Essays about: "Swedish ethical fund"

Showing result 6 - 10 of 19 essays containing the words Swedish ethical fund.

1. 6. The Influence of Ethics on Investment Performance : A comparative study of Swedish national pension funds and Swedish private investment funds

   University essay from Högskolan i Jönköping/IHH, Företagsekonomi

   Author : Mattias Nokelainen; [2016]
   Keywords : International and Swedish Stock Market; Pension Funds; Ethics; SRI; CSR; ESG; Performance Measures;

   Abstract : Previous research found Swedish national pension funds to perform worse than the market average. This study finds that, contradictory to previous research, the AP-funds per-form better than the market. READ MORE

3. 7. SRI - "Superior Return Investment?" - A study of Swedish socially responsible investment mutual funds over a longer period, evaluating the performance of funds and managers in different market conditi

   University essay from Handelshögskolan i Stockholm/Institutionen för finansiell ekonomi

   Author : Eric Abrahamsson; Axel Grapengiesser; [2015]
   Keywords : SRI; Socially Responsible Investment; Ethical Investment; Mutual Fund Performance; Financial Crisis;

   Abstract : The market for socially responsible investment funds has been growing steadily in the recent years, and sustainable growth can be argued to be of great importance to future generations. Previous research has, contradictory to classic financial theory indicated similar performance between mutual funds imposing ethical constraints, and their conventional unrestricted counterparts. READ MORE

4. 8. Swedish SRI Funds after Fukushima Incident

   University essay from Umeå universitet/Företagsekonomi

   Author : Ricardo Rodriguez Almenara; Evangelos Christodoulou; [2015]
   Keywords : Funds; SRI; Swedish Funds; Fund Flows; Socially Responsible Investments; Fukushima Incident and Investors;

   Abstract : Socially Responsible Investment is a vehicle that has been designed in order to facilitate those investors whose objectives go beyond return maximization. Essentially, this investment class is comprised of constituents that promote social, ethical and environmental concerns. READ MORE

5. 9. Socially Responsible Investments : Are investors paying a price for investing ethically?

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   Author : Ulrica Arvidsson; Ebba Ljungbergh; [2015]
   Keywords : Socially Responsible Investments SRI ; Ethical investments; Performance evaluation; Risk-adjusted performance; Carhart s four-factor model; Mutual funds;

   Abstract : The aim of this study is to evaluate the difference in performance and management fees between ethical and conventional mutual funds registered in Sweden. Our dataset consists of 49 ethical and 254 conventional funds, estimated on a 10-year period of time between January 2005 to January 2015. READ MORE

6. 10. Good For Goodness Sake? An evaluation of the performance of ethical funds in Sweden

   University essay from Handelshögskolan i Stockholm/Institutionen för nationalekonomi

   Author : Linn Egeland; Linnea Jahnson; [2015]
   Keywords : Performance evaluation; Ethical investments; Mutual funds; Socially responsible investing;

   Abstract : Using a survivorship-bias free dataset, the fund performance and market timing of 95 Swedish ethical mutual funds and 237 conventional mutual funds between 2004 and 2014 is compared in order to investigate if there is an additional cost associated with ethical investments. For the evaluation of fund performance the CAPM single-index model as well as the Carhart (1997) 4-factor model is applied. READ MORE