The purpose of this paper is to determine the best way to hedge currency risk using futures contracts. Various techniques of hedging currency risk are compared, and a new method is proposed. This paper also documents the duration and the expiration effects on the optimal hedge ratio. The main...

While Luoma and Goodstein (1999) find increased stakeholder representation on the boards of American companies, Dimovski and Brooks (2004) provide evidence that the Australian initial public offering (IPO) market does not require non equity stakeholder representation on their boards. This paper...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to empirically analyse the change in the gender composition of the boards of large Australian companies, after listing. Design/methodology/approach – This study investigates the gender composition of the boards of large Australian companies at the time...