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Terrence Hallahan
Researcher at RMIT University
Publications - 18
Citations - 838
Terrence Hallahan is an academic researcher from RMIT University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Financial risk & Volatility smile. The author has an hindex of 9, co-authored 17 publications receiving 792 citations. Previous affiliations of Terrence Hallahan include Victoria University, Australia.
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An empirical investigation of personal financial risk tolerance
TL;DR: In this article, a large database of psychometrically derived financial risk tolerance scores and associated demographic information was analyzed and it was found that people's self-assessed risk tolerance generally accords with RTS.
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An exploratory investigation of the relation between risk tolerance scores and demographic characteristics
TL;DR: This paper examined the relationship between a psychometrically derived measure of subjective financial risk tolerance and a range of demographic characteristics that are widely used as a basis for heuristically derived estimates of investors' attitudes towards financial risk.
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An examination of Australian equity trusts for selectivity and market timing performance
Terrence Hallahan,Robert W. Faff +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the market timing ability of a segment of the Australian investment fund industry, namely, equity trusts, over the period 1988-1997, by running both quadratic excess returns market model and dual-beta excess return market model regressions.
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Induced persistence or reversals in fund performance?: the effect of survivorship bias
Terrence Hallahan,Robert W. Faff +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors apply the non parametric contingency table methodology to the year on year raw returns of a sample of Australian rollover funds as a means of gauging which of these survivorship bias hypotheses has greater support.
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Nonlinear linkages between financial risk tolerance and demographic characteristics
TL;DR: The authors explored the nonlinear linkage between financial risk tolerance and demographic characteristics, including age, income, and number of dependents, and found that the non-linear role of demographic characteristics in financial risk-tolerance was not well understood.