Download or read book Individual and Institutional Trading Volume Around Firm Specific Announcements written by Priyantha Mudalige and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We investigate the immediate impact of firm-specific announcements on the trading volume of individual and institutional investors on the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX). Institutional investors exhibit abnormal trading volume before and after announcements. However, individual investors indicate abnormal trading volume only after announcements. Consistent with outcomes expected from a dividend washing strategy, abnormal trading volume around dividend announcements is statistically insignificant. Both individual and institutional investors' buy volumes are higher than sell volumes before and after scheduled and unscheduled announcements. Our results add to the understanding of individual and institutional investors' trading behaviour around firm-specific announcements in a securities market with continuous disclosure.

Download or read book Trading Volume Around Firm Specific Announcements written by Priyantha Mudalige and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 41 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study investigates the impact of timing of the release of firm-specific announcements on trading volume of individual and institutional investors. We use trading data in five-minute intervals to capture the immediate impact of announcements on the trading volume. We find that individual investors exhibit positive and significant abnormal volume prior to, issued capital announcements and after earnings announcements. However, institutions exhibit significant and positive abnormal volume prior to, and after earnings, periodic and issued capital announcements. Notably, both individual and institutional investors do not exhibit significant abnormal volume prior to, and after dividend announcements. Furthermore, individual (institutional) investors' buy (sell) volume is significantly higher than sell (buy) volume prior to, and after scheduled and unscheduled announcements. Our results suggest that timing of the release of firm-specific announcements influences investor trading volume.

Download or read book Special Issue on Fragmented Markets written by P. Joakim Westerholm and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cover -- Editorial advisory board -- Guest editorial -- Price discovery and convergence in fragmented securities markets -- Short sales and price discovery of Chinese cross-listed firms -- Individual and institutional trading volume around firm-specific announcements -- The impact of institutional trading on liquidity and volatility during the financial crisis

Download or read book Individual and Institutional Informed Trading in Competing Firms Around Earnings Announcements written by Priyantha Mudalige and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study investigates individual and institutional trading activities in competing firms to infer informed trading. We find evidence for individual and institutional informed trading in competing firms around earnings announcements. The evidence is stronger prior to announcements than after announcements. Magnitude of institutional (individual) net order flow coefficient decreases (increases) with lag length, suggesting that institutional trading captures information faster than individual trading. Individual net order flow transmit information cross-stock when competitor is a small firm while institutional net order flow conveys information cross-stock irrespective of firm size. Our results will be informative for regulators with regard to insider trading laws and provide insights for market participants on the impact of individual and institutional trading on cross-stock price discovery process.

Download or read book Who Trades During Earnings Announcements Evidence from Torq Data written by Malay K. Dey and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 23 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using TORQ database we investigate the intra-day trading volume reactions to earnings announcements of five trader groups, individuals, institutions, exchange members, program traders, and specialists. The results of this study indicate that institutions are most active in the immediate aftermath of an announcement. Individual investors are slow at the beginning but accumulate heavy volume afterwards and exceed institutional trading volume. We find support for Harris and Raviv (1993) and Admati and Pfleiderer (1988), who respectively argue that divergence of opinion about a public information and portfolio rebalancing cause surges in pre and post-announcement trading volume. Further we find evidence of swift and aggressive trading by informed and sophisticated institutions in the immediate aftermath of the announcement, and delayed, aggressive trading volume quot;overreactionquot; by quot;slowquot; and quot;overconfidentquot; individual investors as documented by Barber and Odean (2000, 2002) and Daniel et al (1998). NYSE specialists provide bulk of the liquidity needs around earnings announcements.

Download or read book Informed Trading Behavior of Institutions and Individuals Around Earnings Announcements written by Yu-Chen Wei and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study constructs the institutional- and individual-based probability of informed trading (PIN) by adjusting Easley, Hvidkjaer and O'Hara (2002) and investigates the impact of the informed trading behaviors of institutions and individuals on the post-announcement drift around the earnings announcement. The differences between this study and the previous literatures lie in that the investor types of informed traders are distinguished as institutions and individuals. Besides, the trading date effect is considered to examine the informed trading behaviors. The findings show that the informed trading behaviors of institutions and individuals can be distinguished. If there are informed traders involves in the stocks, the cumulative abnormal returns after the earnings announcement may be higher than the other stocks with no informed traders. Some individuals may possess relevant information that may prompt them to trade prior to or after the earnings announcement. The findings of the study may contribute to the government regulations and portfolio selections.

Download or read book The Changing Nature of Trading Volume Reactions to Earnings Announcements written by Richard A. Schneible Jr. and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 43 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We document a change in the nature of trading volume reactions to quarterly earnings announcements over the time period 1976-2005. Consistent with Landsman and Maydew (2002), we find that the magnitude of abnormal trading volume around quarterly earnings announcements has increased over time and that this increase is greater for large firms than small firms. We show, however, that this trend has reversed the negative relation between firm size and trading volume documented by Bamber (1987). Applying insights from recent trading volume theory, we predict and provide evidence that the increase in abnormal trading volume across time and firm size is due to increases in pre-announcement private information. Specifically, we show that the component of abnormal trading volume associated with price change, which theory suggests reflects pre-announcement private information, is increasing across time and firm size. Our results suggest that investors are motivated to acquire private information prior to earnings announcements about firms that have relatively high quality information environments. Thus, our results have implications for policies aimed at reducing information asymmetry between investors by increasing public disclosure.

