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Copy cat unit trust investment strategies in high cost structure environments
Dissertation (MBA)--University of Pretoria, 2011.
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| spelling | oai:repository.up.ac.za:2263/23326 Copy cat unit trust investment strategies in high cost structure environments Muller, Chris ichelp@gibs.co.za Buckley, Simone Denym UCTD Mutual fund disclosure Copy cat investing Unit trust investing Dissertation (MBA)--University of Pretoria, 2011. Copy cat investment strategies exist in the US, where copy cat funds profitably replicate the investing behaviour of larger more renowned funds, leveraging off research completed by the initial fund, without incurring the same level of expenses. Funds, or unit trusts as they are known in South Africa, are mandated to disclose portfolio holdings quarterly, with the intention of enabling investors to track whether funds are meeting their stated objectives, through more frequent access to portfolio holdings. More frequent disclosure has lead to significant controversy internationally, with some researchers providing evidence that more frequent disclosure has lead to copy cat investing strategies. In contrast to the research completed in the US, copy cat funds in South Africa are able to generate similar returns, before costs, but once costs are included t-tests provided evidence that the copy cat fund was not able to generate significantly higher returns than the actual fund, particularly in the long run. These tests hold true when considering the whole general equity market, but interestingly do not hold statistically valid for every fund when considering them in isolation. Certain funds within the general equity classification offer potential for copy cat investing and have successfully proven outperformance in the last decade. Copy cat investors would need to seek out these funds based on the predicted outperformance of each fund, by considering the historical behaviour and then lastly by considering their own, already questionable, risk appetite. Copyright Gordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS) unrestricted 2013-09-06T15:01:24Z 2012-04-10 2013-09-06T15:01:24Z 2012-03-08 2011 2012-03-19 Dissertation Buckley, SD, 2011, Copy cat unit trust investment strategies in high cost structure environments, MBA dissertation, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, viewed yymmdd < http://hdl.handle.net/2263/23326 > F/12/4/205/gm http://hdl.handle.net/2263/23326 http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-03192012-114746/ © 2011, University of Pretoria. All rights reserved. The copyright in this work vests in the University of Pretoria. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the University of Pretoria application/pdf University of Pretoria |
| spellingShingle | UCTD Mutual fund disclosure Copy cat investing Unit trust investing Copy cat unit trust investment strategies in high cost structure environments |
| title | Copy cat unit trust investment strategies in high cost structure environments |
| title_full | Copy cat unit trust investment strategies in high cost structure environments |
| title_fullStr | Copy cat unit trust investment strategies in high cost structure environments |
| title_full_unstemmed | Copy cat unit trust investment strategies in high cost structure environments |
| title_short | Copy cat unit trust investment strategies in high cost structure environments |
| title_sort | copy cat unit trust investment strategies in high cost structure environments |
| topic | UCTD Mutual fund disclosure Copy cat investing Unit trust investing |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/2263/23326 http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-03192012-114746/ |