The European Union Emission Trading System (EU ETS) is the world's largest trading system for emissions. It has a crucial role to play in meeting the goals of the Paris Agreement. However, there has been debate over its ...

This study evaluates the performance of equity analysts who cover publicly traded stocks in the Nordic markets. To assess their performance, we employ a method that involves creating daily rebalanced portfolios based on ...

This thesis aims to contribute to the understanding of the benefits, limitations and future improvements of AI in fund management, it also tries to understand to what degree AI can substitute the human element. By conducting ...

This study is examining acquiror CAR on the day of announcement following acquisitions made by Swedish public companies. The study investigates whether the acquiror CAR differs between cash and stock based acquisitions. ...

This thesis aims to identify if there is a positive relationship between ESG and fund performance, and if this relationship is different depending on the strategic benchmark of the funds and how they differ between the ...

This thesis researches whether investing in stocks with high ESG-scores is a viable investment strategy compared to investing in stocks with low PE-ratios. This has been done through first testing the relationship between ...

This paper unravels the impact of sustainability on systematic risk. Literature suggests that enhanced sustainability reduces companies' systematic risk, thanks to e.g. product differentiation, a broader spectrum of investors ...

This study uses daily data to examine how different ESG implementations affect performance and portfolio characteristics. With a non-homogenous view of how ESG investing is defined, ten different value-weighted portfolios ...

This empirical study examines whether team or single-managed mutual equity funds in the Swedish fund market are more risk-prone conditionally on the management structure during the last five years (2018-2022). Additionally, ...

This study examines the relationship between leverage and firm size for a sample of 83 firms listed on OMX Stockholm Small Cap between 2018 and 2022. Additionally, it explores the impact of the Covid-19 crisis on this ...