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Item Internal liquidity, capital structure and firm profitability: a case for the South African listed real estate industry(2013-07-26) Cook, Adam BarryThis study analyses data for the top ten listed real-estate firms in South Africa to examine the relationships that exist between Internal Liquidity, Capital Structure and Firm Profitability. The ten firms under study represent 79% of the industry by market capitalisation. Other than in six unique cases out of the thirty regressions run, results show that there is little relationship between the variables. These six however, all fall within the test of Internal Liquidity on the firm’s Capital Structure. Results indicate that the level of Internal Liquidity has explanatory power on the level of debt used by the listed real-estate firm. Interestingly, results also show that the market’s perception of a listed real-estate firm is independent of its capital structure and its cash on hand. It is further implied that firms in South Africa with property as the majority asset, are under-geared as a result. This study supports the stakeholder co-investment theory to explain the low average debt levels in South Africa.Item The diversification potential of securitized real estate for mixed portfolios in South Africa(2013-07-25) McDonald, Wendy LeeResearch indicates that investment in un-securitised private real estate in both developed and emerging economies exhibits inflation hedging potential and provides diversification benefits for mixed-asset portfolios, reducing the risk of portfolios that contain mostly common stocks and bonds. This paper examines the risk diversification potential of securitised property funds for investment portfolios comprising traditional asset classes such as common stocks, bonds and cash instruments in the South African context – to establish if they exhibit the same characteristics as un-securitised private real estate. The results indicate that including securitised property funds in a portfolio comprised of traditional assets reduces unsystematic risk in a portfolio by a significant amount. We also assess the affecters of variability in returns of PUT and PLS funds. The results suggest that the variability in PUT and PLS returns can be explained by both the variability in the equity and debt markets (measured by the ALSI and ALBI), and the variability in direct property returns. Importantly, we find that PUT and PLS market pricing is representative of the underlying asset class pricing (direct real estate prices).