{"title":"Debt Retirement at IPO and Firm Growth","authors":"Pengda Fan","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.3045158","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3045158","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This paper examines whether debt retirement at the time of initial public offering (IPO) can stimulate firm growth. Our findings demonstrate that highly leveraged firms tend to use the proceeds of IPOs to repay more existing debt. Then, increased debt capacity and reduced interest burden enable firms to expand their businesses. Firms that retire more debt also present better performance in the long-term. These results indicate that firms that have previously been labeled low-growth firms can achieve high growth in the post-IPO period by conducting debt retirement.","PeriodicalId":430498,"journal":{"name":"Australasian Finance & Banking Conferences","volume":"48 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-07-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126006340","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Selection of Directors to Corporate Boards","authors":"David J. Denis, Diane K. Denis, Mark D. Walker","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.3215474","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3215474","url":null,"abstract":"Corporate spinoffs present a unique opportunity to analyze the choice of directors from a pool of potential candidates. We find that post-spinoff unit and remaining parent firms are more likely to select pre-spinoff parent directors who have: i) relevant industry expertise; and ii) pre-spinoff parent board ties to the post-spinoff CEO. Using pre-spinoff firm performance as a proxy for director quality, the evidence also suggests that firms are more likely to retain high-quality directors. We conclude that firms select individual directors based on both their expertise relevant to firm assets and their ties to CEOs who possess specific information about their ability.","PeriodicalId":430498,"journal":{"name":"Australasian Finance & Banking Conferences","volume":"64 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127618557","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"An Empirical Study to Assess If Islamic Banks’ Assets Generate Less Revenue than its Conventional Counterpart","authors":"Md Nurul Islam Sohel, Dr. Md. Mizanur Rahman","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.3179400","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3179400","url":null,"abstract":"Islamic banks, being guided by the principles and rules of shariah, have some inherent limitations in selecting the operational sectors and securitized instruments for financing compared to their conventional counterparts. This study aims to bring to light whether Islamic banks, a growing subset of banking industry in Bangladesh, have further opportunities in generating revenue through deploying their resources. Six Bangladeshi Islamic banks and 12 of its conventional counterparts were purposively selected for this study. Five years (2011-2015) secondary data were used to assess the asset turnover ratio to compare the earning efficiency of Islamic banks with that of conventional ones. Results find that Islamic banks’ assets generate less revenue than its conventional counterparts. The results also find that Islamic banks have further scope of enhancing their income from some sources like, income from shares and securities and other operating income. The paper recommends some measures for the concerned stakeholders like, Islamic banks themselves, Government, and the Central Bank for introducing shariah compliant securitized instruments, level playing policy support, and technology based products and services which can help minimize the gap of income generation opportunities between Islamic and conventional banks.","PeriodicalId":430498,"journal":{"name":"Australasian Finance & Banking Conferences","volume":"49 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-05-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125432807","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Herd Behaviour & Investor Sentiment: Evidence from UK Mutual Funds","authors":"Yawen Hudson, Meilan Yan, Dalu Zhang","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.3222312","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3222312","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The aims of this paper are to detect evidence of institutional investor herding behaviour and examine the role that investor sentiment plays in institutional investor herding behaviour. The herding behaviour is investigated by examining the dispersion of time varying beta of UK open-end and closed-end funds. The study finds evidence of fund managers' herding behaviour, which suggests they are likely to herd on market portfolio, size, and value factors. UK market-wide investor sentiment index is used for investigating the effects of investor sentiment on institutional herding behaviour. We find a unidirectional investor sentiment effect on the herding of UK mutual fund managers. We also reveal that the sentiment factors affecting UK open-end and closed-end fund managers herding behaviour are different due to the differences in fund structure.","PeriodicalId":430498,"journal":{"name":"Australasian Finance & Banking Conferences","volume":"36 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122585941","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Cash-Settled Swaptions - A Review of Cash-Settled Swaption Pricing","authors":"N. Burgess","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.3107760","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3107760","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper we provide an outline of interest rate swaptions and how to price swaptions with different payoff or settlement types. Firstly we review the different settlement styles commonplace in financial markets. Secondly we review the swaption pricing formulae corresponding to each settlement type and review pricing considerations associated with each payoff. \u0000Thirdly we review the pricing of swaptions with different choices of settlement style. We outline swaption par-yield pricing considerations and review the cash-annuity factor. We note that par-yield cash-settlement is not arbitrage-free, yet despite this par-yield settlement is a standard swaption payoff in European markets. \u0000We emphasize par-yield settlement, since his method can be provide significant benefits and yet be quite opaque and often misunderstood. Par-yield settlement provides a simplified representation of the cash payoff of a swap, which is convenient for swaption payoff standardization, trade netting and the exchange clearing of