Statistical arbitrage in South African equity markets

The dissertation implements a model driven statistical arbitrage strategy that uses the principal components from Principal Component Analysis as factors in a multi-factor stock model, to isolate the idiosyncratic component of returns, which is then modelled as an Ornstein Uhlenbeck process. The idi...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Masindi, Khuthadzo
Other Authors: Lubbe, Sugnet; Kotze, Kevin
Format: Dissertation
Language:English
Published: University of Cape Town 2015
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/11427/13427