Asx Portfolio Assignment
Executive Summary
The objective of this report is to construct and evaluate two portfolios, index tracking portfolio and speculative capital growth portfolio both began their lives on 21st April 2008 and ended on 20th May 2008. The purpose of the former portfolio is to replicate the return on the ASX/S&P 500 New All Ordinaries price index and the latter one is formed aiming at outperforming the market and maximizing the capital gains.
11 stocks have been selected for the tracker portfolio. The criteria for such selection are through capitalization-based sampling and stratified sampling. For capital growth portfolio, 8 stocks representing five major Australian industry sectors have been selected. Brief overview of all selected companies can be found in the appendix.
Next, both portfolios are evaluated using three performance measures: Sharpe’s Index, Treynor’s Index and Jensen’s Alpha. Over the observation period, the both portfolio has modestly replicated the AOI and the performance of capital growth portfolio is relatively better than Index portfolio.
Part 1 Comparison of Growth Rate of the portfolios and the market
Index Tracking Portfolio
Overview
The purpose of Index Tracking Portfolio is to find a selection of shares, within a manageable number, where the performance of the portfolio can match with or out perform the performance of whole market. Three major aspects, market capitalization ratio, company’s historical share price performance and industry’s performance, were used to decide the portfolio composition. Eleven shares were selected from ASX50 and this portfolio will be analyzed, discussed and compared with ASX All Ordinaries Index performance in this report.
Portfolio Composition
Steps to construct the Index Tracking Portfolio
Portfolio was developed with following steps:
1. Collected ASX50 companies’ market capitalization rate and industries information for each company.
2. Briefly analyzed each
The objective of this report is to construct and evaluate two portfolios, index tracking portfolio and speculative capital growth portfolio both began their lives on 21st April 2008 and ended on 20th May 2008. The purpose of the former portfolio is to replicate the return on the ASX/S&P 500 New All Ordinaries price index and the latter one is formed aiming at outperforming the market and maximizing the capital gains.
11 stocks have been selected for the tracker portfolio. The criteria for such selection are through capitalization-based sampling and stratified sampling. For capital growth portfolio, 8 stocks representing five major Australian industry sectors have been selected. Brief overview of all selected companies can be found in the appendix.
Next, both portfolios are evaluated using three performance measures: Sharpe’s Index, Treynor’s Index and Jensen’s Alpha. Over the observation period, the both portfolio has modestly replicated the AOI and the performance of capital growth portfolio is relatively better than Index portfolio.
Part 1 Comparison of Growth Rate of the portfolios and the market
Index Tracking Portfolio
Overview
The purpose of Index Tracking Portfolio is to find a selection of shares, within a manageable number, where the performance of the portfolio can match with or out perform the performance of whole market. Three major aspects, market capitalization ratio, company’s historical share price performance and industry’s performance, were used to decide the portfolio composition. Eleven shares were selected from ASX50 and this portfolio will be analyzed, discussed and compared with ASX All Ordinaries Index performance in this report.
Portfolio Composition
Steps to construct the Index Tracking Portfolio
Portfolio was developed with following steps:
1. Collected ASX50 companies’ market capitalization rate and industries information for each company.
2. Briefly analyzed each