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    Mutual fund performance - Explaining the performance of Swedish domestic equity mutual funds using different fund characteristics.
    (2005) Persson, Marina; Karlsson, Thomas; Göteborg University/Department of Business Administration
    Background: In Sweden mutual funds alone account for SEK 1 trillion as of today. This is a doubling in wealth in only 7 years. For decades people have tried to come up with successful trading strategies enabling them to beat the market. Since mutual funds have become popular the research has also started to include ways of finding the right mutual funds. Academics continuously try to find characteristics influencing mutual fund return. Choosing the right mutual funds can have considerable effects on investors’ ending wealth; one percent each year in 30 years can imply a huge amount. Since the influence on accumulated wealth is enormous it would be preferable if fund investors could evaluate managers based on known characteristics influencing return. Purpose: The aim of this thesis is to investigate whether an investor can find fund attributes influencing return, which can give him indications about future performance. Definition: When mutual funds or funds are used in this thesis only equity mutual funds are considered; accordingly fixed income funds, mixed funds or other special funds are not considered. Methodology: Extensive research exists in our subject of interest; however academics have attained divergent results. In our study hypotheses are defined regarding those attributes most frequently used by finance academics. The hypotheses are being tested by performing several regression analyses, both simple and multiple. By accepting or rejecting the hypotheses we find out if earlier studies, mainly from the U.S., are applicable on Swedish mutual funds. Our empirical data exists of secondary sources mainly collected from each mutual fund’s annual report. Data is also collected from the Six Trust Database and by e-mailing different mutual fund companies. The study covers the period 2000-01-03 – 2004-12-31 and only includes mutual funds invested in domestic securities. Data: A huge body of financial articles concerning the subject of mutual fund performance have been studied before performing the study. These articles are mainly derived from the U.S. and financial professionals diverge in their results concerning which attributes that influence return. Result: Our study shows that the attributes having some impact on mutual fund return are risk, size, age and mutual fund tenure. Risk was shown to have the greatest influence on return as expected.
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    Tidningar i undervisningen - ett användbart läromedel?
    (2007) Andersson, Fredrik; Karlsson, Thomas; Göteborgs universitet/Sociologiska institutionen
    Sammanfattning: Vårt syfte är att undersöka vilka pedagogiska fördelar det kan finnas med att, som lärare, använda sig av dagstidningar i sin undervisning. Vi vill även undersöka om det finns någon förankring i läroplanerna för att arbeta med tidningar. Vi har genomfört detta i form av en kvalitativ undersökning där verksamma lärare som arbetar aktivt med tidningar i sina klassrum har deltagit. Denna undersökning har genomförts skriftligt och lärarna har svarat via e-brev. Vi har kommit fram till att det finns goda pedagiska grunder och stark förankring i läroplanerna för att bedriva undervisning på detta sätt. Vi anser att många av de mål som uttrycks i läroplanerna Lpo 94 och Lpf 94 kan uppnås genom att låta eleverna arbeta med tidningar. Genom detta arbetssätt finns också en möjlighet att placera elevernas lärande i ett sammanhang och att utgå ifrån deras värld för att på så sätt fånga deras intresse och därmed underlätta bland annat samhällsförståelse och läsinlärning. Vi anser att denna undersökning har en betydelse för läraryrket i och med att vi visar att det finns pedagogiska motiv för att arbeta med tidningar i skolan.