Does investing in sustainability leaders affect portfolio performance? Analyzing two mutually exclusive leading and lagging global corporate sustainability portfolios (Dow Jones) finds (a) leading sustainability firms do not underperform the market portfolio and (b) their lagging counterparts...

We investigate agency variation in credit quality assessment (Standard and Poor's vs. Moody's vs. Fitch) employing sovereign ratings data for 129 countries, spanning the period 1990 to 2006. While we find that the credit rating agencies often disagree about credit quality, it is usually confined...

Rights offerings in Australia provide valuable choices to the issuer in terms of both underwriting and renounceability. We formulate a set of hypotheses from a quality-signalling perspective, affording an analysis of the key interrelations between quality, underwriting status, renounceability,...

We examine the impact of several factors on the selection of portfolio managers for Australian pension plan mandates. Performance measures do not affect the probability of a mandate allocation. Pension sponsors tend to choose managers with top-quartile five-year performance who have recently...

In this paper, we investigative the impact of the introduction of the Euro on exchange rate exposures and the subsequent hedging practices of a sample of French corporations. Our findings indicate that the introduction of the Euro led to both a reduction in the number of firms that have...

This article uses a survey of Australian corporate treasurers to shed light on the gap between the theory and practice of corporate finance in Australia. Seven areas are examined: capital structure, payout policy, cash holdings, initial public offerings, seasoned equity offering, mergers and...

We investigate the impact of bank capital, market discipline and charter value as bank disciplinary tools on both bank equity risk (systematic risk, total risk, and idiosyncratic risk) and default risk/credit risk. We analyse 218 listed banks across 15 Asia-Pacific countries, and find that bank...