Effective risk management requires discernment of volatility interaction patterns across assets. Our study examines the level of interconnectedness amongst nine major commodity futures across precious metals, energy, industrial and agricultural sectors and the US S&P 500 index from 1990 to 2022....

Purpose – Using a very large sample of psychometrically derived risk profiles of adult Australians, the paper aims to explore the linkage between financial risk tolerance and gender. Design/methodology/approach – The key proxy of risk tolerance score (RTS) derives from a 25 question survey...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the impact of female board membership on the profitability of corporate insider purchases. Design/methodology/approach – The authors use a classic event study approach. They measure abnormal returns around the insider purchase events, and...

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-signaling perspective, affording an analysis of the key interrelations between quality, underwriting status, renounceability,...

This article focuses on the performance of Australian hedge funds. Using a survivorship bias free sample, we investigate whether Australian hedge fund managers have the ability to outguess the market. Specifically, we test the market timing and volatility timing skills of fund managers. Our...

The current study contributes to the empirical literature aimed at testing the Fama and French three-factor model, using daily Australian data. In general, the evidence found is quite favourable to the model based on formal asset pricing tests. However, when the estimated risk premia are taken...

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the sensitivity of Australian stock returns to US market returns, via an international market model. Our study investigates the relative sensitivity to (1) the US return denominated in Australian dollars and (2) the US market return decomposed into its...