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The prima facie relationship between size of assets under management and the risk-adjusted performance of South African collective investment schemes

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Main Author: Kopke, Kerry-Leigh Elizabeth
Other Authors: West, Darron
Format: Thesis
Language:English
Published: Department of Finance and Tax 2016
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spelling oai:open.uct.ac.za:11427/16662 The prima facie relationship between size of assets under management and the risk-adjusted performance of South African collective investment schemes Kopke, Kerry-Leigh Elizabeth West, Darron Financial Management Includes bibliographical references There is a plethora of academic literature on the relationship between a collective investment scheme's (or mutual fund) size and its risk-adjusted performance but the research has produced contradictory results with no apparent consensus. Data from a sample size of 100 (one hundred) collective investment schemes in the Association for Savings and Investments (South Africa) ("ASISA"), SA Equity General Fund classification group over a 10 (ten) year period was analysed using regression techniques and ranking analysis to examine whether there was any prime facie relationship between the fund size and the risk-adjusted performance of South African collective investment schemes. The regression analysis found no statistically significant correlation between fund size and risk-adjusted performance. However, the results of the ranking analysis suggested a possible inverted U-Shape relationship between collective investment scheme fund size and risk-adjusted performance. This therefore presents an argument for an optimal fund size range of between R912,267,649.3 and R1,930,696,676 (about 1 - 2 billion Rand) in assets under management to maximise risk-adjusted performance. 2016-02-01T10:17:16Z 2016-02-01T10:17:16Z 2015 Master Thesis Masters MCom http://hdl.handle.net/11427/16662 eng application/pdf Department of Finance and Tax Faculty of Commerce University of Cape Town
spellingShingle Financial Management
Kopke, Kerry-Leigh Elizabeth
The prima facie relationship between size of assets under management and the risk-adjusted performance of South African collective investment schemes
thesis_degree_str Master's
title The prima facie relationship between size of assets under management and the risk-adjusted performance of South African collective investment schemes
title_full The prima facie relationship between size of assets under management and the risk-adjusted performance of South African collective investment schemes
title_fullStr The prima facie relationship between size of assets under management and the risk-adjusted performance of South African collective investment schemes
title_full_unstemmed The prima facie relationship between size of assets under management and the risk-adjusted performance of South African collective investment schemes
title_short The prima facie relationship between size of assets under management and the risk-adjusted performance of South African collective investment schemes
title_sort prima facie relationship between size of assets under management and the risk adjusted performance of south african collective investment schemes
topic Financial Management
url http://hdl.handle.net/11427/16662
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