This paper aims to examine if firms listed on Nasdaq Stockholm with dividend exposure yield higher risk-adjusted returns than firms without dividend exposure. Using a data set consisting of observations between 2000-2017 we test the difference in mean risk-adjusted return, measured by the Sharpe ratio, between securities with different levels of dividend exposure. We divide our sample into portfolios, categorized in the first stage independently of investment style, size and book-to-market ratio, and in the second stage on dividend exposure, that are regrouped annually. We measure the performance in terms of the geometric mean monthly returns, the risk as standard deviation of returns and the risk-adjusted performance measured with the Sharpe ratio. Following our empirical study, we find indications of a value effect in the Swedish capital market and draw upon three main conclusions. First, for all but one portfolio, the risk decreases with an increased degree of dividend exposure. Second, securities with high-dividend exposure tend to yield higher risk-adjusted returns relative to securities with no-dividend exposure. Third, the effect of dividend exposure on risk-adjusted performance appears to be most significant on mid firms and growth firms

Magister Commercii - MCom / Over the past four decades, size, value and momentum effects have been uncovered on stock markets, and several multifactor asset pricing models have been proposed to explain them. The associated premiums have been found to be time-varying and the explanations behind the effects are still debated. In South Africa, contradictory findings have been reported on the existence of those effects and the explanatory power of multifactor models. More important, the cyclicality of the effects and the risk/mispricing debate have been given little attention. In this regard, this study purports to establish the existence of size, value and momentum effects, investigate the explanatory power of the Fama-French three- and five-factor models (FF3F and FF5F respectively), and Carhart four-factor model (C4F), and examine the cyclicality and risk-based rationale of the style premiums on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE). Using a research sample comprised of common stocks included in the FTSE/JSE All Share Index (ALSI) for the period 1 January 2002 - 31 December 2018, the study subdivides the examination period into two business cycles, with each cycle including one upward phase and one downward phase

The primary purpose of this study is to test whether a value-based investment strategy will outperform a growth-based investment strategy when applied to SAREIT investment. The secondary purpose is to assess whether the SAREIT investor can discriminate between strong and weak value-REITs through sound accounting-based fundamental analysis using the F-Score Model. Building on existing research on value-based investment strategies and market efficiency, this study offers an SAREIT perspective to the existing body of knowledge on value investing theory through portfolio selection based on P/NAV, P/E, P/CF and DY ratio analysis. The holding period returns of the respective value-based portfolios are compared to their growth-based counterparts for an examination of relative performance. The evidence from this research does not offer probabilistic support that a value-based approach to SAREIT selection and investment will outperform a growth-based approach, nor that it is possible to discriminate between financially strong and weak value-REITs through sound accounting-based fundamental analysis using the F-Score Model. Further research is required to develop the said strategies and models for application to the SAREIT sector.

Cette étude porte sur le discours en paraboles mis en récit au chapitre 13 de l’évangile selon Matthieu. Elle interroge la manière dont ce corpus défend un certain nombre de valeurs auprès des lecteurs. Dans un premier temps, la recherche établit les principaux axes d’interprétation de Mt 13 : sources rédactionnelles, structure, auditoires et fonction des paraboles. Cet état de la question invite à lire Mt 13 selon la relation dynamique qu’il nourrit avec le lecteur. Une exégèse synchronique, puis diachronique, propose dans un deuxième temps de préciser la question des valeurs, de la poser à partir du langage parabolique et de son sujet-Royaume des cieux. Dans un troisième temps, la méthode d’analyse développée par Vincent Jouve (Université de Reims) est appliquée à Mt 13 : issue de la sémiotique narrative, elle vise àdéterminer l’effet-valeur d’un texte, c’est-à-dire son système idéologique. L’étude met ici en évidence une valorisation du désir porté par le paraboliste, une vérité du texte située au plan existentiel. Une relecture du discours en termes d’effets est alors proposée et mesure l’effet parabole en texte puis hors texte. Délogé de son système idéologique habituel, le lecteur de Mt 13 est en effet conduit dans sa lecture à s’exposer aux paraboles qui, par l’imaginaire déployé, deviennent de véritables conductrices de réel. Les résonances, issues de l’interaction entre texte et lecteur, éveillent à une expérience parabolique dont le langage ne peut pas totalement rendre compte mais dont le récit garde les traces. L’espace susceptible d’être creusé par ce discours au cours de son appropriation par le lecteur peut ainsi devenir terre d’accueil pour "la parole du Royaume". / This study deals with parables’ discourse related in chapter 13 of Matthew’s Gospel. It questiones the way this corpus presents some values to the readers. In the first part, the research establishes the main interpretation’s axes of Mt 13 : redaction and sources, structure, attendances and parables’ fonction. This state of the art proposes to read Mt 13 following a dynamic relation with the reader. In the second part, a synchronic exegesis, then a diachronic exegesis are proposed and both specify the question of values based on the parabolic language and his theme, the Kingdom of heaven. In the third part, Vincent Jouve’s method of analysis (University of Reims) is applied to Matthew 13 : on the basis of narrative semiotic, it aims to determine the value-effect of a text, i.e. its ideologic system. At this stage, the study highlightes the desire’s valorization expressed by the parabolist, i.e. a truth of existential nature led by the story. A re-reading of the discourse in terms of effects is then proposed and measures the parable effect in text and out of text. Excluded from his usual ideologic system, the reader of Matthew 13 must indeed be confronted to parables : these promote the imaginery and make discover the real. Touched by the text, the reader can live a parabolic experience. This experience cannot be totally included by the langage but it leaves clues in the story. During the appropriation work of the reader, a meeting with the text can happen and "the word of Kingdom" can be received.

