Essays about: "investment preference"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 35 essays containing the words investment preference.
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1. Beyond the Crisis: A Safe Haven Analysis : Empirical Insights into the Divergence of Gold and Bonds for Portfolio Hedging
University essay from Umeå universitet/FöretagsekonomiAbstract : Purpose: This thesis investigates the relationship concerning traditional safe haven assets, gold and US 10-year treasury bonds during periods of market instability, specifically during the economic concerns raised by the COVID-19 pandemic. It assesses the hedging and safe haven properties of these assets and their dynamic nature throughout two periods of unconventional monetary and fiscal policy measures by the Federal Reserve & US Congress respectively. READ MORE
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2. Financial Literacy, Environmental Literacy, and Environmental Related Financial Preference - The Case of China
University essay from Handelshögskolan i Stockholm/Institutionen för finansiell ekonomiAbstract : This paper describes a survey of a sample of Chinese individuals regarding their financial literacy, environmental literacy, attitudes toward ESG, and environmental related financial preference to investigate if pro-investment attitudes are related to financial decision-making. The data revealed that individuals with higher financial knowledge (FL) also have higher environmental knowledge (EL) and the effect is stronger among consumers who incorporate sustainability factors into their investment selection. READ MORE
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3. Preferences for carbon information : a Discrete Choice Experiment with Swedish non-professional investors
University essay from SLU/Dept. of EconomicsAbstract : GHG targets, an aspect of carbon disclosure are an integral part of corporate carbon management and overall carbon accounting. GHG targets and the target-related attributes – including target difficulty, target progress, and external validation of target as a science-based target, along with past GHG emission performance are attributes related to carbon information that is increasingly included in the corporate carbon disclosures. READ MORE
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4. Constructing a Social Profitability Index: Socially Responsible Investing in Electric Utilities
University essay from Handelshögskolan i Stockholm/Institutionen för finansiell ekonomiAbstract : Building on a theory about the Social Profitability Index (SPI), this paper is the first to construct an SPI in practice ranking investment opportunities based on social and financial returns within the electric utility industry. The social return is the investor-preference weighted social gain from avoiding carbon emissions by changing to renewable production technology in a firm. READ MORE
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5. Introduction of the Swedish Investment Saving Account and Individual Stock Investment Behavior
University essay from Handelshögskolan i Stockholm/Institutionen för nationalekonomiAbstract : The Swedish government introduced a new saving platform named as the Swedish Investment Saving Account (ISK) in January 2012 in order to simplify the taxation on the capital income of security investment. Compared to the conventional accounts (CA), ISK is taxed at a flat-rate based on the balance in the account, and there is no other taxation related to security sales and dividend distribution. READ MORE
