of a fund's strategies can bias standard significance tests, causing non-normalities in the...

Active opportunity in the market, measured by cross-sectional dispersion in stock returns, significantly influences fund performance. Active strategies have the greatest impact on returns during periods of high dispersion, when alpha produced by the most active funds significantly exceeds that...