swaptions. Trade netting can significantly reduce counterparty credit risk, associated XVA and capital charges, which can be substantial. \u0000Finally we review how to extend the par-yield and cash-annuity definitions to allow the pricing of swaptions with stubs and irregular coupons.","PeriodicalId":430498,"journal":{"name":"Australasian Finance & Banking Conferences","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-02-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126806396","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Optimal Number of Active Managers","authors":"Sameer Jain, M. Shahi","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.3118365","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3118365","url":null,"abstract":"This article explores if investors in a platform of active investments be required to diversify - with minimum requirements on the number of managers to be employed when constructing portfolios?","PeriodicalId":430498,"journal":{"name":"Australasian Finance & Banking Conferences","volume":"414 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-02-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115855272","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Luis Goncalves-Pinto, Juan M. Sotes-Paladino, Jing Xu
{"title":"The Invisible Hand of Internal Markets in Mutual Fund Families","authors":"Luis Goncalves-Pinto, Juan M. Sotes-Paladino, Jing Xu","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.1567267","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1567267","url":null,"abstract":"The internal markets of fund families can encourage member funds to deviate excessively from their investment mandates. Theoretically, we show that fund managers following sufficiently different style benchmarks can engage in risk-shifting by trading with one another at low cost inside their family. This benefits the managers and the family even in the absence of a family-level strategy. However, the excessive risks taken by the managers can be costly to fund investors. Empirically, we find support for the positive effect of intra-family style diversity on offsetting trades across funds and on deviations of funds’ portfolios from their benchmarks.","PeriodicalId":430498,"journal":{"name":"Australasian Finance & Banking Conferences","volume":"36 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-01-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116849686","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Corporate Governance and the Insolvency Risk of Financial Institutions","authors":"Searat Ali, J. Iqbal","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.2826456","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2826456","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract We investigate whether shareholder-friendliness of corporate governance mechanisms is related to insolvency risk of financial institutions. Using a large sample of U.S. financial institutions over the period 2005–2010, we find that corporate governance is positively related with insolvency risk of financial institutions as proxied by Merton’s distance to default measure and credit default swap (CDS) spread. We also find that “stronger” corporate governance increases insolvency risk relatively more for larger financial institutions and during the period of the financial crisis. Overall, our results suggest that shareholder-friendliness of corporate governance mechanisms are viewed unfavorably in the bond market.","PeriodicalId":430498,"journal":{"name":"Australasian Finance & Banking Conferences","volume":"103 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-01-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128252669","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Does Probability Weighting Drive Skewness Preferences?","authors":"Benjamin M. Blau, Jared DeLisle, Ryan J. Whitby","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.3002742","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3002742","url":null,"abstract":"We propose a test of Barberis and Huang’s (2008) theory of skewness preferences. The probability weighting feature that is the basis of their theory relies on investors overweighting the probability of tail events. The resulting investor preferences for positive skewness in return distributions will lead to excess demand, contemporaneous price premiums, and negative expected returns. We use the well-documented 52-week high bias as a method to truncate the probability of expected right-tail events. We find evidence supporting the Barberis and Huang theory as the negative return premia associated with positive skewness are driven almost entirely by stocks that are farther away from the their 52-week high .","PeriodicalId":430498,"journal":{"name":"Australasian Finance & Banking Conferences","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131189481","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Bio Informatics in Private Universities in India: An Emerging Study on Promotion of Biological Information Sciences","authors":"P. Paul, Sreeramana Aithal","doi":"10.5958/2321-7111.2017.00010.5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5958/2321-7111.2017.00010.5","url":null,"abstract":"Information Science is an interdisciplinary domain and plays a great role in the development at large. Information Science and Informatics normally treated as a synonym in academia worldwide. Information Science/Informatics is an applied science branch and thus with the combination of other areas and subject created many other knowledge cluster and field viz. Geo Information Science, Chemo Information Sciences, Environmental Information Science. Bio Information Sciences may be considered as a field of intersection of Biology and Information Science. Bio Informatics may be treated as one of the areas of Bio Information Sciences. Indian universities moving towards education, training, and research in interdisciplinary fields and as a result Bio related Informatics become vital. Higher Educational Institution’s number wise India also holds a rank in the world. In recent past private universities expanded rapidly. Many of them started offering Bio Informatics program in different level of study. This is a theoretical framework in terms of research paper and here several knowledge on information sciences, informatics with reference to Bio Informatics have been provided. The paper also highlighted emerging other allied areas including future potentialities in brief.","PeriodicalId":430498,"journal":{"name":"Australasian Finance & Banking Conferences","volume":"49 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-12-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126855971","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}