scholarly journals The new gatekeepers of financial claims: States, passive markets, and the growing power of index providers

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jan Fichtner ◽  
Eelke Heemskerk ◽  
Johannes Petry
Keyword(s):  
Asset Allocation ◽  
Financial Regulation ◽  
Investment Decisions ◽  
International Capital ◽  
Major Index ◽  
Position Index ◽  
Economic Reality ◽  
Managed Funds ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Infrastructural Power

Since the financial crisis there has been a massive shift from actively managed funds to passive funds that merely replicate financial indexes. Instead of active investors influencing states through their investment decisions, in this new economic reality the locus of agency is shifting from investors towards index providers as they decide which companies and countries are included into key benchmark indexes. We argue that the major index providers (MSCI, S&P Dow Jones and FTSE Russell) exercise growing private authority as they steer capital via their indexes. Index providers have become crucial intermediaries in the relationship between states and investors. Through producing widely used indexes, index providers essentially provide a crucial infrastructure that enables the creation and trading of increasingly passively allocated financial claims. Through the infrastructural power they derive from this gatekeeper position, index providers are able to ‘standardise’ the issuers of capital claims and the countries in which these issuers reside through determining the criteria that corporations and states, especially emerging markets, have to fulfil to qualify for index membership – and consequently asset allocation. This chapter therefore investigates the relationship between states and index providers and the latter’s influence on issues of domestic financial regulation, investor access and international capital flows.

Heuristic biases in investment decision-making and perceived market efficiency

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 85-110 ◽  
Author(s):  
Syed Zulfiqar Ali Shah ◽  
Maqsood Ahmad ◽  
Faisal Mahmood
Keyword(s):  
Financial Markets ◽  
Market Efficiency ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Investment Decisions ◽  
Sampling Technique ◽  
Investment Strategy ◽  
Individual Investors ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Specific Investment ◽  
The Relationship

Purpose This paper aims to clarify the mechanism by which heuristics influences the investment decisions of individual investors, actively trading on the Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX), and the perceived efficiency of the market. Most studies focus on well-developed financial markets and very little is known about investors’ behaviour in less developed financial markets or emerging markets. The present study contributes to filling this gap in the literature. Design/methodology/approach Investors’ heuristic biases have been measured using a questionnaire, containing numerous items, including indicators of speculators, investment decisions and perceived market efficiency variables. The sample consists of 143 investors trading on the PSX. A convenient, purposively sampling technique was used for data collection. To examine the relationship between heuristic biases, investment decisions and perceived market efficiency, hypotheses were tested by using correlation and regression analysis. Findings The paper provides empirical insights into the relationship of heuristic biases, investment decisions and perceived market efficiency. The results suggest that heuristic biases (overconfidence, representativeness, availability and anchoring) have a markedly negative impact on investment decisions made by individual investors actively trading on the PSX and on perceived market efficiency. Research limitations/implications The primary limitation of the empirical review is the tiny size of the sample. A larger sample would have given more trustworthy results and could have empowered a more extensive scope of investigation. Practical implications The paper encourages investors to avoid relying on heuristics or their feelings when making investments. It provides awareness and understanding of heuristic biases in investment management, which could be very useful for decision makers and professionals in financial institutions, such as portfolio managers and traders in commercial banks, investment banks and mutual funds. This paper helps investors to select better investment tools and avoid repeating expensive errors, which occur due to heuristic biases. They can improve their performance by recognizing their biases and errors of judgment, to which we are all prone, resulting in a more efficient market. So, it is necessary to focus on a specific investment strategy to control “mental mistakes” by investors, due to heuristic biases. Originality/value The current study is the first of its kind, focusing on the link between heuristics, individual investment decisions and perceived market efficiency within the specific context of Pakistan.