Download or read book Trading Halts and the Advantage of Institutional Investors written by Recep Bildik and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 51 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Firm-specific trading halts have become a common practice in many international stock markets during the last two decades. However, the effects and effectiveness of trading halts remain controversial among academics and regulators. In this debate, it seems crucial to understand how the trading behavior of institutional and individual investors, the market microstructure and the duration of the halts are related to the effects of the trading halts. By considering these factors, this paper assesses the efficiency of trading halts by examining the return, volatility and volume behavior around news-initiated trading halts through the unique microstructure and trade-by-trade data of the Istanbul Stock Exchange (ISE). It also investigates, for the first time, the trading behavior of different types of investors such as individuals, mutual funds and brokerage houses around trading halts. Findings show that most of the new information is absorbed by prices within fifteen minutes (almost completely in an hour) following the resume of trading after a halt. Reaction of investors to bad news is slower and stronger than good news. Our results are robust to time-of-halt and duration-of-halt effects. Price discovery mechanisms based on fully computerized trading, non-existence of monopolist specialists and opening batch mechanisms, and restrictions on order cancellation during trading are some of the factors that accelerate the speed of adjustment in prices. In spite of halts, institutional investors would take the price advantage of new information during the halt period ahead of the individual investors by doing better timing in trading after halts. Institutional investors systematically buy and sell at more favorable prices around halts than individual investors do. Finally, overall evidence suggests that trading halts are effective in dissemination of valuable information and play an important role in enhancing the efficiency of the price discovery mechanism.

Download or read book Preannouncement and Event period Private Information Acquisition written by Man Wah Law and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Overall, the results provide empirical evidence on the association between abnormal trading volume and preannouncement and event-period private information acquisition, and lend support to the theoretical model of trading volume around public earnings announcements (Kim and Verrecchia, 1997). They are also consistent with prior studies that institutional investors possess superior information processing skill and hence they can generate more private information out of the public earnings announcement than individual investors. I undertake a sensitivity test on the adoption of International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) of AH-companies in 2005, and the results still hold. They are also robust to additional tests using data of full year earnings announcements vs. interim ones, as well as different proportions of tradable shares in A-shares and H-shares of the same AH-company. The contributions of my study are: i) It adds to the study on trading volume which, according to Bamber et al. (2010), is a relatively unexplored area of capital market research. ii) It extends the study of Bailey et al. (2007) to China with an added element of institutional differences across two segmented markets of the same country China, with each governed by different systems. iii) It enriches the literature regarding the effect of preannouncement and event-period private information acquisition by institutional investors across two segmented markets. iv) It adds to the volume based study of AH-share listed companies. Extant literature on AH-companies is mostly on price, value relevance of accounting information and cost of equity. Volume based study on cross-listed companies in two segmented markets can be widened to other areas, such as the comparison of foreign companies cross listed in overseas markets and mainland China (International Board) in the future.

Download or read book Trading Volume Reactions to Earnings Announcements and Future Firm Performance written by Doron Israeli and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I investigate whether firms with higher abnormal trading volume (ATV) around earnings announcements (EAs) outperform those with lower ATV over the short and long terms following the EA. In addition, I address whether any positive relation between ATV around EAs and future firm performance is weaker for firms with a higher proportion of shares held by sophisticated investors. Consistent with theories that attribute ATV around public announcements primarily to differing investor interpretations of the news and that link differential interpretation to future returns, I find that, for several years after an EA, firms in the highest decile of ATV significantly outperform those in the lowest decile. Further, I find that ATV and earnings surprises explain future returns incremental to the three Fama and French (1993) and momentum risk-factors. Next, consistent with the proportion of ATV driven by lack of consensus regarding the price being lower when the presence of rational investors is higher, I document that the level of investor sophistication-a proxy for investor rationality-attenuates the positive relation between ATV and future returns. Taken together, my study lends support to and links two streams of theories from financial economics, and demonstrates that trading volume reactions to EAs provide information about future returns and firm financial performance that cannot be deduced from the price reactions or the magnitudes of earnings surprises. My study also documents that the positive relation between ATV and future firm performance is sensitive to the level of security holdings of sophisticated investors.

