The cost to investors of investing in mutual equity funds through management fees, could be substantial when compared to the return they generate. If the fees are fairly set, they should give investors a high excess return, ...

This thesis provides an explanation of how well ethical funds perform in relation to a suitable market index and it also evaluates which bank in Sweden has the best performing Swedish ethical fund as well as the best ...

This paper will examine if smaller companies outperform large ones in the backwashes of the crisis, i.e. if growth stocks are better off than value stocks when investing. I will investigate how well the three largest ...

The purpose is to measure the performance of environmental funds in terms of absolute returns as well as risk adjusted returns against their respective indices. This is to determine whether environmental funds can be a ...

This study investigates the performance and investment styles of mutual ethical equity funds on the global market. To examine this, the Fama French Five Factor model is applied by adding the new variables to Fama French ...

Syftet med studien är att kvantitativt undersöka om det föreligger någon skillnad i prestation mellan fonder med liten respektive stor fondförmögenhet. Studien är baserad på ett urval av svenska aktiefonder och omfattar ...

The financial crisis of 2007 and 2008 lead to great instability on the financial market as stock prices fell rapidly to then progressively increase again. Further on, in February 2015, Sweden experienced a negative repo ...