The effect of the rand exchange rate on the JSE Top-40 stocks: An analysis for the practitioner

South African Journal of Business Management

 
 
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Title The effect of the rand exchange rate on the JSE Top-40 stocks: An analysis for the practitioner
 
Creator Barr, G. D.I. Kantor, B. S. Holdsworth, C. G.
 
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Description This paper investigates the relationship between the returns of the ALSI Top 40 companies and changes in the Rand-Dollar exchange rate. Each of the Top 40 companies was grouped, a priori, according to their global positioning vis-à-vis income and costs into four main categories; namely, Rand-hedge, Rand-leverage, Rand-play and Mixed. The expected reaction of each of the shares within these categories to movements in the exchange rate was in almost all cases confirmed by GARCH adjusted regression analysis over two separate periods, February 1999 to January 2002 and February 2002 to August 2005. Ranked t-statistics were then used to gauge the consistency of the risk-adjusted magnitude of share price changes with respect to changes in the exchange rate. This ranking allows investors to construct customised portfolios according to their expectation of future exchange rate movements and to more fully understand the exchange rate risk that their current portfolio may have.
 
Publisher AOSIS
 
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Date 2007-03-31
 
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Identifier 10.4102/sajbm.v38i1.577
 
Source South African Journal of Business Management; Vol 38, No 1 (2007); 45-58 2078-5976 2078-5585
 
Language eng
 
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Rights Copyright (c) 2018 G. D.I. Barr, B. S. Kantor, C. G. Holdsworth https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
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