Fondsparandet har länge varit den dominerande sparformen i Sverige. Totalt ägnar sig hela 74 procent av Sveriges befolkning åt aktivt fondsparande, och andelen blir högre vid pensionssparande. Tendensen är tydlig, svenskar ägnar sig allt mindre åt att själva äga aktier och har i stället överlåtit sparandet till banker och fondförvaltare. Storleken på en aktiefond har stor betydelse för vilken strategi en förvaltare väljer. Tidigare studier har funnit att det finns skillnader mellan förvaltad fondförmögenhet, avkastning och risktagande. Studierna är dock få på den svenska marknaden. Uppsatsen syftar till att undersöka risk och avkastning i mindre och större fondförmögenheter inom Sverige. Om det föreligger en skillnad i risktagandet skall det även undersökas i fall fonder får betalt för sina risker.   Den kvantitativa undersökningen av små respektive stora fonder har utretts utifrån ett finansteoretiskt perspektiv med empirisk data och statistisk metodik. Undersökningen har baserats på Morningstars data av Sverigefonder. Huvudmåtten som använts är Sharpes kvot, Treynors kvot och Jensens alfa. Aktiv risk har använts som referens till huvudmåtten. Data har sammanställts och beräknats i två statistiska datorprogram. Resultatet har därefter analyserats utifrån gällande frågeställningar och matas ut i form av diagram och tabeller. De induktiva slutsatserna har härletts från diskussion av resultatet och analysen. En klar majoritet av måtten visade att små fonder är att föredra. Alla mått visade att både små och stora fonder utmärkte sig positivt över mätperioden, men att de flesta av storbankernas fonder presterade i paritet med index eller något bättre. Förvaltare som tog en hög aktiv risk blev ofta belönade genom en överavkastning mot index.   Slutsatserna är att Sverigefonder skiljer sig mellan mindre och större förmögenheter, men att den aktiva förvaltningsrisken är påtaglig i respektive fondstorlek. Det är med andra ord skickligheten hos förvaltaren som avgör hur avkastningen kommer att se ut. Valet av Sverigefonder bör stå mellan olika små fonder med hög aktiv risk som förvaltas av duktiga förvaltare.

"'The Burden of the Image:' Jane Morris in Art and Life" examines the work and life of Pre-Raphaelite model Jane Burden Morris (1839-1914). Burden Morris, an embroiderer and wife of the arts and crafts designer William Morris (1834-96), became famous in her own lifetime as the model for a number of Pre-Raphaelite works, particularly the paintings of Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-82). Although she was not considered conventionally beautiful by Victorian standards, artists drew heavily upon Burden Morris’s appearance, particularly her striking features and unusual artistic dress, in order to heighten the exoticism of their works and to suggest moments outside contemporary Victorian time and place. Burden Morris’s features became synonymous with the Pre-Raphaelite ideal in female beauty and several contemporaries reflected upon the surreal experience of meeting the enigmatic woman thought only to exist in paintings. Borrowing from a material culture approach which views images as both reflective and formative of identity, this work considers the relationship between Jane Burden Morris and her painted representation, and focuses in particular on the works produced through Burden Morris’s long-standing collaboration with Rossetti. Through an examination of Burden Morris’s appearance, activities, and demeanour, this dissertation considers the aspects of Burden Morris’s identity which contributed to her use in numerous Pre-Raphaelite images, and further explores the way in which these paintings may have altered how Burden Morris conceived of her own identity. “The Burden of the Image” examines three dominant modes of representing Burden Morris, including depictions of Burden Morris as medieval damsel, myth, and monster. It also considers Jane Burden Morris’s role within the broader context of aestheticism, and explores her relationship to the artistic dress movement and the aesthetic interior. / Thesis (Ph.D, Art History) -- Queen's University, 2014-03-31 13:33:52.106

Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps (1803-1863) set out on his only trip to Greece and Turkey in 1828 to return to France and produce visual images of the Orient at a time when no major European artist had traveled to the Near East and at a time when the Orient had yet to be experienced, understood, and interpreted. Decamps’ highly original and personal interpretation of the Orient in painting has been studied by present-day scholars exclusively within the context of Romantic Orientalist genre painting. Studying criticism written on his work throughout the 19th century and working closely with his paintings, certain issues in his Orientalist paintings question the longstanding categorization of his work as solely Romantic Orientalist genre paintings. The fact that the artist never returned to the Orient; the fact that he invested his Orientalist landscapes with a Rembrandesque rather than Oriental light; his constant inclusion of contrasting opposites in the ostensibly subdued compositions he produced; the striking differences between his Oriental visual expressions and those of his Romantic contemporaries; and his own sentiment of being a failed artist, reveal alternative, less settled, readings of his work. Studying Decamps’ Orientalist oeuvre in its social and political contexts and taking into account the artist’s personal ambitions demonstrates the lasting resonance of this work, of the artist’s highly original working methods, and of his innovative technique. This study provides an assessment of Decamps’ Oriental work; it also delineates its relevance and influence in movements beyond Romanticism and into trends that developed during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. / Thesis (Master, Art History) -- Queen's University, 2008-12-11 20:43:05.08

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This thesis analyzes contemporary participatory installation art, play theory, especially Johan Huizingas seminal Homo Ludens, and the aesthetic theories of Nicolas Bourriauds Relational Aesthetics and Jacques Rancires Politics of Aesthetics. Ping Pond Table 1998 by Gabriel Orozco and Test Site 2006 by Cartsen Hller are studied to illustrate how play and the aesthetic can become political by repositioning the contemporary viewer as an active and playing participant in the artwork, prompting an awareness of the matrix of power between audience, artwork and institution, and by creating the possibility for dynamic social roles. This thesis, like the artworks it examines, invokes a conception of play as a vital construct of culture rather than simply the domain of childhood imagination. Overturning the dominant concept of play and reinstating play in adult life becomes a political act because it engages adults in liberated, creative thinking that challenges traditional, consumer-driven, practical and thus constructive behaviours.

The thesis traces the evolving attitudes towards rhetoric in the highly-rhetorised English-language prose of the late sixteenth century by focusing on a term that was itself subject to significant change: 'wit'. To wit's pre-existing denotations of intellectual acumen, capacity for reason and good judgement was added a novel meaning, related to the capacity for producing lively speech. As a term encompassing widely divergent meanings, many Elizabethan and early Stuart works explored 'wit' as a central theme or treated the term as significant to explorations of the human mind, its capacity for rhetoric, and the social and moral dimensions of this relationship. The research centres on how 'wit' is seen and how it corresponds to rhetorical wittiness as produced in practice, and questions the implications of this for understanding the social and moral dimensions of the authorial wit. By focusing on the early vernacular manuals of rhetoric by author such as Thomas Wilson and Roger Ascham, on Lyly's and Greene's euphuist prose, and on Thomas Lodge's and Sir Philip Sidney's prose defences of poetry, the first half of the thesis explores the term's conceptual ambiguity. Potentially both reformative and deceptive, this ambiguity becomes a useful tool for the author looking to construct a profitable persona as a Wit, or a brilliant-yet-unruly master of rhetoric. The second half of the research notes how 'wit' tends to outlive its usefulness as a multivalent term in later writings when these seek to move away from the social commodification of an author's rhetoric. Examining Sidney's theological and political aims in The New Arcadia, Thomas Nashe's carnivalesque questioning of the idea of profit, and Francis Bacon's systematic interpretation of Nature, the research suggests that rhetoric and 'wit' maintain both their significance and their ambiguity into the seventeenth century. A meta-rhetorical signpost, 'wit' comes to reflect through its use and disuse both the issues at hand and the inherent self-reflexivity of any attempt to deal directly with rhetoric.

