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Showing 1 to 20 of 163 for “"Johannesburg Stock Exchange"”.
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Market timing on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange
The concept of market timing is hardly new. Theoretical work on the predictability of return stretches back for over a century, with substantial empirical work emerging from the 1960s onwards. This study aims to extend the literature by focusing on whether it is possible for an investor, utilising …
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The weekend effect on the Johannesburg stock exchange
… Index, Industrial Index and Gold Index on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange.
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Momentum trading strategy on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange
… price corrections in the market, namely using a stock's price and moving average, ranking stocks based on prior returns, and allocating stocks as overbought and oversold. The strategies are employed on data comprising the top 60 stocks on the JSE as at August 2012. The period tested runs from …
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Evidence of return predictability on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange
We investigate return predictability on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE) with a particular emphasis on (a) the incidence and nature of linear and nonlinear serial dependence underlying the return generation process and (b) the consistency of return predictability between a stable and market …
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Does Pairs trading work on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange?
… a potentially profitable trading strategy on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange. Pairs trading is a quantitative based trading strategy, in which shares are paired up based on a historic price relationship and traded accordingly, in a contrarian manner, when they diverge from said historical …
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Investors' Fear and Herding in the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE)
Investors herd when they follow the investment decisions of other market participants and ignore their own private information, causing asset valuations to deviate from their fundamentals. This paper examines herding in the South African equity market by examining the impact of investor fear on …
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Time diversification and holding periods on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange
… the existence of time diversification on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE), with the goal of providing investor guidance toward their optimal investment horizon on the JSE Focusing on the Random Walk and Mean Reversion Models, a variety of tests were employed to identify serial correlation …
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Residual momentum and investor sentiment on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE)
… portfolios were constructed from the largest 160 stocks on the JSE on a quarterly basis over the last 27 years in order to compare the styles' performances. In addition, momentum returns were compared across different sentiment states, defined based on the level of investor sentiment as proxied by …
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Short-term share price overreaction : evidence from the Johannesburg Stock Exchange
… overreaction (over 1 and 5-day periods) on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE) over the period July 2000 to June 2015. Furthermore, periods of financial crisis were isolated from the full sample period and tested separately, in order to assess whether periods of financial instability affect …
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A multivariate analysis of shares listed on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange
… problems concerning shares listed on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange. In Chapter 1 the two techniques and two classificatory problems are introduced and their context within the general structure of portfolio theory is explained. Chapter 2 gives a theoretical overview of the first …
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Market timing on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange under different market conditions
The objective of this study is to evaluate the performance and risk characteristics of three market timing strategies, namely traditional, bull and bear timing, and how different market conditions affect these strategies. The market is segmented into bullish and bearish phases and three independent …
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Is there a Gross Profitability Premium on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange?
… a gross-profit-to-assets premium exists on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE) by constructing portfolios over a 16-year time period from 2002 to 2018. The use of gross-profit-toassets as a stock selection tool has been found to be a viable investment strategy in some developed markets. …
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Volatility spillover between Exchange-Traded Funds on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange
Growth in the Exchange-Traded Fund industry (ETF) has been exponential in the past decade. International research on this topic has been extensive, with less focus given to the local Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE). This research aims to extend the existing literature on the JSE, particularly …
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Artificial neural networks to predict share prices on the Johannesburg stock exchange
The use of historical data to build models for stock market prediction has been extensively researched. Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) bring new opportunities for predicting stock markets, and is now one of the leading techniques used for time series and specifically stock market prediction. …
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Evaluating value at risk models: an application to the Johannesburg Stock Exchange
The management of market risk is an essential determinant of the stability of a financial institution, and by extension, of the overall financial system. There are various variables which impact on the accuracy of a market risk management system. For various reasons which are discussed in this …
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An Analysis of the Low-Volatility Anomaly on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange
… the unexpected outperformance of low-volatility stocks compared to high-volatility stocks over the long-term. This dissertation investigates the low-volatility anomaly and its presence on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE). Possible reasons behind why low-volatility stocks consistently …
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The impact of macroeconomic variables on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE) indices
… relationship between macroeconomic factors and stock market index levels for selected indices through a structural model which consists of a security valuation approach in the form of Dividend Discount Model(DDM) and an Engle and Granger cointegration model. The macroeconomic variables examined …
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Stock price reactions to dividend changes : evidence from the Johannesburg Stock Exchange
This research paper examines stock price reactions to the changes in cash dividend payments for mature companies listed on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE). Prior South African research studies have employed the Market Model and Mean-Adjusted Return Model of event study to estimate "normal …
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Variables determining shareholder value of industrial companies listed on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange
It is widely accepted that the primary objective or goal of a firm is to maximise the value of its shareholders' equity. An increase in wealth increases the satisfaction of any financial market participant, or in this case, of any shareholder. In management's attempts and decision-making to …
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