Modern geostatistical mapping methods are being applied to various types of data to produce more realistic and flexible characterizations of a natural random process. The Bayesian Maximum Entropy (BME) is a well-known geostatistical estimation method, especially for the use of soft knowledge as well as exact measurement data. Although development in geostatistical methods helps us to solve limi...

Data visualization provides a means to present known information in a format that is easily consumable and does not generally require specialized training. It is also well-suited to aid an analyst in discovering previously unknown information [1]. This is possible because visualization techniques can be used to highlight internal relationships and structures within the data, and present them in...

This paper investigates the stock characteristic preferences of active Australian equity managers. We examine the following characteristics: stock price variance, momentum, size, transaction costs, earnings yield, analyst coverage and the standard deviation of analyst forecasts. In aggregate we find that active managers exhibit preferences for stocks exhibiting high price variance, large market...

Analyst research helps prices reflect information about a security’s fundamentals. However, analysts’ private incentives potentially contribute to misleading research and it is possible that the market fixates on such misleading and/or optimistic reports. We examine cross-sectional determinants of the informativeness of analyst reports, i.e., their effect on security prices, controlling for end...