Purpose: The current study sought to establish the effect of portfolio diversification on financial performance microfinance institutions in Kenya. focused establishing effects asset class diversification, risk profiling income and locational was supported by Shiftability Theory, Capital Market Resource Based Theory Balanced Score Card Theory. 
 Methodology: A descriptive research design u...

The long-standing argument that focused operations outperform others stands in contrast to theory and evidence supporting a broader scope for organizations. The literature on related diversification at the level of the firm provides some reconciliation of these conflicting observations by suggesting that multi-unit firms with a portfolio of related businesses outperform both single-unit firms a...

We present four methods of assessing the diversification potential within a stock market, and two of these are based on principal component analysis. They were applied to the Australian stock exchange for the years 2000 to 2014 and all show a consistent picture. The potential for diversification declined almost monotonically in the three years prior to the 2008 financial crisis, leaving investo...

in this study we analyze the effects of environmental performance on the generation of firm value from dow jones sustainability index europe. we use a sample of 122 firms from different sectors, except financial one, which belong to this index for the years 2007 through 2009. the expected results, taking into account our hypotheses, should show a positive relationship between the generation of ...

Recent financial liberalization in Taiwan has caused local banks to face major structural changes. This paper examines the cost structure of 36 local banks in Taiwan using the translog cost function and attempts to identify suitable operating strategies for cost reduction and performance improvements. Results indicate scale economies for small and large-sized banks and scope economies for all b...

the focal objective of this study is to analyze and explore the co-movement of pakistan stock market (kse-100) with the stock market of developed countries (us, uk, canada, australia, germany, japan, france and neither land) which have portfolio investment in pakistan by applying co-integration approach using johansen and juselius multivariate and bi variate co-integration. secondary data of st...

A microfinance institution-driving goal is to gain profits so that they can uphold sustainable and stable growth. The internal external economic environs are both regarded as critical drivers for the performance of Microfinance. study sought assess effect loan risk diversification on financial Institutions in Western region Kenya. This was based modern portfolio theory balance scorecard theory....