How much diversification potential is there in a single market? Evidence from the Australian Stock Exchange

Libin Yang, William Rea and Alethea Rea

Working Papers in Economics from University of Canterbury, Department of Economics and Finance

Abstract: We present four methods of assessing the diversification potential within a stock market, two of these are based on principal component analysis. They were applied to the Australian stock exchange for the years 2000 to 2014 and all show a consistent picture. The potential for diversification declined almost monotonically in the three years prior to the 2008 financial crisis. On one of the measures the diversification potential declined even further in the 2011 European debt crisis and the American credit downgrade.

Keywords: Principal component analysis; stock selection; diversification; stock portfolios (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: G11 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 19 pages
Date: 2015-03-17
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