Gbenga Wilfred Akinola
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Monitoring intensity, investment inefficiency and institutional shareholders: Evidence from JSE listed companies in South Africa
Oloyede Obagbuwa , Farai Kwenda , Gbenga Wilfred Akinola doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.21511/imfi.18(3).2021.01Investment Management and Financial Innovations Volume 18, 2021 Issue #3 pp. 1-15
Views: 899 Downloads: 397 TO CITE АНОТАЦІЯThis study investigates how variation in monitoring intensity affects the efficiency of firms’ investment decisions in an emerging market in South Africa. The study hypothesis argues that the distraction of institutional shareholders has a statistically significant positive effect on corporate investment inefficiency. Using a more robust Generalized Method of Moments (Sys GMM) estimation approach to analyze data collected for firms listed at the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE) for the period 2004–2019, the results showed that the distraction of institutional shareholders has a positive and statistically significant impact on investment inefficiency. That is, when the attention of institutional shareholders is shifted, the intensity of their monitoring drops, and the executive is involved in investment decisions that are not profitable. This insight has an implication for stakeholders and the value-creating corporate governance mechanism. The study concludes that institutional shareholders must always sustain their monitoring intensity to ensure that corporate decisions are consistent with the firm’s value.
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The effect of a new wave of COVID-19 on the stock market performance: Evidence from the twenty JSE listed companies in South Africa
Gbenga Wilfred Akinola , Keji Sunday Anderu , Josue Mbonigaba doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.21511/imfi.18(4).2021.07Investment Management and Financial Innovations Volume 18, 2021 Issue #4 pp. 67-79
Views: 1592 Downloads: 487 TO CITE АНОТАЦІЯThe lockdown shocks resulting from the global pandemic of COVID-19 in March 2020 brought untold economic imbalance to the financial sector in South Africa. The government’s proactive alternative measure of control to the new wave of COVID-19 must be investigated to offer policy suggestions for future economic and financial planning. Consequently, this study investigated the impact of the new wave of COVID-19 on the financial market with a special interest in the twenty JSE listed companies in South Africa. To enhance the quality in the frequency of study, daily panel data from November 2020 to January 2021 were sourced from S&P Capital IQ and Google online. The impact of COVID-19 was investigated alongside other variables that can influence the return of the stock markets on twenty JSE listed companies. The variables under investigation are daily exchange rate (dollar terms), dividend-adjusted share pricing, daily COVID-19 infection rate. Both robust descriptive and fixed effects time-variant analyses were adopted as the estimating techniques. The study provided empirical evidence that there is a direct but slow link between the daily incidence of infectious COVID-19 and returns on the stock market as key variables. This positive relationship indicates that both COVID-19 and financial activities could co-habit together to enhance greater return on the stock in South Africa. Hence, lockdown may not be most appropriate to the national economy of South Africa.
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