Does better performance associate with managing more Unit Trust Fund?

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2007
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R. Santharen, Kaliammal
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This research has carried out to analyze the performance of Malaysian unit trust funds for the long-term periods. The period chosen for this research was from January 1990 to December 2001. The NAV values were obtained from 'The Star' and 'The Sun'ยท newspapers, published on monthly basis. The main objective of this study is to explore further on the unit trust performance and also whether the managing companies that managed more than one fund assures better returns to the investors. The KLCI and KLIBOR rate was used as market benchmark in this research. The study conducted by using regression test, correlation, one-way ANOVA and also Kruskal-Wallis for the different performance measurement on unit trust funds in Malaysia. Overall the results explained were not significant on number of fund managing companies with the performance of the unit trust fund. The test on risk, size and age were also not significant because it also didn't influence on the number of fund managing companies. There is no evidence showing that the performance of the unit trust companies is outperformed the market.
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Performance Associate , Unit Trust Fund
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