Download or read book Caught on Tape written by John Y. Campbell and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 63 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Institutional Trading Around Earnings Announcements written by Adrian Looi and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study utilizes a unique database comprising the daily transactions of institutional Australian equity managers to examine whether active investment managers realize abnormal returns from earnings announcements, the nature of the trading strategies employed to generate these abnormal returns, and the magnitude of abnormal returns. We examine three strategies. First, whether fund managers realize abnormal returns from earnings announcements portfolio positions that most likely reflect fundamental analysis. Second, whether fund managers realize abnormal returns from trades immediately prior to the announcement, which most likely reflect short term-profiteering due to information leakage. Third, we examine whether fund managers realize abnormal returns from trades during the announcement period that most likely reflect superior interpretation of the actual earnings announcement. We find that fund managers realize abnormal returns from all three strategies. In addition, we also examine whether fund managers are rational in constructing their trading strategies, and find no evidence of the disposition effect. When investment managers have executed incorrect bets prior to earnings announcements, they subsequently reverse their trades once the public information is released.

Download or read book ESG and Responsible Institutional Investing Around the World A Critical Review written by Pedro Matos and published by CFA Institute Research Foundation. This book was released on 2020-05-29 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This survey examines the vibrant academic literature on environmental, social, and governance (ESG) investing. While there is no consensus on the exact list of ESG issues, responsible investors increasingly assess stocks in their portfolios based on nonfinancial data on environmental impact (e.g., carbon emissions), social impact (e.g., employee satisfaction), and governance attributes (e.g., board structure). The objective is to reduce exposure to investments that pose greater ESG risks or to influence companies to become more sustainable. One active area of research at present involves assessing portfolio risk exposure to climate change. This literature review focuses on institutional investors, which have grown in importance such that they have now become the largest holders of shares in public companies globally. Historically, institutional investors tended to concentrate their ESG efforts mostly on corporate governance (the “G” in ESG). These efforts included seeking to eliminate provisions that restrict shareholder rights and enhance managerial power, such as staggered boards, supermajority rules, golden parachutes, and poison pills. Highlights from this section: · There is no consensus on the exact list of ESG issues and their materiality. · The ESG issue that gets the most attention from institutional investors is climate change, in particular their portfolio companies’ exposure to carbon risk and “stranded assets.” · Investors should be positioning themselves for increased regulation, with the regulatory agenda being more ambitious in the European Union than in the United States. Readers might come away from this survey skeptical about the potential for ESG investing to affect positive change. I prefer to characterize the current state of the literature as having a “healthy dose of skepticism,” with much more remaining to be explored. Here, I hope the reader comes away with a call to action. For the industry practitioner, I believe that the investment industry should strive to achieve positive societal goals. CFA Institute provides an exemplary case in its Future of Finance series (www.cfainstitute.org/research/future-finance). For the academic community, I suggest we ramp up research aimed at tackling some of the open questions around the pressing societal goals of ESG investing. I am optimistic that practitioners and academics will identify meaningful ways to better harness the power of global financial markets for addressing the pressing ESG issues facing our society.

Download or read book Advances in Pacific Basin Business Economics and Finance written by Cheng-Few Lee and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2018-09-06 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Advances in Pacific Basin Business, Economics, and Finance is an annual publication designed to focus on interdisciplinary research in finance, economics, and management among Pacific Rim countries.

Download or read book Stock Market Liquidity written by François-Serge Lhabitant and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2008-01-09 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brings together today's best financial minds across the world to discuss the issue of liquidity in today's markets. It is often proxied by trade-based measures (such as trading volume, frequency of trading, dollar value of shares trade, etc), order based measures and price impact measures.

Download or read book Research Handbook of Finance and Sustainability written by Sabri Boubaker and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2018 with total page 681 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The severe consequences of the global financial crisis 2008-2009 and numerous accounting frauds and financial scandals over the last fifteen years have let to calls for more ethical and responsible actions in all economic activities including consumption, investing, governance and regulation. Despite the fact that ethics in business and corporate social responsibility rules have been adopted in various countries, more efforts have to be devoted to motivate and empower more actors to integrate ethical behavior and rules in making business and managerial decisions. The Research Handbook of Finance and Sustainability will provide the readers but particularly investors, managers, and policymakers with comprehensive coverage of the issues at the crossroads of finance, ethics and sustainable development as well as proposed solutions, while focusing on three different levels: corporations, investment funds, and financial markets.

Download or read book Research Handbook on the Economics of Corporate Law written by Claire A. Hill and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2012-04-01 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comprising essays specially commissioned for the volume, leading scholars who have shaped the field of corporate law and governance explore and critique developments in this vibrant and expanding area and offer possible directions for future research. This important addition to the Research Handbooks in Law and Economics series provides insights into subjects such as the role of directors, shareholders, creditors and employees; empirical studies of litigation and shareholder activism; executive compensation; corporate gatekeepers; comparative law; and behavioral approaches to law and finance. Topics are organized within five sections: corporate constituencies, insider governance, gatekeepers, jurisdiction, and new theory. Taken as a whole, the volume serves as an introduction for those new to the field and as a reference for those unfamiliar with some of the topics discussed. Authoritative and accessible, the Research Handbook on the Economics of Corporate Law will be a valuable resource for students, scholars, and practitioners of corporate law and economics.