Essays about: "Greta Bladh"
Found 2 essays containing the words Greta Bladh.
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1. Considering Tail Events in Hedge Fund Portfolio Optimization
University essay from Linköpings universitet/ProduktionsekonomiAbstract : The Fourth Swedish National Pension Fund (AP4), as well as many other large investors, has noted deficiencies the Mean-Variance framework for portfolio management of asset with non-normal characteristics. The main problem apparent in the Mean-Variance framework, when investing in alternative assets such as hedge funds, is the lacking systematic control of the balance between the measurements of risk due normal variation and tail-risk. READ MORE
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2. Hard Body 2.0 The Construction of the Fitness Subject: An Analysis of Swedish Fitness Blogs
University essay from Lunds universitet/Genusvetenskapliga institutionenAbstract : Through conducting a discourse analysis of Swedish fitness blogs, aided by the theoretical framework of Michel Foucault in terms of technologies of the self, and the concept of habitus as it is explained by Pierre Bourdieu, as well as a critical perspective concerning the morals of health, I’ve investigated how human beings engage and negotiate discourse and social structure through writing practices mediated through cyberspace. The results indicated that the fitness field is a field of possibilities, and that it is through agency that discourse and social structure come in to play, and thus it is through agency that different practices of appropriating fitness and health were displayed, signifying that the fitness subject is heterogeneously constructed. READ MORE
