Remuneration is broadly used as an incentive that affects decisions made and strategies planned by directors which cause great impact on firm performance and profitability. This study aims to investigate the directors' remuneration of the consumer products sector focusing particularly on Malaysian listed companies under Consumer Product Industry. These firm's performances are measured by return on assets (ROA) and return on equities (ROE). This study consists a sample of 40 Malaysian listed companies for the period of 2012 to 2014. After controlling for board size, CEO duality, firm size, firm age, and leverage; the regression results show director remuneration has positive relationship with firm performance (measured by ROA and ROE). This suggests that high remuneration is able to motivate and retain directors in order to perform their duty and work harder for the best interest of shareholders. The result also shows all variables affect firm performance differently. For future research, we recommend that this study be expanded using more samples from other industries and other measurement of firm performances such as growth and ratings.

This study is conducted to analyse the credibility of the fundamental analysis and technical analysis on predicting the stock return and compare both models to determine which model is more credible to be used as a good trading strategy by investors. The study is based on 80 companies selected from Bursa Malaysia in the food manufacturing industry in the main market from the year of 2012 to 2016. The stock return is used to measure whether both analyses are able to forecast and generate the positive return. Net profit margin, price earnings ratio and total asset turnover are used as fundamental indicators while moving average convergence divergence is used as technical analysis indicators. In order to test the significance of both model on stock return, panel regression models are applied in this study. The result shows that although both model can be used to generate positive return, technical analysis did not outperform fundamental analysis in the food manufacturing industry in Bursa Malaysia.

The purpose of this study is to develop a Model of Relationship between Teacher Leadership and Teacher Efficacy among secondary school teachers in Malaysia. The study uses both domestic and international studies. This study examines issues in the relationship between teacher leadership and teacher efficacy comprising national education policies and teacher quality. Challenges in teacher leadership and teacher efficacy include the industry revolution 4.0. international education, and international antenatal care. The implication of this study is hoped to provide additional information in the teacher leadership and teacher efficacy theory and provide a clear line of training and professionalism enhancement programs for teachers, schools and the Ministry of Education Malaysia.

The performance of Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT) can be literarily explained in terms of its operational success which is revealed in its profitability to the investors (Grupe & DiRocco, 1999). A company’s success in investments is usually measured by its profitability. The objective of this study is to examine the role of determinant factors towards the profitability of M-REITs. This research was conducted using procedures of panel data for a total sample of 8 Malaysia’s Real Estate Investment Trusts (M-REITs) for a period of 8 years, starting from 2008 until 2015. The profitability of M-REITs was measured by the return on equity (ROE) as the dependent variable, whereas the determinant factors for M-REITs’ profitability are dividend yield (DY), net asset value (NAV) and price earnings ratio (PER) as the independent variables. The outcome from the research revealed that only dividend yield (DY) has a positive significant relationship with M-REITs profitability, and no significant relationship was found between both net asset value (NAV) and price earnings ratio (PER) towards M-REITs profitability.

With the exit of Bretton Woods System and Gold Standard, the floating rate was adopted by most countries among ASEAN region. Floating exchange rate has been a major debacle issue for the volatility of world gold price in relation to national currency value including that of the ASEAN region. The motivation behind this empirical study is to examine the relationship between gold price and exchange rate of ASEAN major currencies such as Malaysian Ringgit (MYR/USD), Singapore Dollar (SGD/USD), and Thai Bath (THB/USB) against the US dollar. Gold price is primarily dominated in US dollar, and any variation in US dollar may influence the value of other currencies. The monthly meta-analysis involves the study of a span of 30-year data, effective from 1981 to 2010. While the findings report no short term relationship, a Johansen Co-integration test finds evidence of a long term relationship between gold price vis-a-vis the exchange rate of major ASEAN currencies, such as MYR/USD, SGD/USD and THB/USD. Further evidence from OLS shows that gold price has a positive relationship with MYR/USD but reports perverse relationship against SGD/USD and THB/USD.