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Index Funds And Etfs: Simplifying Investing For Better Returns, Patrick J. Cotton
Index Funds And Etfs: Simplifying Investing For Better Returns, Patrick J. Cotton
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The Effect Of Gender On Ethical Investing, Delaney J. Housley
The Effect Of Gender On Ethical Investing, Delaney J. Housley
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Prior literature related to gender and risk propensity would suggest that females are risk-averse, compassionate, and value ethics over return. This ideology of traditional gender norms stereotypically implies that females may be more likely to engage in ethical investing, as there is inherently less risk in investing in companies with strong corporate social responsibility. On the other hand, males are often portrayed as risk-seeking, competitively motivated, and valuing profits over principle, thus may be more willing to compromise ethics if the ends justify the means. The following paper seeks to investigate this relationship between gender and ethical investing, as examined …
The Future Of Actively Managed Funds, Oliver M. Botthof
The Future Of Actively Managed Funds, Oliver M. Botthof
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This study analyzes the relationship between actively managed U.S. equity funds and passively managed U.S. equity funds over the past 20 years. This study concludes with a prediction as to where these markets are headed based off related literature and regression based tests run a a sample of funds.
Do President Trump’S Tweets Increase Uncertainty In The Us Economy?, Michael Simpson
Do President Trump’S Tweets Increase Uncertainty In The Us Economy?, Michael Simpson
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When President Trump tweets, does it change uncertainty in the economy? This study gathers President Trump’s tweets off his twitter accounts from October 2016 to October 2017 and classifies each of them as either negative (expected to increase uncertainty), positive (expected to decrease uncertainty) or neutral (no effect expected on uncertainty). I find that tweets with a negative sentiment were followed by an increase in uncertainty in the VIX and S&P 500 1 and 2 minutes after the tweet. Similar results were found for positive tweets. Non-neutral tweets increase trading volume in the VIX and S&P 500 by up to …
The Department Of Labor Fiduciary Rule: How Will It Affect Financial Advisors And Their Clients?, Claire Hawkes
The Department Of Labor Fiduciary Rule: How Will It Affect Financial Advisors And Their Clients?, Claire Hawkes
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