Active or Passive Funds: An empirical study of which management strategy gives the highest risk-adjusted return
2022 (English)Independent thesis Basic level (degree of Bachelor), 10 credits / 15 HE credits
Student thesis
Abstract [en]
This thesis aims to investigate whether active or passive fund management provides the most risk-adjusted return over a given ten-year period on the Swedish market. The investigation is conducted for 21 active funds and 7 passive funds by using closing prices for all funds for all weeks between 2012-01-01 and 2021-12-31. Different performance measures have been used in this thesis, to gain a better picture of actual performance of each fund. The performance measures used are, Jensen’s alpha, beta, Sharpe Treynor, Information and Sortino ratio. Followed up with calculation of the Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM) and analyzing it to the total return for the funds. The data provided is retrieved from Thomson Reuters Datastream and with the help of Microsoft Excel the data will be processed. Also provide developed performance measures for all the funds included. Also, analysis whether active or passive managed funds are more favorable for the investors are included in the thesis. After calculating the performance measures for all funds, is has been shown that active managed funds performed better than passive funds and the benchmark index. However, when running a regression to see the relationship between the total net return of active funds and CAMP, then comparing it to the relationship between the total net return of passive funds and CAMP passive funds. It turned out that passive managed funds performed better, and this with statical significance.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
2022. , p. 39
Keywords [en]
Passive funds, Active funds, Risk-adjusting, Index funds
National Category
Economics
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:hv:diva-18624Local ID: EXC513OAI: oai:DiVA.org:hv-18624DiVA, id: diva2:1674485
Subject / course
Nationalekonomi
Educational program
Mäklarekonomprogrammet, fastighet och finans
Supervisors
Examiners
2022-06-222022-06-222022-06-22Bibliographically approved