Essays about: "Mutual funds"
Showing result 6 - 10 of 219 essays containing the words Mutual funds.
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6. Does the Fee Affect the Performance of Real Estate Funds? : An Explanatory Study on the Swedish, Norwegian, Finnish Market
University essay from Umeå universitet/FöretagsekonomiAbstract : Over the past decades, investing and saving in mutual funds has become a popular alternativefor generating returns. Interest continues to grow and is widespread among different types ofinvestors, ranging from small-scale savers to professional investors, as well as differentgeographic markets. READ MORE
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7. Marketing and Mutual Fund Size: Empirical evidence on the effectiveness of marketing by fund employees
University essay from Handelshögskolan i Stockholm/Institutionen för finansiell ekonomiAbstract : This thesis aims to study the effects of marketing on mutual fund size, by itself as well as in comparison to other factors. Although marketing may not be the first thing funds think of when wanting to increase their size, the literature appears to suggest they should. READ MORE
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8. Fund Managers' Awareness of Announcement Premiums: A Study on Fund Managers' Investment Decisions
University essay from Handelshögskolan i Stockholm/Institutionen för finansiell ekonomiAbstract : In this paper, we interview fund managers of actively managed Swedish mutual funds to understand how they trade around earnings announcements. Based on an academic paper that we use as the basis for our paper, the authors of the paper find that fund managers on average tend to decrease their exposure to stocks ahead of earnings announcements, even though there is a significantly increased risk-reward and earnings announcement premium to earn ahead of the announcements. READ MORE
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9. Fragile Market: The impact of mutual funds on the corporate bond market
University essay from Handelshögskolan i Stockholm/Institutionen för finansiell ekonomiAbstract : This master's thesis investigates whether mutual funds can induce fire sales on the Swedish corporate bond market between August 2019 and August 2020 to determine whether mutual funds aggravated the COVID-19 crash, and if their solution to temporarily freeze withdrawals were a viable remedy. Moreover, the thesis addresses this question using a panel-data framework that includes mutual fund-specific variables, control variables suggested by previous literature, entity, and time-fixed effects, allowing the thesis to capture divergences between corporate bonds and months. READ MORE
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10. Where does the revenues in the mutual fund industry come from? A qualitative study exploring actively managed mutual funds where a distinction has been made between bank- and nonbank distributed fund
University essay from Handelshögskolan i Stockholm/Institutionen för finansiell ekonomiAbstract : This thesis investigates where the revenues in the mutual fund industry comes from and what determines the large amount of assets under management (AUM) within this industry. A qualitative study has been conducted where eight different interviews were held with interviewees within various seniorities at different institutions. READ MORE
