Concentration in the South African equity market and its implied restrictions on the long only equity fund manager’s opportunity set

South African Journal of Business Management

 
 
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Title Concentration in the South African equity market and its implied restrictions on the long only equity fund manager’s opportunity set
 
Creator Raubenheimer, H.
 
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Description South Afric's Equity market provides a large (in terms of volume) but concentrated investment environment. Domestic pension funds are restricted from diversifying globally and are thus faced with a restricted set of investment opportunities. This article describes and quantifies the extent of the concentration on the JSE historically and at present. The article describes the consequent limitations on long-only equity portfolio construction and the implications for the domestic long-only fund manager subject to various active weight limits. The analysis shows that the higher the allowable active bet sizes, the less consistently asset managers are able to implement their views and the less symmetric their response to forecasted excess returns can be. Consequently, the less competitive a long-only fund manager can be alongside hedge funds and similarly constrained long-short managers.
 
Publisher AOSIS
 
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Date 2010-12-31
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion —
Format application/pdf
Identifier 10.4102/sajbm.v41i4.526
 
Source South African Journal of Business Management; Vol 41, No 4 (2010); 1-10 2078-5976 2078-5585
 
Language eng
 
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Rights Copyright (c) 2018 H. Raubenheimer https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
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