Essays about: "swedish mutual funds"

Showing result 6 - 10 of 132 essays containing the words swedish mutual funds.

1. 6. Fund Managers' Awareness of Announcement Premiums: A Study on Fund Managers' Investment Decisions

   University essay from Handelshögskolan i Stockholm/Institutionen för finansiell ekonomi

   Author : Thomas Paal; Anton Svensson; [2023]
   Keywords : Mutual Funds; Earnings Announcement Premium; Macroeconomic Announcement Premium; Decreasing Exposure; Fund Outflows;

   Abstract : 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

3. 7. Fragile Market: The impact of mutual funds on the corporate bond market

   University essay from Handelshögskolan i Stockholm/Institutionen för finansiell ekonomi

   Author : Noah Tvelin; [2023]
   Keywords : Corporate Bonds; Mutual Funds; Fire Sale; Liquidity; Covid-19;

   Abstract : 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

4. 8. Asset Pricing in Different Periods of Stock Market Volatility : The Varied Effectiveness of Carhart's Four-Factor Model in the Swedish Market

   University essay from Umeå universitet/Företagsekonomi

   Author : Robin Munkhammar; Svensson Hampus; [2023]
   Keywords : Capital Asset Pricing Models; Carhart Four-Factor Model; Swedish Stock Market Volatility;

   Abstract : Investing in the Swedish stock market has over time proven to be an effective way to increase wealth. Nationally speaking, Sweden’s population is also one of the best in the world at investing their savings. Four out of five swedes invest at least some part of their private savings into mutual funds which approximately amounts to 8. READ MORE

5. 9. Fight or Flight: How stock market crashes affect private investors’ portfolio diversification in Sweden

   University essay from Jönköping University/Internationella Handelshögskolan

   Author : Ludvig Löfqvist; Erik Åhlstad; [2023]
   Keywords : Investment behavior; Diversification; Stock market crash; Demographic factors;

   Abstract : Background: Stock ownership has been increasing in Sweden, with 2,7 million individual owners in 2022, up from 2,1 million in 2018. A trend shows that younger individuals are becoming more involved in stock ownership, while those over 40 are decreasing in numbers. READ MORE

6. 10. Are Mutual Funds Greenwashing? : An Exploratory Study of Whether Article 9 Mutual Funds Invest Responsibly

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Företagsekonomiska institutionen

   Author : Tuva Hagelin; [2023]
   Keywords : ESG; responsible investing; the EU’s Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation SFDR 2019 2088; mutual funds; greenwashing.;

   Abstract : Responsible investing is a growing concept as sustainability is becoming a much more apparent problem. Thus, the EU implemented a new regulation in 2021, the SFDR 2019/2088, to decrease information asymmetry between institutional investors and end investors regarding sustainable risks associated with funds’ investments. READ MORE