Characteristics analysis of behavioural portfolio theory in the Markowitz portfolio theory framework

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Saksham Mittal ◽  
Sujoy Bhattacharya ◽  
Satrajit Mandal
Keyword(s):  
Emerging Markets ◽  
Asset Allocation ◽  
Portfolio Theory ◽  
Optimal Portfolio ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Major Index ◽  
Brics Countries ◽  
Trade Offs ◽  
Characteristics Analysis ◽  
Mean Variance

PurposeIn recent times, behavioural models for asset allocation have been getting more attention due to their probabilistic modelling for scenario consideration. Many investors are thinking about the trade-offs and benefits of using behavioural models over conventional mean-variance models. In this study, the authors compare asset allocations generated by the behavioural portfolio theory (BPT) developed by Shefrin and Statman (2000) against the Markowitz (1952) mean-variance theory (MVT).Design/methodology/approachThe data used have been culled from BRICS countries' major index constituents from 2009 to 2019. The authors consider a single period economy and generate future probable outcomes based on historical data in order to determine BPT optimal portfolios.FindingsThis study shows that a fair number of portfolios satisfy the first entry constraint of the BPT model. BPT optimal portfolio exhibits high risk and higher returns as compared to typical Markowitz optimal portfolio.Originality/valueThe BRICS countries' data were used because the dynamics of the emerging markets are significantly different from the developed markets, and many investors have been considering emerging markets as their new investment avenues.

scholarly journals Credit procyclicality and financial regulation in South Africa

2016 ◽  
Vol 19 (4) ◽  
pp. 467-478
Author(s):  
James Bernstein ◽  
Leroi Raputsoana ◽  
Eric Schaling
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Business Cycle ◽  
Financial Institutions ◽  
Financial Regulation ◽  
Banking Supervision ◽  
Expansion Phase ◽  
Reference Guide ◽  
Common Reference ◽  
The Business Cycle ◽  
The Relationship

This study assesses the behaviour of credit extension over the business cycle in South Africa for the period 2000 to 2012. This is motivated by the proposal of the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision to look at credit extension over the business cycle as a reference guide for implementing countercyclical capital buffers for financial institutions. The study finds that credit extension in South increases during the trough phase, while the relationship between credit extension and the business cycle becomes insignificant during the peak phase. The study also finds that credit extension decreases during the expansion phase, while it increases during the contraction phase. Thus we do not find any evidence of procyclical behaviour of credit extension in South Africa, and the latter should therefore be used with caution and not as a mechanical rule based common reference guide for countercyclical capital buffers for financial institutions. 

scholarly journals THE MEASUREMENT OF HIERARCHICALLY SPATIAL INDUSTRIAL KNOWLEDGE SPILLOVER EFFECTS

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (6) ◽  
pp. 67-74
Author(s):  
Qianting Ye
Keyword(s):  
Industrial Structure ◽  
Knowledge Spillovers ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Guangdong Province ◽  
Spillover Effects ◽  
Spatial Effect ◽  
The Hierarchical Structure ◽  
Economic Reality ◽  
Spatial Autoregressive ◽  
The Relationship

Based on the “year–region–industry” three - dimensional unbalanced industrial production panel data of Guangdong Province in China from 2005-2013, the relationship between knowledge spillovers and industrial structure is investigated by hierarchically spatial lagged with spatial autoregressive error (HSARAR) model. The empirical results indicate that the impacts of MAR, Jacobs, and Porter spillover on Guangdong's industry economic growth is positive and statistically significant. The industrial HSARAR model considers the hierarchical structure and spatial effect simultaneously, which has a better description on economic reality than the pooled model and SARAR model.

scholarly journals Impact of Loan Accessibility on Working Capital Management and Profitability: Comparative Study of Family Versus Non-Family Firms

2020 ◽  
Vol V (I) ◽  
pp. 220-230
Author(s):  
Kanwal Iqbal Khan ◽  
Adeel Nasir ◽  
Aniqa Arslan
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Family Firms ◽  
Investment Decisions ◽  
Sustainable Growth ◽  
Capital Management ◽  
Working Capital ◽  
Financial Cost ◽  
Working Capital Management ◽  
Capital Rationing ◽  
The Relationship

This study is conducted to identify the direction of the relationship between working capital management (WCM) and firm performance of the non-financial sector of Pakistan from 2009 till 2018. This has also looked at the effect of restricted access to loan on the WCM- Profitability relationship. The findings confirmed that restricted loan accessibility impacts the WCM-Profitability relationship. The comparative analysis demonstrated that financially constrained firms are mostly non-family firms that are new, growing, smaller in size, face high risk, maintain high liquidity and tangibility ratios than non-constrained firms. Further, the working capital levels of financially constraint firms is lower because of high operating expenses and greater capital rationing. Managers and scholars may use these findings for the administration of their working capital policies in order to avoid the financial cost and create more opportunities for financial accessibility which is further beneficial for making informed investment decisions, yielding higher profits that contribute towards sustainable growth.

