Commodities have historically been seen as great diversifiers to stocks and bonds. Following the financialization in late 1990s and early 2000s this began to be questioned by previous research due to increasing correlations ...

The aim of this thesis is to examine whether cryptocurrencies should be included in future investment portfolios or not. This thesis not only focuses on Bitcoin, but also uses the Bloomberg Galaxy Crypto Index to represent ...

Globalization causes domestic markets to become increasingly correlated, making it harder for investors to find instruments for diversification. Bitcoin is a cryptocurrency that has shown spectacular returns and drawn great ...

The purpose of this study is to investigate whether the four Swedish public pension funds AP1-4 contribute to the stability of the pension system by evaluating their mandate as formulated in the law. The thesis contributes ...

In this thesis, we investigate the financial performance of European green and conventional mutual equity funds over the 2007 – 2017 period. We applied the Carhart (1997) four-factor model over three different periods, ...

The purpose of this thesis is to investigate the performance of Swedish mutual equity funds that primarily invest in either the Swedish or the U.S. market. Complementing prior research, we emphasis the relative performance ...