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Bank Risk And Return: The Impact Of Bank Non-Interest Income, Barry Williams, Laurie Prather Nov 2010

Bank Risk And Return: The Impact Of Bank Non-Interest Income, Barry Williams, Laurie Prather

Laurie Prather

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to consider the impact on bank risk of portfolio diversification between traditional margin income and fee-based income for banks operating in Australia.Design/methodology/approach – Considering several performance variables, this analysis compares the benefits of diversification across different bank types relative to margin income and fee income. Further, regression analysis considers bank risk and revenue concentration.Findings – This paper documents that fee-based income is riskier than margin income but offers diversification benefits to bank shareholders. While improving bank risk-return trade-off, these benefits are of second order importance compared to the large negative impact of …


Bank Risk And Return: The Impact Of Bank Non-Interest Income, Barry Williams, Laurie Prather Nov 2010

Bank Risk And Return: The Impact Of Bank Non-Interest Income, Barry Williams, Laurie Prather

Barry Williams

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to consider the impact on bank risk of portfolio diversification between traditional margin income and fee-based income for banks operating in Australia.Design/methodology/approach – Considering several performance variables, this analysis compares the benefits of diversification across different bank types relative to margin income and fee income. Further, regression analysis considers bank risk and revenue concentration.Findings – This paper documents that fee-based income is riskier than margin income but offers diversification benefits to bank shareholders. While improving bank risk-return trade-off, these benefits are of second order importance compared to the large negative impact of …


Investor Diversification And The Pricing Of Idiosyncratic Risk, Fangjian Fu Jul 2010

Investor Diversification And The Pricing Of Idiosyncratic Risk, Fangjian Fu

Research Collection Lee Kong Chian School Of Business

Theories predict that, due to investor under-diversification, idiosyncratic risk is positively priced in expected stock returns. Empirical studies based on various methodologies yield mixed evidence. This study circumvents the debate on methodological issues and traces the pricing of idiosyncratic risk to its economic source – investor under-diversification. Assuming that institutional investors tend to hold more diversified portfolios and thus care little about idiosyncratic risk relative to individual investors, we find that the positive relation between idiosyncratic risk and stock returns is significantly stronger (weaker) in stocks that are held and traded more by individual (institutional) investors. In addition, the pricing …


Triumph Tutorials Search Of The Triumphant Strategy, Nisar Joshi, Narayan Baser, Harishchandra Singh Rathod, Apurv Raval Jun 2010

Triumph Tutorials Search Of The Triumphant Strategy, Nisar Joshi, Narayan Baser, Harishchandra Singh Rathod, Apurv Raval

Journal of Emerging Technologies and Business Management

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Excess Return Estimate And Risk Factors In Hospitality Firms, Genti Lagji Jan 2010

Excess Return Estimate And Risk Factors In Hospitality Firms, Genti Lagji

Masters Theses 1911 - February 2014

Calculating the expected return has been a longstanding issue in the finance. There is a positive correlation between the undertaken risk and excess return (or loss) but numerous variables need to be considered. This study builds on the Fama and French formula and adds factors unique to the hospitality industry such as labor cost and diversification in order to get results that are a tailored to the hospitality industry. Active hotel and restaurants companies (SIC 7011 and 5812 respectively) in the 2000-2009 period were analyzed in separate samples. The labor cost improves the explanatory on both samples and the diversification …