| Summary: | Includes bibliographical references. === This thesis investigates the construction and performance of style indices on the JSE. It then demonstrates how a 'toolkit' of style indices can be used, together with conventional passive indices, as a set of building blocks for efficient portfolio construction. This study tests the performance of a variety of potential style indices representing 'size', 'value' and 'momentum' effects. Selected indices for each style together with JSE sector indices are subsequently utilised to replicate the returns obtained on actively managed domestic equity funds using Sharpe's (1988, 1992) style decomposition method. Finally, a 'toolkit' of selected style indices are employed as building blocks to construct mean-variance and mean-tracking error optimal portfolios at low cost.
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