Managers often try to forecast dividends because as Brown et al . (2002) suggest, dividends have cash flow implications for investors and are important signalling devices. This study analyses the dividend forecasts in the prospectuses of initial public offerings (IPOs) in Australia over the...

This paper analyses the board composition of Australian initial public offerings (IPOs) over the period 1994 to 1997. The recent management literature identifies a wide range of stakeholders beyond the traditional shareholders. Evan and Freeman, and Jones and Goldberg suggest that the importance...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to investigate the accuracy of Australian Real Estate Investment Trust (A-REIT) initial public offering (IPO) dividend forecasts between 1994 and 2016. Design/methodology/approach: This study compares the dividend forecasts of A-REIT IPOs for the first...

Purpose – This is the first REIT paper to seek to empirically examine potential influencing factors on the discounts and underwriting fees of Australian REIT rights issues. Design/methodology/approach – Using a methodology similar to Owen and Suchard, and Armitage, a sample of 62 A‐REIT...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to use Australian Real Estate Investment Trust (A‐REIT) data to empirically examine potential influencing factors on A‐REITs becoming a bidder or a target in the mergers and acquisitions (M&A) area. Design/methodology/approach – This study uses...