Stability, Asymmetry and Seasonality of Fund Performance: An Analysis of Australian Multi‐sector Managed Funds

Using a sample of Australian Multi-sector trusts we examine selectivity and market timing performance and extend the analysis to include the relatively new measure of volatility timing. This is of particular relevance to our data set, as high levels of volatility persistence are prevalent in Australia. In addition we consider the stability, asymmetry and seasonality of the various performance and risk measures. A survivorship adjustment procedure is also employed in order to assess the impact of survivorship on selectivity, market timing and volatility timing performance.     

The Information Content of Nonfinancial Performance Measures in the Airline Industry

This research extends the literature on nonfinancial performance measures (NFPMs) by assessing (1) the information content of a broader set of NFPMs and (2) whether NFPMs provide information not provided by financial performance measures (FPMs) from all previously identified FPM categories, rather than just earnings and book value. Specifically, exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis results presented in this paper demonstrate that nineteen NFPMs of major airlines capture seven underlying constructs not captured by eighteen common FPMs. Additionally, this research develops reliable composite measures of the identified performance measure constructs, which prior research argues are superior to individual performance measures.     

Effet des Evolutions Techniques et des Changements de la Spécialisation Internationale sur les Marchés du Travail et les Systèmes Productifs: Comment les Statisticiens Pourraient-ils Relever les Défis?

Thinking about future needs and about what can reasonably be expected as feasible in the next century, how should producers of statistics direct their activity? Increasing complexity and diversity of needs leads us to recognize that, between producers and users of statistics, a mediating role is more and more often played by analysts and research workers who are requesting above all good data bases. Concerning infrastructures for statistics on productive systems, coordination between accountants and statisticians will be crucial, as well as adaptation of the constraints which, because of excessive worry about confidentiality, could prevent establishment or use of data bases. In an increasingly competitive world, where private firms will sell analyses and informations, particularly on very large enterprises, the public statistical service will remain essential in all respects. Intangible investments, innovations and many aspects of the internal organization of firms will create formidable challenges. Information on employment and labour markets has been much developed during the past decades; but on a few specific and difficult issues progress is still needed: lifecyles in the working-age population, acquisition of knowledge and skills in formal education and on the job, matching labour supplies and demands, and so on. Particular attention will have to be given to the lower levels of cultural and professional skills.     

Long-Term Performance Following Rights Issues and Open Offers in the UK

Abstract:  This study finds evidence of significant long-term underperformance following rights issues made during 1986-95 in the UK. The findings are resilient to a number of methodological controls. In contrast, our results for a smaller sample of open offers made during 1991-95 show strong positive performance over a 5-year post-issue period, implying that firms making open offers had better growth prospects than firms making rights issues. During 1986-90, a period when open offers were rarely used, firms appeared to be making rights issues to exploit overvaluation. However, this was not evident for rights issues made during 1991-95, a period when open offers were more commonly used.     

Glamour and Value Strategies on the Tokyo Stock Exchange

This paper evaluates the performance of glamour and value strategies and tests the extrapolation model for the Japanese equity market. In general, value stocks outperform glamour stocks by between 6 and 12 percent per annum for the five years after portfolio formation. Evidence from past, future and expected growth provides strong support for the story developed in Lakonishok, Shleifer and Vishny (1994). It is difficult to attribute the value premia to the difference, if any, in risk factors. In addition, the book-to-market premium is much closer to an arbitrage opportunity than the size premium.     

Consistency of UK Pension Fund Investment Performance

Transition matrix techniques are used to relate the past and present performance of pension fund portfolios. In particular, funds are ranked to study the tendency of portfolios to remain in the same quartile of the ranking as they were in the previous period. For raw returns, funds in both of the top quartiles are found to be more likely to remain in the same quartile than would be expected by chance. This result can be taken as limited evidence for the consistency of performance. Similar systemic effects are observed on a risk-adjusted basis. There appears to be clear evidence that some fund managers can offer a degree of consistent good performance.     

企业数字化转型能否提高创新绩效？来自上市公司的经验证据

随着信息技术的快速发展,企业数字化转型已成为推动创新与竞争力提升的关键。该研究基于2007-2022 年中国上市公司的大规模数据样本,采用最小二乘法线性回归和中介效应模型等统计方法,探讨了企业数字化与创新绩效之间的关系,以期揭示数字化背景下企业如何通过技术应用与管理创新提升创新能力,为企业数字化转型实践提供理论指导和决策参考。研究发现,数字化转型显著提升了企业的运营创新绩效和市场创新绩效,其中不仅直接影响显著,还通过管理赋能、投资赋能、营运赋能和劳动赋能等多重内在机制间接促进了创新绩效的提升。该研究发现不仅为理论研究提供了新的视角,同时也为实践中企业数字化战略的制定提供了有力的策略建议。     

首旅酒店EVA业绩评价研究

EVA业绩评价法立足于为股东创造更多财富的经营目标,有助于企业更加客观地判断经营现状和调整经营策略,近年来被越来越多的企业选择采用.本文以首旅酒店为例,探讨EVA模型在旅游业中的具体应用,分析EVA模型相较于传统的业绩评价指标的优点,并提出具体的实施建议.     

在地理教学中开展学生思想道德教育的可行性及途径探析

现行所有的地理教材都非常注重对相关自然地理及人文事物形成过程和规律进行细致的分析,这为给学生进行日常的思想道德教育提供了非常好的素材,本文就是在分析了在地理教学中开展学生思想道德教育的可行性后提出了多项有效的教育途径。     

试谈农村初级中学图书馆的读者服务工作

本文针对农村初级中学图书馆读者服务工作的现状,试着从图书、读者及图书馆工作人员三个方面提出一些解决方法。