Academic books suggest that there is a correlation between risk and return. In this study companies listed on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange were reviewed over a ten year period. Risk measures (standard deviation and beta) were calculated over the first five years for each company. The...

The return and various attributes from the McGreggor database were used to estimate the return that will be achieved by different companies in the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE). None of the attributes were significantly correlated to the return. The Pearl algorithm in Bayesian belief...

Research into management interventions that create the required enabling environment for growth and development in South Africa are both timely and appropriate. In the research reported in this paper, the authors investigated the level of efficiency of the Air Quality Units within the three...

In turbulent and volatile markets options can be a preferred asset class for protection against adverse market movements. When volatility increases and markets become sparsely traded, it is not always effective to hedge adverse market movements using any option. Options, where the underlying is...

The financial crises emanating from bank run, bad debt, asset-liability mismatch, excessive leverage, sovereign default that result in bank failure have not been solved. In order to solve these problems, banks adopted several models even though each banking business model was a catalyst for...

In an era where almost business are based of service, internet and information technology the intangible assets gain more and more importance because they are drivers of growth, innovation and profitability both for knowledge based organization and for the other organizations. This paper...

The study is aimed at assessing the market reaction to the announcement of the appointment of CEOs of companies listed on the Johannesburg Securities Exchange (JSE). To achieve this objective an event study was conducted. The dataset consist of 43 firms who satisfied the inclusion criteria, who...

This paper sought to test the effect of investor loan funding, credit risk and liquidity crunch, on AIRCABS sustainability and profitability. The result found that AIRCABS was not affected by credit risk and liquidity crunch and the increase of investor loan funding increased AIRCABS...

The valuation of equity is a central topic in finance and accounting from many fronts. However, equity valuation is still subjective as different analysts obtain target prices that are not similar despite using the same publicly available information. Growth has a substantial influence on the...

The purpose of this study was to investigate whether there are any significant abnormal returns around the public announcement of earnings and to establish whether the efficient capital market hypothesis applies to the small ALT-X market. The population of interest was all the companies that...