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The investigation of style indices and active portfolio construction on the JSE

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Main Author: Yu, Xiao
Other Authors: Van Rensburg, Paul
Format: Thesis
Language:English
Published: Department of Finance and Tax 2015
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spelling oai:open.uct.ac.za:11427/14038 The investigation of style indices and active portfolio construction on the JSE Yu, Xiao Van Rensburg, Paul Finance Includes bibliographical references. This thesis investigates the construction and performance of style indices on the JSE. It then demonstrates how a 'toolkit' of style indices can be used, together with conventional passive indices, as a set of building blocks for efficient portfolio construction. This study tests the performance of a variety of potential style indices representing 'size', 'value' and 'momentum' effects. Selected indices for each style together with JSE sector indices are subsequently utilised to replicate the returns obtained on actively managed domestic equity funds using Sharpe's (1988, 1992) style decomposition method. Finally, a 'toolkit' of selected style indices are employed as building blocks to construct mean-variance and mean-tracking error optimal portfolios at low cost. 2015-09-15T10:35:22Z 2015-09-15T10:35:22Z 2008 Master Thesis Masters MCom http://hdl.handle.net/11427/14038 eng application/pdf Department of Finance and Tax Faculty of Commerce University of Cape Town
spellingShingle Finance
Yu, Xiao
The investigation of style indices and active portfolio construction on the JSE
thesis_degree_str Master's
title The investigation of style indices and active portfolio construction on the JSE
title_full The investigation of style indices and active portfolio construction on the JSE
title_fullStr The investigation of style indices and active portfolio construction on the JSE
title_full_unstemmed The investigation of style indices and active portfolio construction on the JSE
title_short The investigation of style indices and active portfolio construction on the JSE
title_sort investigation of style indices and active portfolio construction on the jse
topic Finance
url http://hdl.handle.net/11427/14038
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