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21	Beating the Swedish Market : A dynamic approach to Value Investing using Modern Portfolio Theory Karlsson, Viktor, Nygren, Emil January 2012 (has links) Previous research has confirmed the existence of a value premium in a wide array of markets and using this value stock anomaly has yielded superior performance. This thesis investigates if one could take advantage of the existence of a value premium to deploy a dynamic investment strategy on the Swedish stock market (OMXS30) with focus on minimizing risk to achieve higher risk adjusted performance than the stock market index. The investment strategy implemented use Market-to-Book-Value to screen for both entry and exit signals and Modern Portfolio Theory, using the minimum-variance portfolio with short-selling constraints, to allocate assets within the portfolio. The investment strategy is evaluated using the Modigliani-Modigliani Risk Adjusted Performance measure. Conclusions from the thesis are that the strategy does outperform the Swedish stock market index, both in terms of nominal return and risk-adjusted performance. The suboptimal behaviour of investors where they overreact to signals and unconsciously rely on heuristics is used to explain why this is possible. Market-to-Book-Value, using the first quartile as entry signal and third quartile as exit signal, is considered to be a successful key ratio to screen for value stocks. Behavioural Finance Capital Asset Pricing Model Contrarian Efficient Market Hypothesis Glamour stocks Investment Strategy Market-to-Book-Value Minimum-Variance Modern Portfolio Theory Risk-adjusted performance Stock screening Value stocks
22	Beauty and the beach. Plunkett, Claudia Bernadette. January 2003 (has links) This dissertation aims to interpret holiday imagery in the media, as a site of South African cultural production, on the basis of newspaper images of local white and black people published in the Natal Mercury from 1966 to 1996. A strong historical approach (the history of the Western holiday) has been taken in order to analyze existing social structures relating to the holiday in South Africa, specifically gender, race and class. These social structures have been examined in depth, with the result of numerous interpretations being made about behaviour and the depiction of behaviour in the context of Durban beaches and leisure. / Thesis (M.A.)-University of Natal, Pietermaritzburg, 2003. Holidays in art. Human figure in art. Leisure in art. Holidays--History. Natal Mercury (Newspaper) Glamour photography. Mass media and culture--South Africa. Mass media and women--South Africa. Theses--Fine art.
23	Anatomy of a pin-up : a genealogy of sexualized femininity since the Industrial Age Lipsos, Eleni January 2013 (has links) Pin-up images have played an important role in American culture, in both their illustrated and photographic configurations. The pin-up is viewed as a significant representational cultural artifact of idealistic and aspirational femininity and of consumerism and material wealth, especially reflective of the mid-twentieth century period in America spanning the 1930s to the 1960s. These images not only reflect great shifts in social mores and women’s social status, but also affected changes in both areas in turn. Furthermore, pin-up images internationally circulated in magazines, advertising and promotional material, contributed to the manner in which America was idealized in Europe and beyond. Crucially, they influenced how an eroticized and glamorous, yet unrealistic, example of femininity came to be generalized as a desirous model of femininity. In recent years there has been vital, though limited, scholarly research into the cultural and social impact of pin-up imagery, to which this thesis adds to. This thesis takes a genealogical approach, charting the development of popular female-centric “pin-up” imagery in America since the 1860s and up to the 1960s, and its resurgence since the 1980s onwards. In doing so this thesis aims to provide a social, political and cultural context to the emergence of a specific archetypal sexualized femininity, with the aim of challenging the tendency to dismiss sexualized imagery as “anti-feminist” or as trivial. Toward that end, I examine the complexity of intentions behind the production of “pin-up” images. In taking this revisionist approach I am better able to conclusively analyze the reasons for the resurgence and reappropriation of pin-up imagery in late-twentieth- and early-twenty-first-century popular culture, and consider what the gendered cultural implications may be. 740
24	A Rhetorical Analysis of Modern Day Retro-Sexism: Misogyny Masked by Glamour in Mad Men Caton, Hannah Noelle 19 August 2015 (has links) No description available. American History American Literature Epistemology Aesthetics Evolution and Development Families and Family Life Film Studies Gender Gender Studies Individual and Family Studies Modern History Modern Literature Rhetoric Womens Studies Rhetoric Mad Men Rhetorical Analysis 1950s 1960s 1970s Culture Anti feminism Aesthetics Retro Sexism Don Draper Sexism Television Gender Film Studies Modernism Family Life Evolution Counterculture Misogyny Glamour

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