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Nonlinearities in stock return prediction: A Blended Approach
(The Clute Institute, 2013)
Our prior research indicates that there are periods within which nonlinear stock selection models outperform their linear counterparts in the South African equity market. In order to explore the nonlinearities in stock ...
Potential gains from sector timing in Taiwan
(IFRD, 2013)
The dominance of the electronic sector in the Taiwanese stock market and the relatively low historical correlation between the Taiwanese electronic and financial sector indexes call for the exploration of sector diversity ...
A review of performance evaluation measures for actively-managed portfolios
(IFRD, 2013)
In the recognition that investment management is an on-going process, the performance of actively-managed portfolios need to be monitored and evaluated to ensure that funds under management are efficiently invested in order ...
Potential gains from predicting the timing of stock market persistence and mean reversion
(Business Perspectives, 2013)
This paper undertakes to investigate the effectiveness of market timing between prior winners and losers in the global
equity markets using Monte Carlo simulation over the period from 1 January 1999 to 31 December 2009. ...
Understanding retail strategy and shopping behaviour: Perspectives from a developing country
(Academic Journals, 2012)
This research indicates that in order for retailers to achieve their primary objective of increasing the amount of customer traffic into their stores, some powerful, highly effective and strategic tools that retailers ...
Relationship marketing: Strategic and tactical challenges for SMEs
(Academic Journals, 2010)
This study sought to explore the tactical and strategic challenges, which small and medium sized service firms may face in their bid to successfully practice and implement Relationship marketing. The framework of the ...
Education and SMME Business Growth: A Gender Perspective from South Africa
(The Clute Institute, 2013)
Entrepreneurship is becoming an increasingly important source of employment for women in many countries. Policymakers and other stakeholders typically fail to differentiate between the needs of different SMME sectors when ...
Barriers to tacit knowledge retention: an understanding of the perceptions of the knowledge management of people inside and outside the organisation
(AOSIS Open Journals, 2013)
BACKGROUND: Knowledge loss causes challenges for organisations that wish to remain competitive. These organisations must identify the risks that could lead to knowledge loss and become aware of issues that affect knowledge ...
Small medium micro enterprise business goals and government support: a South African case study
(APM, 2013)
Small and medium-scale enterprises (SMMEs) form the majority of the enterprises in the South African economy. The South African government has identified the SMME sector as one of the potential enablers to achieve its ...
Strategies, practices and skills for competitiveness in the digital economy: a perspective on large companies in South Africa
(University of the Western Cape, University of Stellenbosch Business School & Ikamva National e-Skills Institute (iNeSI), 2014)
The impact of the digital developments of our time - new digital devices, new software, and new areas of applications - can be felt in more and more areas of life and work. In fact, in some areas of business the impact is ...