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Identifying and correcting misclassified South African equity trusts using style analysis

Bibliography: leaves 116-123. / The concept of style analysis is rapidly spreading in the money management business. In addition to it's use in the areas of benchmarking, portfolio structuring, risk control and performance attribution, style analysis has also been shown to be a powerful tool for identifying and evaluating the groupings and classification of investment portfolios. This study is based on an iterative application of William Sharpe's technique of returns-based style analysis. In essence the technique is used to create purified unit trust style indices in order to verify the existing classification of equity unit trusts. The technique is extended for the purpose of confirming the returns-based misclassified funds through testing the fit of combinations of style factor returns derived from a composition-based factor model.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:netd.ac.za/oai:union.ndltd.org:uct/oai:localhost:11427/9944
Date January 1999
CreatorsRobertson, M
ContributorsFirer, Colin, Bradfield, Dave
PublisherUniversity of Cape Town, Faculty of Commerce, School of Management Studies
Source SetsSouth African National ETD Portal
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeMaster Thesis, Masters, MBusSc
Formatapplication/pdf

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