Investigation of factor rotation routines in principal component analysis of stock returns

Includes bibliographical references. === This paper investigates rotation routines that will produce uncorrelated rotated principal components for a dataset of stock returns, in an attempt to identify the macroeconomic factors that best explain the variability among risk-adjusted stock returns on th...

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Main Author: Weimar, Nicole
Other Authors: Bosman, Petrus
Format: Dissertation
Language:English
Published: University of Cape Town 2014
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/11427/8533