Interaction effects within factor investing in a South African context

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dc.contributor.advisorMohamed, Obeiden_ZA
dc.contributor.authorVarejes, Lucen_ZA
dc.date.accessioned2017-10-04T14:27:42Z
dc.date.available2017-10-04T14:27:42Z
dc.date.issued2017en_ZA
dc.description.abstractThe notion of portfolio tilting towards fundamental factors has been the subject of many empirical studies over the last few decades. With this being said, there is limited literature on the interaction effects between these individual factors. This dissertation focuses specifically on quality, value, low volatility and momentum and determines which factors have the largest impact on portfolio return. In addition to testing these single factor portfolios, the various interaction effects between the individual factors are investigated. This framework is divided into two parts. The first, is an empirical study on the JSE Top 100 over the 15 year period beginning September 2001 and ending September 2016. Quarterly and monthly rebalancing as well as transaction costs of 100 basis points (per trade) have been employed to mimic realistic investment management. Much of the framework used to incorporate these factors is adapted from Bender and Wang (2016) who tested these interactions on the S&P 500. The second, involves the construction of a controlled market model in an attempt to provide mathematical justification to the framework. The controlled model simulates stock price paths, in a Mil'shtein (1974) fashion, using Geometric Brownian Motion with a stochastic alpha component added to the drift. Factors are simulated randomly using correlated uniform distributions. The controlled model uses realistic market parameters and constructs the factor portfolio in the same manner as the empirical study.en_ZA
dc.identifier.apacitationVarejes, L. (2017). <i>Interaction effects within factor investing in a South African context</i>. (Thesis). University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Commerce ,Division of Actuarial Science. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/11427/25531en_ZA
dc.identifier.chicagocitationVarejes, Luc. <i>"Interaction effects within factor investing in a South African context."</i> Thesis., University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Commerce ,Division of Actuarial Science, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/25531en_ZA
dc.identifier.citationVarejes, L. 2017. Interaction effects within factor investing in a South African context. University of Cape Town.en_ZA
dc.identifier.ris TY - Thesis / Dissertation AU - Varejes, Luc AB - The notion of portfolio tilting towards fundamental factors has been the subject of many empirical studies over the last few decades. With this being said, there is limited literature on the interaction effects between these individual factors. This dissertation focuses specifically on quality, value, low volatility and momentum and determines which factors have the largest impact on portfolio return. In addition to testing these single factor portfolios, the various interaction effects between the individual factors are investigated. This framework is divided into two parts. The first, is an empirical study on the JSE Top 100 over the 15 year period beginning September 2001 and ending September 2016. Quarterly and monthly rebalancing as well as transaction costs of 100 basis points (per trade) have been employed to mimic realistic investment management. Much of the framework used to incorporate these factors is adapted from Bender and Wang (2016) who tested these interactions on the S&P 500. The second, involves the construction of a controlled market model in an attempt to provide mathematical justification to the framework. The controlled model simulates stock price paths, in a Mil'shtein (1974) fashion, using Geometric Brownian Motion with a stochastic alpha component added to the drift. Factors are simulated randomly using correlated uniform distributions. The controlled model uses realistic market parameters and constructs the factor portfolio in the same manner as the empirical study. DA - 2017 DB - OpenUCT DP - University of Cape Town LK - https://open.uct.ac.za PB - University of Cape Town PY - 2017 T1 - Interaction effects within factor investing in a South African context TI - Interaction effects within factor investing in a South African context UR - http://hdl.handle.net/11427/25531 ER - en_ZA
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11427/25531
dc.identifier.vancouvercitationVarejes L. Interaction effects within factor investing in a South African context. [Thesis]. University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Commerce ,Division of Actuarial Science, 2017 [cited yyyy month dd]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/11427/25531en_ZA
dc.language.isoengen_ZA
dc.publisher.departmentDivision of Actuarial Scienceen_ZA
dc.publisher.facultyFaculty of Commerceen_ZA
dc.publisher.institutionUniversity of Cape Town
dc.subject.otherMathematical Financeen_ZA
dc.titleInteraction effects within factor investing in a South African contexten_ZA
dc.typeMaster Thesis
dc.type.qualificationlevelMasters
dc.type.qualificationnameMPhilen_ZA
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