• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.16 no.5
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• pp.185-197
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• 2018

The purpose of this study is to analyze the Korean ETF market, which is experiencing a rapid increase in the number of stocks, to identify the degree of investment efficiency and to present investment directions. The methodology and procedure are ETF yield, change trends, correlation and regression analysis of the ETFs traded between 2010 and 2018. As a result, the total return of domestic ETFs was 3.51%, which was lower than the KOSPI growth rate and the return on equity ETFs was 4.03%, which was low. Leverage ETF yields were below 3%, which was low. The return on bond and currency ETFs was less than 1%. The most profitable ETFs were index ETFs, followed by domestic and leveraged ETFs. This study has contributed to establishing considerations when purchasing ETFs from the viewpoint of investors. Future research will present the direction of ETF investment more precisely.

• Journal of Service Research and Studies
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• v.9 no.1
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• pp.51-71
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• 2019

The purpose of this research is to analyze the ETF market, which has a large increase in the number of listed shares and the market capitalization, and to identify the investment effects of ETFs. The study procedure and method used to calculate the return and change trend of ETFs for the sample of the transaction information, the transaction amount, and the market capitalization for the period from 2010 to 2018, and performed correlation and regression analysis. As a result, the ETF's total return was 2.11%, the domestic underwriting market ETF yield was 2.39%, and the stock ETF yield was 2.59%, which was lower than the KOSPI 200 index and the KOSPI 200 index. Index ETF was 2.63%, followed by stock ETF and oversea underwriting market ETF. The problem with ETF investment is that the annual return of ETFs and domestic ETFs is as low as 2%, which is not enough for investors to expect more than 5%. The study contributes to the realization of the ETF by analyzing the actual effect of the investment and to establishing considerations when buying ETFs from the viewpoint of investors. The direction of the research is to accumulate more ETF data and present the investment direction precisely.

• The Journal of Asian Finance, Economics and Business
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• v.6 no.2
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• pp.9-13
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• 2019

The paper aims to investigate the performance of domestic Saudi Arabian ETFs. ETFs are investment vehicles in vogue. These instruments were the first levers for investors allowing them to enter some markets that have been highly protected or out of reach. Saudi Arabia, which has been promoted as an emerging country by MSCI, seeks to attract more foreign investors. The first ETFs were launched in the years 2010-2011. Even though their number has not increased since then, there is a desire to attract a large number of investors. We use premiums/discounts analysis, standard risk-return models, and tracking errors measurements to assess how closely their replicate the underlying benchmark based on monthly data. The results indicate that out of the three funds investigated two are slightly traded at premium, while the latter exhibit a price discount. However, tracking errors are at minimum for all funds suggesting that they track well the benchmark index. Further, the Jensen's model shows that alphas are negative or null, and betas capture largely the systematic risk which is consistent with index investing strategies. Finally, traditional risk-adjusted measures of performance are used to compare ETFs, and results exhibit negative ratios showing that portfolios achieve lower return than the risk-free rate.