Discussion of 'Financial Reporting Opacity and Informed Trading by International Institutional Investors'

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brian J. Bushee

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cory A. Cassell ◽  
Tyler Kleppe ◽  
Andrew T. Pierce ◽  
Margaret Warren


Company Law ◽  
2019 ◽  
pp. 339-374
Author(s):  
Lee Roach

This chapter examines the role and importance of general meetings, the significant body of procedural rules by which general meetings are run, and the extent to which a company's members actually engage with general meetings. Members make decisions in one of two ways: through a resolution or by unanimous assent. A resolution is simply a vote that requires a specified majority vote in its favour in order to be passed. The resolutions of public companies must be passed at meetings, whereas resolutions of private companies can be passed at meetings or via a written resolution. Two forms of general meeting existed: the annual general meeting and extraordinary general meetings. In some cases, however, companies are required to hold a class meeting in which only one class of member is entitled to attend. To encourage institutional investors to engage more, the Financial Reporting Council (FRC) has published the UK Stewardship Code.



2017 ◽  
Vol 9 (9) ◽  
pp. 123 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yen-Hsien Lee ◽  
Wen-Chien Liu ◽  
Chia-Lin Hsieh

This paper examines the impact of informed trading on futures returns during the 2008-2009 financial crisis. To precisely capture the informed trading in the highly volatile market during this period, we adopt the Volume-Synchronized Probability of Informed Trading (VPIN) of Easley, Hvidkjaer and O’Hara (2012) as our main measurement for informed trading. Besides, we also use a unique transaction dataset with investor identity to classify investors into domestic and foreign institutional investors, which the foreign institutional investors are supposed to be characterized by a higher degree of informed trading. Our empirical results show that the VPIN of foreign institutional investors has indeed significantly positive impacts on futures returns at the individual level. By contrast, the effect of the VPIN of domestic institutional investors on futures returns is only significant on Wednesdays, which could be seen as a special kind of day-of-the-week effect.





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