Essays about: "active fund management"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 42 essays containing the words active fund management.
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1. Development and evaluation of solar heating solutions for Villages in the highlands of Peru
University essay from KTH/Skolan för industriell teknik och management (ITM)Abstract : In the Peruvian highlands, hundreds of thousands of people live in dwellings that are completely unheated. In this climate, nighttime indoor temperatures during the winter could be as low as 0°C. Indoor cold can cause thousands of respiratory diseases and increase winter mortality. READ MORE
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2. Do Active Fund Managers Outperform their Peers? A Study of Active Management and Performance in the Swedish Mutual Fund Market
University essay from Handelshögskolan i Stockholm/Institutionen för finansiell ekonomiAbstract : Primarily, the purpose of this paper is to examine the relationship between active management and fund performance in the Swedish mutual fund market, 2010-2021. Two measures of active management are used: Active Share and Tracking Error. READ MORE
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3. The Existence of Skilled Fund Managers: A Study on Actively Managed Mutual Funds in the US Market
University essay from Handelshögskolan i Stockholm/Institutionen för finansiell ekonomiAbstract : This paper uses a dataset of 19 689 domestic actively managed mutual funds in the US market during 1980-2020 to find the proportions of skilled- and unskilled funds. The method is based on the false discovery approach applied in a financial setting. We conclude that 58% of our sample are zero-alpha funds, 42% unskilled, and 0% skilled. READ MORE
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4. Applying Treynor-Black Model with AP7 Såfa in the Swedish Premium Pension System : To choose between active and passive portfolio management
University essay from Karlstads universitet/Handelshögskolan (from 2013)Abstract : Background: Since 1998 Sweden has individual accounts as a part of both public and occupational schemes (Sundén 2006). Yearly, 2,5% of the pensionable income is set aside to the premium pension (The Swedish Pension Agency 2021) Individuals are able to choose how the premiums should be paid in the system and in what way the money should be invested, either by choosing from the fund market or by refraining from making an active choice and instead let the Swedish pension agency management their money in the passive alternative called AP7 Såfa. READ MORE
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5. Active fund management or passive index cruising?
University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för nationalekonomi med statistikAbstract : How should an investor pick funds to invest in? What is the best strategy, picking active or passive funds? It’s hard to navigate the fund landscape when there is ambiguous evidence and advice coming from different directions. Do fund managers outperform the market and passive funds? Do they bring something extra of value to the table in regards to their high management fees? The question seems almost age-old at this point, from dart throwing monkeys outperforming high profile fund managers to famous investors proclaiming that active fund management is dead, it’s hard to know what is really true about active versus passive fund management. READ MORE
