Essays about: "time-varying return"

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  1. 1. Beyond Profits: Exploring the Investment Styles and Risk-Adjusted Returns of ESG-Driven Portfolios

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    Author : Alexander Olsson; Jonathan Taimory; [2023-07-06]
    Keywords : Risk-adjusted Returns; Investment Styles; Environmental; Social and Governance ESG ;

    Abstract : This study uses daily data to examine how different ESG implementations affect performance and portfolio characteristics. With a non-homogenous view of how ESG investing is defined, ten different value-weighted portfolios are constructed. The geographical focus is the US market, with the S&P 500 total return index (SPXTR) as the screening universe. READ MORE

  3. 2. Testing the Adaptive Market Hypothesis on the Swedish Stock Market - Empirical evidence between 1990-2019

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    Author : Jacob Allestam; Filip Sjöberg; [2023-06-29]
    Keywords : Adaptive market hypothesis; market efficiency; market conditions; return predictability; trading strategy;

    Abstract : This study examines if the adaptive market hypothesis holds for the Swedish stock market between 1990 and 2019. We use Affärsvärldens Generalindex and test for time-varying return predictability by implementing a variance ratio test and an autocorrelation test. To track how market efficiency evolves over time we use a two-year moving subsample. READ MORE

  4. 3. Financing the Nordic Energy Transition: An Empirical Analysis of Leverage, Pricing and Return Expectations in Renewable Energy Transactions

    University essay from Handelshögskolan i Stockholm/Institutionen för finansiell ekonomi

    Author : Franziska Grünthaner; [2023]
    Keywords : Buyouts; Leverage; Valuation; Renewable Energy; Infrastructure Investment;

    Abstract : This study examines whether leverage and pricing in transactions of renewable energy infrastructure assets are impacted by the same factors that have been found to determine financial structures in buyout transactions. It primarily draws on a proprietary data set of 261 wind and solar photovoltaic (PV) transactions in the Nordics between 2011 and 2023 and explores the effect of acquirer-, asset-, and industry-specific characteristics as well as time-varying variables on leverage, pricing and return expectations. READ MORE

  5. 4. The Relationship Between Idiosyncratic Volatility and Portfolio Return within Swedish Stock Markets.

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Graduate School

    Author : Christian Gray; Ricardo Sousa; [2022-06-29]
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    Abstract : Main results suggest there is a statistically and economically significant positive relationship between idiosyncratic volatility and portfolio return within the Swedish stock markets. This relationship is detected despite the low idiosyncratic volatility climate of Sweden. READ MORE

  6. 5. The Momentum Premium: An Intermediary Asset Pricing Perspective

    University essay from Handelshögskolan i Stockholm/Institutionen för finansiell ekonomi

    Author : Simon Eliasson; David Öhlund; [2021]
    Keywords : Momentum; Intermediary Asset Pricing; Time-Varying Risk;

    Abstract : We attempt to explain the momentum premium using time-varying risk under the frictions of financial intermediation. Our conditional CAPM model reveals positive covariation between momentum's beta and the expected market risk premium. READ MORE