Handbook of Asian Finance REITs, Trading, and Fund Performance, Volume 2

Participants in Asian financial markets have witnessed the unprecedented growth and sophistication of their investments since the 1997 crisis. Handbook of Asian Finance: REITs, Trading, and Fund Performance analyzes the forces behind these growth rates. Insights into banking, fund performance, and the effects of trading technologies for practitioners to tax evasion, market manipulation, and corporate governance issues are all here, presented by expert scholars. Offering broader and deeper coverage than other handbooks, the Handbook of Asian Finance: REITs, Trading, and Fund Performance explains what is going on in Asia today.

ASIAN REITs

• The Evolution of Financial Analysts’ Forecasts for Asian REITs and Real Estate Companies. Alain Coën and Aurélie Desfleurs
• Home Bias in Asian REITs’ Portfolio Investment Strategy.Lucia Gibilaro and Gianluca Mattarocci
• Market Structure and Growth Potential of Singapore REITs. Francis Koh, Kok Fai Phoon, David Lee, Ee Seng Seah
• Another Look at Asian REITs Performance after the Global Financial Crisis.Alain Cöen, Patrick Lecomte
• Bootstrap Analysis for Asian REIT's Portfolios. Juliana Caicedo-Llano and Enareta Kurtbegu
• Varying Implicit Prices of Housing Attributes: Testing Tiebout Theory. Seong-Hoon Cho, Roland K. Roberts,Taeyoung Kim, Sae Woon Park, and Heeho Kim

TRADING

• High-Frequency Trading On Asian Exchanges.Michael Syn
• The Regulation of High-Frequency Trading: An Asian Perspective.Imad Moosa and Vikash Ramiah
• Does the Chart Pattern Work in Asian Markets?Weihong Huang and Wanying Wang
• Algorithm Trading in Asian Currency FX Market.Masayuki Susai and Yushi Yoshida
• A Relative Valuation Approach for Valuing Equity in Malaysia. Brian S. Sutedja, Noor Azuddin Yakob and Carl B. McGowan Jr.
• A Common Measure of Liquidity Costs for ETF and Futures on MSCI Singapore Free Index. Christopher Ting
• The Trading Behavior of iShares Listed in Hong Kong Stock Exchange. Gerasimos G. Rompotis
• Are Technical Trading Rules Still Profitable in the Asian-Equity Markets? Camillo Lento
• Nonparametric Multiple Change Point Analysis of the Response to Asian Markets to the Global Financial Crisis. David E. Allen, Petko S. Kalev, Michael J. McAleer and Abhay K. Singh
• News Sentiment and High-Frequency Volatility Dynamics in the Japanese Stock Market. Kin-Yip Ho, Yanlin Shi and Zhaoyong Zhang

• Evaluation of Mutual Fund Growth and Performance in Asia. Kym Brown, John Watson, John Vaz and Michael Skully
• The Puzzle of the Hedge Fund Alpha with an Application to Asian Funds. Raymond Theoret, Francois-Eric Racicot and Greg Gregoriou
• Performance Attribution for Chinese Investment Vehicles: An Application to Open-End Active Mutual Funds. Valerio Poti and Dengli Wang
• The Performance Persistence of Socially Responsible Investing Funds in Asia. Hooi Hooi Lean, Russell Smyth and Wei Rong Ang
• What Drives the Time-Varying Performance of Japanese Mutual Funds? Kin-yip Ho, Hanlin Shi and Zhaoyong Zhang
• Tournament Behaviour in Asian Managed Funds. Vikash Ramiah and Imad Moosa
• An Analysis of Asian Mutual Fund Performance. Gamini Premaratne and Jones Mensah
• Mean Variance Analysis of Asian Hedge Funds. Zhidong Bai, Yongchang Hui, Kok Fai Phoon and Wing-Keung Wong

Undergraduates, graduate students, and professionals working in all aspects of Asian financial markets, institutions, and pan-Asian financial issues.

David LEE Kuo Chuenis a Professor of Financial Technology and Blockchain at the Singapore University of Social Sciences (SUSS), an Adjunct Professor at the National University of Singapore (NUS), a Council Member of the British Blockchain Association, Vice President of the Economic Society of Singapore, and Editor-in-Chief or Deputy Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Fintech and Annual Review of Fintech. He is also Chairman of the Global FinTech Institute (GFI), co-founder of the Singapore Blockchain Association, co-founder of the Blockchain Security Alliance, advisor to the Asian Development Bank, cryptocurrency advisor to the Asian Institute of Digital Finance (AIDF) of NUS, advisor to the SUSS Node for inclusive FinTech (NiFT), independent director of several technology companies in Singapore, angel investor in blockchain, WEB3, inclusive finance and AI innovation, senior advisor and Investment Committee member of Artichoke Capital which is backed by institutional and sovereign wealth fund limited partners.

A native of Montreal, Professor Greg N. Gregoriou obtained his joint Ph.D. in finance at the University of Quebec at Montreal which merges the resources of Montreal's four major universities McGill, Concordia, UQAM and HEC. Professor Gregoriou is Professor of Finance at State University of New York (Plattsburgh) and has taught a variety of finance courses such as Alternative Investments, International Finance, Money and Capital Markets, Portfolio Management, and Corporate Finance. He has also lectured at the University of Vermont, Universidad de Navarra and at the University of Quebec at Montreal.

Professor Gregoriou has published 50 books, 65 refereed publications in peer-reviewed journals and 24 book chapters since his arrival at SUNY Plattsburgh in August 2003. Professor Gregoriou's books have been published by McGraw-Hill, John Wiley & Sons, Elsevier-Butterworth/Heinemann, Taylor and Francis/CRC Press, Palgrave-MacMillan an

• Presents the only micro- and market-related analysis of pan-Asian finance available today
• Explores the implications implicit in the expansion of sovereign funds and the growth of the hedge fund and real estate fund management industries
• Investigates the innovations in technology that have ushered in faster capital flow and larger trading volumes