Essays about: "pension management"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 57 essays containing the words pension management.

  1. 1. Sustainable Investments in Times of Crisis

    University essay from Handelshögskolan i Stockholm/Institutionen för finansiell ekonomi

    Author : Anton Johanson; Tobias Persson; [2023]
    Keywords : Funds value added; Gross and net alpha; Covid-19; ESG; Green and Brown funds;

    Abstract : This paper examines the effect of Covid-19 on green and brown funds in the Swedish Premium Pension System (PPS). We apply the methodology derived in Berk and van Binsbergen (2015) in a difference-in-difference model with time-fixed effects to estimate the average effect of Covid-19 on green funds for both value added and conventional alpha measures. READ MORE

  3. 2. Sustainable investment strategies and the impact of the EU taxonomy : A study on Swedish institutional investors

    University essay from KTH/Skolan för industriell teknik och management (ITM)

    Author : Marcus Eriksson; William Seth Wenzel; [2023]
    Keywords : EU Taxonomy; SRI Strategies; Sustainable investing; Swedish institutional investors; EU-taxonomin; SRI-strategier; hållbara investeringar; svenska institutionella investerare;

    Abstract : This thesis investigates the current sustainable investment strategy of Swedish institutional investors that are not covered by the EU Taxonomy and how the Taxonomy will affect their work with sustainable investments. As a basis, 7 semi-structured interviews have been conducted. READ MORE

  4. 3. Switching Employment from Private to Public Sector in Cambodia : Public Servants’ Motives for Sector Switching and Challenges

    University essay from Malmö universitet/Institutionen för Urbana Studier (US)

    Author : Daravuth Kong; [2023]
    Keywords : sector switching; motives; challenges; public officers; civil servants; government employees; public sector; private sector;

    Abstract : This master thesis investigates the public servants’ motives for switching their employment from the private to the public sector and for having a tendency to work in the public organization. It also focuses on factors they describe as job satisfaction and the challenges they have encountered after transitioning to the public-sector employment. READ MORE

  5. 4. Becoming comfortable with saying yes - a study on risk management and decision-making in a state pension fund

    University essay from Handelshögskolan i Stockholm/Institutionen för redovisning och finansiering

    Author : Susanna Hellström; Emil Jakobsson; [2022]
    Keywords : Risk management; Operational risk; Decision-making; Comfort theory; Private market investments;

    Abstract : Risk management has in recent decades shifted from a concern for financial risk to including a plethora of risks that can adversely affect an organization. One of the categories of risk that has risen in relevance is operational risk, a category many organizations struggle to make sense of, not least due to its qualitative nature. READ MORE

  6. 5. Considering Tail Events in Hedge Fund Portfolio Optimization

    University essay from Linköpings universitet/Produktionsekonomi

    Author : Josefin Bladh; Holm Greta; [2021]
    Keywords : Portfolio Optimization; Hedge Funds; Tail Events; Mean-CVaR;

    Abstract : 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