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Index Funds And Etfs: Simplifying Investing For Better Returns, Patrick J. Cotton Jan 2023

Index Funds And Etfs: Simplifying Investing For Better Returns, Patrick J. Cotton

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Business Risk And Attest Service Fees: Understanding The Effect Of Low Fed Interest Rates On Bank Audit Fees, Lucas Erik Jones Jan 2021

Business Risk And Attest Service Fees: Understanding The Effect Of Low Fed Interest Rates On Bank Audit Fees, Lucas Erik Jones

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The Effect Of Gender On Ethical Investing, Delaney J. Housley Jan 2020

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 …


Causes Of Chaos: Understanding Economic Crises In Latin America, Kevin Murphy Jan 2020

Causes Of Chaos: Understanding Economic Crises In Latin America, Kevin Murphy

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The Effect Of Pensions On Fortune 500 Companies And The Market, Ivana Korusiakova Jan 2020

The Effect Of Pensions On Fortune 500 Companies And The Market, Ivana Korusiakova

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This paper is an attempt at identifying the effects of pension changes and negative news associated with pensions on the stock market. This identification is carried out through an extensive review and analysis of the literature on the causes and reasons for different pension techniques and the economics behind pensions. In addition, four major corporations were analyzed after announcing they would either be altering or discontinuing their pension plans due to the coronavirus pandemic. After conducting further analysis, it was found that pensions do cause major shifts in the stock market due to negative news surrounding them.


The Future Of Actively Managed Funds, Oliver M. Botthof Jan 2020

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 Jan 2018

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 Jan 2018

The Department Of Labor Fiduciary Rule: How Will It Affect Financial Advisors And Their Clients?, Claire Hawkes

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Investing In Sustainability: Making Portsmouth, New Hampshire A Sustainable City, David Freeman Apr 2013

Investing In Sustainability: Making Portsmouth, New Hampshire A Sustainable City, David Freeman

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