Performance of Property Listed Companies in Malaysia : 1996 - 2007

This thesis examines on the performance of listed property companies in Malaysia within three sub-periods: pre-crisis, during crisis and post-crisis. The period of this study started from 1996 to 2007. By using Sharpe Index, Adjusted Sharpe Index, Treynor Index, Jensen Index and Adjusted Jensen Ind...

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Main Author: Wan Marazah, Wan Zahari
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Published: 2008
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spelling my-uum-etd.2982013-07-24T12:06:34Z Performance of Property Listed Companies in Malaysia : 1996 - 2007 2008-04-25 Wan Marazah, Wan Zahari College of Business (COB) Faculty of Finance and Banking HD1361-1395.5 Real Estate Business This thesis examines on the performance of listed property companies in Malaysia within three sub-periods: pre-crisis, during crisis and post-crisis. The period of this study started from 1996 to 2007. By using Sharpe Index, Adjusted Sharpe Index, Treynor Index, Jensen Index and Adjusted Jensen Index, the result of this study shows that the performance of listed property companies over-performed the aggregate market or Kuala Lumpur Composite Index (KLCI) and Kuala Lumpur Property Index (KLPI). Further examination on the performance of the property companies in the three sub-periods shows there was a significant difference in the performance of the property listed companies as compared to the KLCI and KLPI before, during and after the financial crisis 1997. An obvious observation in the result is that most of the companies listed under property sector as well as the aggregate market as a whole and the property index were showing an average negative return. This would mean that investors and fund managers would need to take extra caution to include property stocks in their portfolio. As for the regulators, more efforts needed to be done to boost this sector. 2008-04 Thesis https://etd.uum.edu.my/298/ https://etd.uum.edu.my/298/1/Wan_Marazah_Wan_Zahari.pdf application/pdf eng validuser https://etd.uum.edu.my/298/2/Wan_Marazah_Wan_Zahari.pdf application/pdf eng public masters masters Universiti Utara Malaysia
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topic HD1361-1395.5 Real Estate Business
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Wan Marazah, Wan Zahari
Performance of Property Listed Companies in Malaysia : 1996 - 2007
description This thesis examines on the performance of listed property companies in Malaysia within three sub-periods: pre-crisis, during crisis and post-crisis. The period of this study started from 1996 to 2007. By using Sharpe Index, Adjusted Sharpe Index, Treynor Index, Jensen Index and Adjusted Jensen Index, the result of this study shows that the performance of listed property companies over-performed the aggregate market or Kuala Lumpur Composite Index (KLCI) and Kuala Lumpur Property Index (KLPI). Further examination on the performance of the property companies in the three sub-periods shows there was a significant difference in the performance of the property listed companies as compared to the KLCI and KLPI before, during and after the financial crisis 1997. An obvious observation in the result is that most of the companies listed under property sector as well as the aggregate market as a whole and the property index were showing an average negative return. This would mean that investors and fund managers would need to take extra caution to include property stocks in their portfolio. As for the regulators, more efforts needed to be done to boost this sector.
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author Wan Marazah, Wan Zahari
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title Performance of Property Listed Companies in Malaysia : 1996 - 2007
title_short Performance of Property Listed Companies in Malaysia : 1996 - 2007
title_full Performance of Property Listed Companies in Malaysia : 1996 - 2007
title_fullStr Performance of Property Listed Companies in Malaysia : 1996 - 2007
title_full_unstemmed Performance of Property Listed Companies in Malaysia : 1996 - 2007
title_sort performance of property listed companies in malaysia : 1996 - 2007
granting_institution Universiti Utara Malaysia
granting_department College of Business (COB)
publishDate 2008
url https://etd.uum.edu.my/298/1/Wan_Marazah_Wan_Zahari.pdf
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