การศึกษาเปรียบเทียบอัตราผลตอบแทนการลงทุนของกองทุนหุ้นในประเทศไทย / อติคุณ พีรยวัฒนา = A COMPARISON OF RETURN ON EQUITY FUND INVESTMENTIN THAILAND / Artikhun Perayawatana
The purpose of this special project is to study the performance of equity funds in Thailand. Especially equity funds that have an active strategy in order to compare with the benchmark which in the return of the Stock Exchange of Thailand index (SET Index). In addition, the study of various interesting factors which are fund size, asset management company and tax benefits whether these factors are able to classify the ability to generate returns for the fund or not, by separating the fund into 2 groups from 161 funds. The data including Net Asset Value (NAV) and dividend payment of fund were collected from 1 January 2013 to 31 December 2018 for a period of 6 years. The results was found that there was no significant difference in the average rate of return of the fund group that divided by each factors. Therefore it is unable to classify the ability to generate returns of funds with these factors. In addition, it was also found that there was no significant difference in the average rate of return between the active fund and the market throughout the study period. Therefore, the investment through active funds in Thailand are not different with index funds or passive funds.