Browsing Magister Commercii - MCom (Business and Finance) by Author "Hsieh, Heng-Hsing"
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Application of cross-sector style analysis of South African equities in active portfolio management
Small, Wayne (University of the Western Cape, 2015)A distinctive phenomenon on the JSE Securities Exchange (JSE) is the market segmentation between the resource sector and the financial and industrial sectors. Criticisms also arise from employing a capitalization-weighted ... -
Application of fundamental indexation for South African equities
Engel, Joswil Scott (University of the Western Cape, 2014)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 ... -
Determining the enterprise success factors within a select group of retailing micro enterprises in Site C Khayelitsha
Naidoo, Hilton Abraham (University of the Western Cape, 2016)The research identified Site C area of Khayelitsha, a township in the Western Cape province of South Africa, as the case study. Khayelitsha has an estimated population of 1.2 million people, and has about 22 sub-sections ... -
Fundamental indexation and mean reversion on the Taiwanese equity market
Fongwa, Emmanuel C. (University of the Western Cape, 2015)The equity market has a long memory of indexing. The market portfolio is a capweighted index that weights stocks based on the market capitalisation of the stocks constituting the index and has been upheld by modern portfolio ... -
Perfomance evaluation of the tracking ability and pricing efficiency of Exchange Traded Funds (ETFS) in South Africa
Daswa, Khumbudzo Ashley (University of the Western cape, 2016)Since the listing of the Satrix 40 in November 2000, Exchange Traded Fund (ETFs) have grown to become an investment vehicle of choice amongst retail and institutional investors of the Johannesburg Securities Exchange (JSE). ... -
Potential gains from sector timing on the JSE
Carlie, Mugammad Mujaheed (University of Western Cape, 2017)This study investigates the effectiveness of sector timing on the JSE by evaluating the likely outcomes from switching between the resource and financial-industrial indices using Monte Carlo simulations over the period ... -
The role and the functions of the Alternative Exchange (AltX) and its contribution to the development of the small and medium-sized enterprises (SMMEs) in South Africa
Mtiki, Xolisa (University of the Western Cape, 2019)Motivated by the number of firms that migrate from the Alternative Exchange (AltX) to the JSE main board, this research undertakes to examine the role and the functions of the AltX and its contribution to the development ...