Inherent socioeconomic characteristics and personality traits can directly affect an individual's financial satisfaction. There is limited research on the role of financial behavior as a mediating variable for the influence of these two factors on financial satisfaction. It is important to know...

The paper aims to examine the significant relationship amongst institutional stockholdings and firms' performance as measured by ROA, ROE, PE, EPS and capital structure as measured by long term debt to capital ratio of companies listed on the Main Board of Bursa Malaysia. The results show that...

The growing importance of board diversity among directors has been established as a result of global financial crisis in 2008. According to the Malaysian Code of Corporate Governance 2012, nominating committee shall be responsible to select directors with diverse background that meet the needs...

The growing need for construction of all types coupled with a tight monetary supply has provided the construction industry with a big challenge to cut cost. According to Mendelson and Greenfield (1996) the remaining part of the twentieth century would involve corporations, institutions and...

Objective – The purpose of this study is to construct a business failure classification model that may be reliably applied to companies in the manufacturing sector. The model will be used to improve the predictive abilities for companies with different financial, business and operating...

Objective – The purpose of this paper is to observe the volatile movement of the US dollar (‘USD') and its impact on the Malaysian stock market.Methodology/Technique – This study would look at how the USD had progressed and how it delivers a significant effect on the Malaysian stock...

Objectives – This research seeks to identify the relationship between dividend policy and share price volatility.Methodology/Technique – This study uses both regression and correlation analysis, with price volatility, dividend yield, and dividend pay-out ratio as control factors. The study...

Objective – The growing need for construction of all types coupled with a tight monetary supply has provided the construction industry with a big challenge to cut cost. According to Mendelson and Greenfield (1996) the remaining part of the twentieth century would involve corporations,...

The role of the nomination committee (NC) in the selection of members of various ethnic groups for board membership has increased significantly as a result of the global financial crisis of 2008. A company board that comprises directors who come from all the three major ethnic groups (Malay,...

Objective - Islamic Banks have a distinct advantage that is not only conduct a commercial operation, but to also conduct social operations. Therefore, Islamic Banks plays an important role in developing the Indonesian economy. The aim of this study is to investigate the impact of internal and...