An investigation into performance persistence amongst South African general equity unit trusts funds - for the period 2000 to 2011

This paper updates aspects of the original study done by Collinet in his 2001 UCT Masters Thesis “Characterising Persistence of Performance amongst South African General Equity Unit Trusts”, in which he tested performance persistence over the period 1980 to 1999. This updated study focuses on testing whether the performance of a unit trust fund in one period can be used to predict the performance of that unit trust fund in a subsequent period. The overall results of the updated study were comparable to the Collinet (2001) study, although in the Collinet study evidence of short-term performance persistence was found when holding periods of 6 months were tested. The results for the 1, 2 and 3 year holding periods tested were inconclusive and no evidence was found that performance persists over any of those holding periods...

Grantor dc:publisher.institution

Department of Finance and Tax

Year dc:date.issued

2012

Author dc:creator

• Thomas, Shawn

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• West, Darron

Language dc:language.iso

eng

Handle dc:identifier.uri

http://hdl.handle.net/11427/12074

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:open.uct.ac.za:11427/12074