Impact of macroeconomic variables on financial performance of unit trust in Malaysia / Muhammad Fadhli Abdullah

Unit trust fund has been growing exponentially since 2007. This paper investigates the relationship between unit trust's net asset value (NAV) growth as the focus variable along with other control variables such as, Brent oil prices, Malaysia Interest Rate, USD/MYR exchange rate and inflation r...

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Main Author:	Abdullah, Muhammad Fadhli
Format:	Thesis
Language:	English
Published:	2022
Subjects:	Interest rates
Online Access:	https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/98404/1/98404.pdf
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spelling	my-uitm-ir.984042024-08-27T18:19:44Z Impact of macroeconomic variables on financial performance of unit trust in Malaysia / Muhammad Fadhli Abdullah 2022 Abdullah, Muhammad Fadhli Interest rates Investment companies. Investment trusts. Mutual funds Unit trust fund has been growing exponentially since 2007. This paper investigates the relationship between unit trust's net asset value (NAV) growth as the focus variable along with other control variables such as, Brent oil prices, Malaysia Interest Rate, USD/MYR exchange rate and inflation rate. Revealing the relationship will give us the right steps to build a stable index. This research presents a study of unit trust performance from the year 2000 to the year 2020. The whole year that has been observed for this research is twenty years. Moreover, this research uses secondary sources, and the data and information have been obtained via databases, other publications, and articles. All of the information gathered came from Google Scholar, Trading Economic, and Investing.com. In addition, the study employs descriptive analysis, correlation analysis, regression analysis, F-test, T-test, multicollinearity test and coefficient of determination (R2) to determine whether the independent variables are significant or insignificant towards the Malaysia unit trust performance. Therefore, it is concluded that the most important factors affecting the performance of unit trusts are the exchange rate, inflation rate and Brent crude price. This index is unaffected by interest rates in Malaysia. 2022 Thesis https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/98404/ https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/98404/1/98404.pdf text en public degree Universiti Teknologi MARA, Johor Faculty of Business and Management Md Lazan, Rohanizan Samsuddin, Syamsul
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spellingShingle	Interest rates Interest rates Abdullah, Muhammad Fadhli Impact of macroeconomic variables on financial performance of unit trust in Malaysia / Muhammad Fadhli Abdullah
description	Unit trust fund has been growing exponentially since 2007. This paper investigates the relationship between unit trust's net asset value (NAV) growth as the focus variable along with other control variables such as, Brent oil prices, Malaysia Interest Rate, USD/MYR exchange rate and inflation rate. Revealing the relationship will give us the right steps to build a stable index. This research presents a study of unit trust performance from the year 2000 to the year 2020. The whole year that has been observed for this research is twenty years. Moreover, this research uses secondary sources, and the data and information have been obtained via databases, other publications, and articles. All of the information gathered came from Google Scholar, Trading Economic, and Investing.com. In addition, the study employs descriptive analysis, correlation analysis, regression analysis, F-test, T-test, multicollinearity test and coefficient of determination (R2) to determine whether the independent variables are significant or insignificant towards the Malaysia unit trust performance. Therefore, it is concluded that the most important factors affecting the performance of unit trusts are the exchange rate, inflation rate and Brent crude price. This index is unaffected by interest rates in Malaysia.
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author	Abdullah, Muhammad Fadhli
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title	Impact of macroeconomic variables on financial performance of unit trust in Malaysia / Muhammad Fadhli Abdullah
title_short	Impact of macroeconomic variables on financial performance of unit trust in Malaysia / Muhammad Fadhli Abdullah
title_full	Impact of macroeconomic variables on financial performance of unit trust in Malaysia / Muhammad Fadhli Abdullah
title_fullStr	Impact of macroeconomic variables on financial performance of unit trust in Malaysia / Muhammad Fadhli Abdullah
title_full_unstemmed	Impact of macroeconomic variables on financial performance of unit trust in Malaysia / Muhammad Fadhli Abdullah
title_sort	impact of macroeconomic variables on financial performance of unit trust in malaysia / muhammad fadhli abdullah
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Impact of macroeconomic variables on financial performance of unit trust in Malaysia / Muhammad Fadhli Abdullah

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