This article reviews the diversification patterns of the leading global media conglomerates
and proposes an analytical framework for examining the factors that influence these …

Recent empirical evidence has demonstrated that both global industry factors and country
factors are important determinants of equity prices. In light of this evidence, we describe a …

The proliferation of mobile media in recent years is an international phenomenon, with
billions of devices sold annually. Mobile communications are now moving beyond …

Contributing to the meagre published literature on interrelationships amongst stock market
sectors of an economy, the present study sets out to examine both the long-run and short …

Equity returns are believed to be strongly influenced by country, sector and style effects. A
key issue is to be able to disentangle those various effects from one another. In particular …

In establishing the foundation for their investment process, investors typically set up the
investment framework first by dividing their investment universes into different buckets along …

Asset allocation has been performed traditionally along country lines. If the balance is
shifting towards sectors, then skill in forecasting relative country returns may not be sufficient …

Just as in the oil and automotive industries in the 20th-century, the media industry is going
through a profound transformation, moving from a primarily national to a global commercial …

This article reviews the diversification patterns of the leading global media conglomerates
and proposes an analytical framework for examining the factors that influence these …

In this study, we examine whether international portfolio diversification still matters despite
an increase in the cross-country correlations of assets returns. More specifically, we explain …