scholarly journals Impact of Portfolio Strategies on Portfolio Performance and Risk

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 73
Author(s):  
Zunera Shaukat ◽  
Ahmad Shahzad
Keyword(s):  
Asset Allocation ◽  
Stock Prices ◽  
Sharpe Ratio ◽  
Portfolio Performance ◽  
Dynamic Asset Allocation ◽  
Portfolio Strategies ◽  
Tactical Asset Allocation ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Post Hoc ◽  
The Relationship

The Portfolio strategies are the effective investment tools pertaining to active and passive investment approaches. This signifies the investor’s inclination of buying and selling the risky and risk-free assets. The research includes four strategies namely buy and hold strategy, dynamic asset allocation, strategic asset allocation and tactical asset allocation along with their dimensions. Strategies based hypothetical portfolios are generated on the basis of 14 years’ stock prices (2005-2017). The annually and monthly risk-adjusted return ratios; Sharpe ratio, Treynor’s measure, CAPM and Jenson Alpha are calculated individually. Simulated annualized portfolios generate significant result with Sharpe and treynor measure. Alpha return is generated with buy and hold if based on growth in stock prices. For empirical result, One-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) is used for studying the relationship between the strategies. Post hoc Tukey’s test is applied to find the difference between the strategies. The ANOVA and Tukey’s post hoc test for monthly portfolios gives significant results with three measure Sharpe ratio, CAPM and Jenson Alpha. No empirical significant result is measured on the basis of treynor measure.

Impact of Personality Traits on Risk Tolerance and Investors' Decision Making

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-20 ◽  
Author(s):  
Misbah Sadiq ◽  
Hareem Amna
Keyword(s):  
Personality Traits ◽  
Big Five ◽  
Descriptive Analysis ◽  
Investment Decisions ◽  
Risk Tolerance ◽  
Primary Data ◽  
Individual Investors ◽  
Confirmatory Factor ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Practical Implications

This article investigates the relationships between personality traits, risk tolerance, and investment decisions and highlights the importance of personality traits in determining risk tolerance levels and investment decisions. Personality traits are classified according to the Big Five taxonomy: extroversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, neuroticism and openness to experience. Primary data was collected from 330 individual investors from Islamabad. Descriptive analysis of the data was run on SPSS, reliability of the constructs was assessed through Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA), whereas, Structural Equational Modelling (SEM) was used to conduct hypothesis testing through path analysis. As per the results of CFA, the constructs were found to be reliable. Mediation analysis confirmed that risk tolerance partially mediated the relationship between personality traits and investment decisions. This study and results have theoretical and practical implications for the investors, financial planners and managers.

Financial Regulation

2011 ◽  
Vol 216 ◽  
pp. F4-F9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ray Barrell ◽  
E. Phillip Davies
Keyword(s):  
Risk Taking ◽  
Financial Crises ◽  
Financial Regulation ◽  
Banking Regulation ◽  
Committee Report ◽  
Costs And Benefits ◽  
Basel Committee ◽  
The Core ◽  
The World ◽  
The Relationship

The financial crisis that engulfed the world in 2007 and 2008 has led to a wave of re-regulation and discussion of further regulation that has culminated in the proposals from the Basel Committee as well as those in the Vickers Committee report on Banking Regulation and Financial Crises. This issue of the Review contains a number of papers on Banking Regulation, covering many aspects of the debate, and we can put that debate in perspective through these papers and also by discussing our work on the relationship between bank size and risk taking, which is reported in Barrell et al. (2011). We addressed the causes of the crisis in the October 2008 Review, and began to look at the costs and benefits of bank regulation in Barrell et al. (2009). In that paper we argued that we needed to know the causes of crises and whether the regulators could do anything to affect them before we discussed new regulations. It is now generally agreed that increasing core capital reduces the probability of a crisis occurring, and most changes in regulation that are being discussed see this as the core of their toolkit. The work by the Institute macro team in Barrell et al. (2009) and in Barrell, Davis, Karim and Liadze (2010) was the first to demonstrate that there was a statistically important role for capital in defending against the probability of a crisis occurring, and our findings were widely used in the policy community in the debate over reform.

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