Magister Commercii - MCom / The primary objectives of this research are to determine whether indices constructed from fundamental attributes of ALSI constituents outperform indices weighted by market capitalisations; and whether the performance of fundamental indices could be explained by size and value risk factors. The examination period is 1st January 2000 to 31st December 2009. The JSE ALSI constituent’s fundamental attributes; book values, dividends, earnings and sales together with their market values are extracted from DataStream International. Indices are subsequently constructed according to share’s market values and the four aforementioned fundamental attributes as well as a composite metric. The composite metric is a combination of all four fundamental attributes. Fundamental indices are found to be more mean-variance efficient than cap-weighted indices, whilst displaying moderate value bias and minor size bias. Fundamental indices exhibit lower risk-adjusted returns when rebalanced less frequently, except for sales-weighted indices which justly capture undervalued shares that mean revert throughout the year. Fundamental indexation is therefore, adjudged to be superior to cap-weighted methods and only relatively affected by value effect

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-25T16:45:21Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Roberta Marin Faneco Saad.pdf: 3859117 bytes, checksum: 32f13a480366560a7c35c3492b2752ed (MD5) Previous issue date: 2009-09-02 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / The purpose of this dissertation is to investigate the existence of the value effect anomaly on Latin America stock market. The value effect is characterized by high performance of value portfolios (the latter containing with high yields stocks book-to-market, earnings to price and cashflow to price) than growth portfolios (the ones containing with low yields stocks for the same variables). The database is composed by common stocks listed at the main Stock Exchanges of five countries: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Mexico and Peru, from 2003 to 2008. This data was extracted from Bloomberg database. The employed test methodology was similar to the one developed and used by Fama e French (1998). The monthly return excess of the value and growth portfolios was calculated and compared by country and by Latin American market. Then ran up models of simple and multiple linear regressions in the search for explanation of changes in the returns of portfolios. The Latin American portfolios were formed of two ways: a) weighted average by the amounts negotiated in the stock exchanges of each countries of the monthly excess return of the portfolios by country; b) simple average of the monthly excess return of the portfolios by country. It was used statistical tests such as: t-Student for the comparison of the average return of the value and growth portfolios and the significance of the regression coefficients; Durbin-Watson test of autocorrelation of waste; and Kolmogorov-Smirnov test to verify normality of the series of data. The results indicated that, despite that the value portfolio presented returns higher than the growth portfolios and the market, it is not possible to prove the existence of the value effect over the Latin America market due to low statistics significance of test t. Besides, the CAPM model proved to be significative and superior to the APT two factors model in the explanation of the returns of the value and growth portfolios / O objetivo da presente dissertação é a verificação da existência da anomalia efeito valor no mercado acionário latinoamericano. O efeito valor caracteriza-se pelo desempenho superior das carteiras value (carteiras contendo ações com alta razão book-to-market, earnings to price e cashflow to price) em relação às carteiras growth (carteiras contendo ações com baixa razão para as mesmas variáveis). O estudo compreendeu as ações ordinárias listadas nas principais Bolsas de Valores de cinco países: Argentina, Brasil, Chile, México e Peru, no período de 2003 a 2008, cujos dados foram extraídos do banco de dados Bloomberg. A metodologia de teste utilizada foi semelhante àquela desenvolvida e aplicada por Fama e French (1998). Calculou-se e comparou-se os excessos de retornos mensais das carteiras value e growth por país e para o mercado latinoamericano. Em seguida, executou-se modelos de regressões lineares simples e múltipla na busca de explicação das variações dos retornos das carteiras. As carteiras formadas para o mercado latinoamericano foram compostas de duas formas: a) por meio de média aritmética ponderada, pelo montante negociado nas bolsas de valores dos respectivos países, dos excessos de retornos mensais das carteiras dos países; b) por meio de média aritmética simples dos excessos de retornos mensais das carteiras dos países. Foram utilizados testes estatísticos t-Student para comparação entre os retornos médios das carteiras value e growth e significância dos coeficientes das regressões; teste Durbin-Watson de autocorrelação dos resíduos; e teste de Kolmogorov-Smirnov para verificação de normalidade das séries de dados. Os resultados obtidos demonstram que, apesar das carteiras value apresentarem retornos superiores às carteiras growth e de mercado, não se pode comprovar a existência do efeito valor no mercado latinoamericano devido às baixas significâncias estatísticas do teste t. Além disso, o modelo CAPM mostrou-se significativo e superior ao modelo APT dois fatores na explicação dos retornos das carteiras value e growth