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Original Article
Open Access
A Review of Momentum as an Investment Strategy
Ranajee, Rajesh Pathak, Satish Kumar
· pp. 7–21
DOI: 10.17010/ijf/2015/v9i10/79556
Existing literature claims momentum as a profitable investment strategy. It is widely documented in finance literature that momentum profit has explanatory power, and it provides additional information for explaining the abnormal returns of the stocks. The paper was written with …
Keywords:
Momentum, Price Momentum, Earning Momentum, Volatility, Market State, Information Diffusion.
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Original Article
Open Access
Impact of Foreign Institutional Investments on Stock Market Volatility in India
Gaurav Dadhich, Varun Chotia, Omvir Chaudhry
· pp. 22–35
DOI: 10.17010/ijf/2015/v9i10/79561
India is being viewed as a potential opportunity by investors, with the economy having the capacity to grow tremendously. Buoyed by exceptional support from the country's government, the FII sector in India looks set to prosper, and the outlook looks …
Keywords:
Stock Market Volatility, Gross Purchase, Gross Sale, Leverage Effect, Volatility Clustering, FII
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Original Article
Open Access
Empirical Evidence of Household Savings Objectives : A Demographic Comparison
Suman Chakraborty, Sabat Kumar Digal
· pp. 36–47
DOI: 10.17010/ijf/2015/v9i10/79560
Investment is one of the foremost priorities for every individual household - whether working or retired from regular service life. Investment of today would be tomorrow's financial security. The present study made an attempt to assess households' saving objectives and …
Keywords:
Investors, Liquidity, Safety, Saving Objectives, Retired Investors, Non-Retired Investors
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Original Article
Open Access
Is Equity Market Timing the Sole Criteria for Capital Structure Decisions? An Insight from Indian Firms
Sakshi Khanna, Amit Srivastava, Yajulu Medury
· pp. 48–64
DOI: 10.17010/ijf/2015/v9i10/79558
Work done on capital structure mainly focuses on developed economies and only few studies have been conducted for developing economies, especially for India. The present study is the first one which explores the validity of equity market timing for the …
Keywords:
Capital Structure, Equity Market Timing, IPO, Three Sectors of an Economy