Sökning: "Environmental mutual funds"

Visar resultat 16 - 20 av 22 uppsatser innehållade orden Environmental mutual funds.

  1. 16. Socially responsible mutual fund activism - evidence from socially responsible mutual fund proxy voting and exit behavior

    D-uppsats, Handelshögskolan i Stockholm/Institutionen för redovisning och finansiering

    Författare :Paksiree Chantrakooptungool; Jingxiao Du; [2017]
    Nyckelord :socially responsible mutual funds; proxy voting; exit; shareholder activism; socially responsible investment;

    Sammanfattning : We investigate whether socially responsible mutual funds attempt to make positive changes when casting proxy votes of their portfolio firms. Our data covers 232,680 voting decisions made by 41 socially responsible mutual funds voted on between July 2011 and June 2016. LÄS MER

  3. 17. Investing to Curb Climate Change - The Performance and Risk of Green Mutual Funds

    Master-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Nationalekonomiska institutionen

    Författare :Sophie Glossmann; Mira Schwarz; [2016]
    Nyckelord :Green mutual funds; Environmental mutual funds; Green investment; Financial performance; Idiosyncratic risk; Fossil-free investing; Business and Economics;

    Sammanfattning : Environmental concerns have come to increased investors’ attention and have raised the number of investment opportunities in green mutual funds. We advance an emerging debate on the link between financial and environmental performance by measuring the effects of green in a regional, sectoral and fossil fuel setting. LÄS MER

  4. 18. Are ethical mutual funds safer than conventional mutual funds in the European market? : A matched pair analysis of the risk in ethical mutual funds based on three GARCH models´estimates from a five factor model

    Magister-uppsats, Högskolan i Jönköping/IHH, Economics, Finance and Statistics

    Författare :Christoffer Johansson; Mattias Brandt; [2015]
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    Sammanfattning : Background: Ethical investing is growing in importance due to investors’ concern with environmental and social issues. However, there is difference of opinion regarding the extent to which the limited investment universe affects the financial return of ethical investments. LÄS MER

  5. 19. Superior Fund Performance by Exclusion. Does an Exclusion and Norms-Based Strategy Enhance Performance for Socially Responsible Retail Investors?

    Kandidat-uppsats, Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för nationalekonomi med statistik

    Författare :Mikaela Hildén; Fredrik Olsson Stenkil; [2014-07-04]
    Nyckelord :Socially Responsible Investing; Mutual Fund Performance; Environmental; Socal and Governance ESG Analysis; Ethical Investments; Exclusion-and Norms-Based Screening; Stustainablility;

    Sammanfattning : The study examines whether there is a significant relationship between risk-adjusted returns and the intensity of exclusion and norms-based screening. The approaches to socially responsible investing adopted by mutual funds in the Swedish premium pension system are quantified and the monthly performances over the three year period March 2011 – March 2014 are estimated with Jensen’s alpha, Carhart’s four-factor alpha and the Sharpe ratio. LÄS MER

  7. 20. Etiska fonder : en studie för att undersöka om avkastningen skiljer sig mellan etiska och traditionella fonder?

    Kandidat-uppsats, SLU/Dept. of Economics

    Författare :Ranja Abounaja El khabbaz; [2014]
    Nyckelord :avkastning; etiska fonder; fonder; prestationsmått; regressionsanalys; risk; riskjusterad avkastning;

    Sammanfattning : I takt med att miljö och socialt ansvarstagande blivit en central fråga globalt har även många privatpersoner fått en vilja att ta ställning i dessa frågor när de gäller vardagliga ärenden som konsumtion. Detta har lett till att många varor skapats i ny form som anpassar sig efter konsumenternas preferenser. LÄS MER