Submitted by Alexandre Costa (alexandreplatt@yahoo.com.br) on 2016-12-14T23:25:22Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Alexandre Platt Costa Dissertação Mestrado Profissional EBAPE.pdf: 2499512 bytes, checksum: 912d61c25c8c024bf5106b744bc15cc8 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by ÁUREA CORRÊA DA FONSECA CORRÊA DA FONSECA (aurea.fonseca@fgv.br) on 2016-12-15T14:13:38Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 Alexandre Platt Costa Dissertação Mestrado Profissional EBAPE.pdf: 2499512 bytes, checksum: 912d61c25c8c024bf5106b744bc15cc8 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-12-20T16:59:03Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Alexandre Platt Costa Dissertação Mestrado Profissional EBAPE.pdf: 2499512 bytes, checksum: 912d61c25c8c024bf5106b744bc15cc8 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016-08-10 / In order to look for tools that monitor public policies for the care of the elderly, this study aims to propose indicators to get an idea of the conditions of the structure and services of UAPI - Relief Gabriel. The indicators will be applied in both the old UAPI - Relief Gabriel as well as to the new one, in order to observe the evolution of this institution, located in the city of Belém / PA. First, the study sought to present the theoretical framework, the indicator definitions and long-stay institutions for the elderly - ILPI. Afterwards it was conducted a historical review of emergence of the ILPI's in the world, in Brazil, and in the state of Pará. The first stage of this study closes with a historical review of the emergence of social indicators in the world and in Brazil. In order to achieve the objective of this study, a research in the book Characteristics of long-stay institutions for the elderly - North, by Ana Amelia Camarano, was carried out. After the description of the book's data, research was carried out in the UAPI – Relief Gabriel, and a contextualization was made between the book and the unit data.During the research time, the UAPI – Relief Gabriel has moved to a new address, fact that was also analyzed during the contextualization. At the end of this stage, four indicators were proposed and analyzed, and it was found that the UAPI - Relief Gabriel managed to improve its indicators after it change the address. Besides the contextualization, it was set up a questionnaire and 18 interviews with elderly residents and shelter visitors were held. / Com o intuito de procurar ferramentas que monitorem e avaliem as políticas públicas voltadas para a assistência ao idoso, o presente estudo teve o objetivo de propor indicadores para se ter uma ideia quanto às condições da estrutura e dos serviços da UAPI – Socorro Gabriel. Os indicadores foram aplicados tanto na antiga estrutura UAPI – Socorro Gabriel quanto na nova, com o intento de se observar a evolução desta instituição, localizada no município de Belém/PA. Primeiramente o estudo apresenta, no referencial teórico, as definições de indicadores e de Instituições de Longa Permanência para Idosos – ILPI. Após, descreve-se uma revisão histórica do surgimento das ILPI’s no mundo, no Brasil e no estado do Pará. A primeira etapa deste estudo finaliza com uma revisão histórica do surgimento dos indicadores sociais no mundo e no Brasil. Para alcançar o objetivo do presente estudo foi feita pesquisa no livro Características das Instituições de Longa Permanência para Idosos - Região Norte, de autoria de Ana Amélia Camarano. Após a descrição dos dados do livro, foi feita pesquisa na UAPI – Socorro Gabriel e efetuada uma contextualização entre os dados coletados e os dados observados no livro. No decorrer da pesquisa, a UAPI – Socorro Gabriel mudou de endereço e o fato foi aproveitado para ser observado nessa contextualização. No final desta etapa quatro indicadores foram propostos e analisados, indicador 1 - número de cuidadores por idoso, indicador 2 – número de leitos por quarto, indicador 3 – espaço físico total e construído por idoso e indicador 4 – número total de funcionários por idoso, assim, detectando-se que a UAPI – Socorro Gabriel conseguiu melhorar seus indicadores após a mudança de endereço. Além da contextualização, foi montado um questionário e realizaram-se 18 entrevistas com idosos residentes e visitantes do novo abrigo.

Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico / O Tratado Descritivo do Brasil em 1587 de Gabriel Soares de Sousa é uma das maiores referências escritas para a historiografia colonial brasileira. Rico em informações sobre a nova terra, a autoria do texto foi identificada por Francisco Adolpho de Varnhagen, em 1838, num exercício de crítica documental. O colono português chegou ao Brasil em 1569, tornou-se senhor de engenhos, foi explorador de riquezas pelo rio São Francisco e apresentou seus escritos à corte de Filipe II, no período da união das coroas. Mas além do conteúdo valioso do discurso, há uma biografia aventuresca a envolvê-lo, relacionando diversos aspectos presentes no processo de colonização e ainda a fascinante história da descoberta dos textos coloniais e de suas leituras. / The text named Tratado Descritivo do Brasil em 1587, by Gabriel Soares de Sousa is one of the greatest written references for the brazilian colonial historiografy. Rich in information about the new land, the authorship of the text was identified by Francisco Adolpho de Varnhagen, in 1838, in an exercise of documental critic. The Portuguese colonist arrived in Brazil in 1569, and became gentleman of devices, explored all over San Francisco River and presented his writings to the court of Philippe II, during the period of the union of the crowns. But beyond the valuable content of the speech, there is an incredible biography involving it and relating diverse aspects presents in the process of settling; there is the fascinating history of the discovery of the colonial texts and its readings.

Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico / O Tratado Descritivo do Brasil em 1587 de Gabriel Soares de Sousa é uma das maiores referências escritas para a historiografia colonial brasileira. Rico em informações sobre a nova terra, a autoria do texto foi identificada por Francisco Adolpho de Varnhagen, em 1838, num exercício de crítica documental. O colono português chegou ao Brasil em 1569, tornou-se senhor de engenhos, foi explorador de riquezas pelo rio São Francisco e apresentou seus escritos à corte de Filipe II, no período da união das coroas. Mas além do conteúdo valioso do discurso, há uma biografia aventuresca a envolvê-lo, relacionando diversos aspectos presentes no processo de colonização e ainda a fascinante história da descoberta dos textos coloniais e de suas leituras. / The text named Tratado Descritivo do Brasil em 1587, by Gabriel Soares de Sousa is one of the greatest written references for the brazilian colonial historiografy. Rich in information about the new land, the authorship of the text was identified by Francisco Adolpho de Varnhagen, in 1838, in an exercise of documental critic. The Portuguese colonist arrived in Brazil in 1569, and became gentleman of devices, explored all over San Francisco River and presented his writings to the court of Philippe II, during the period of the union of the crowns. But beyond the valuable content of the speech, there is an incredible biography involving it and relating diverse aspects presents in the process of settling; there is the fascinating history of the discovery of the colonial texts and its readings.

La place assignée à Gabriel Bonnot de Mably (1709-1785) au sein de l'historiographie contemporaine est ambigüe. Il a été longtemps considéré comme l'une des influences majeures de la Révolution française puis comme l'un des précurseurs de la doctrine communiste. Il a fallu attendre les travaux de l’École de Cambridge en particulier ceux de Pocock, pour qu'un consensus s'opère : Mably est devenu l'archétype du républicain classique en France au XVIIIe siècle. L'objectif de cette thèse est d'interroger l'inscription de Mably dans cette tradition républicaine, en prenant en compte deux éléments fondateurs de sa pensée : i) Sa vraisemblable proximité avec Jacques Vincent de Gournay et la « science du commerce », ii) les influences du droit naturel moderne et en particulier celle de John Locke. Ces éléments conduisent à réévaluer la controverse entre Mably et les physiocrates. Il est proche d'accepter une société fondée sur l'intérêt personnel et le calcul individuel, mais seule une solution républicaine : la participation à la vie collective de chaque citoyen, est en mesure de garantir la théorie, dite libérale, du droit naturel. Et si Mably s'oppose à la libéralisation du commerce des grains défendue par les physiocrates, c'est pour défendre les principes de la « science du commerce », c'est-à-dire un libre-échange encadré. Ainsi, en portant une attention particulière aux influences intellectuelles de Mably, en particulier celles de Locke et de Gournay, cette thèse met en lumière une nouvelle grille interprétative, une position médiane, dans laquelle le langage républicain de Mably est au service de sa théorie du droit naturel. / The place assigned to Gabriel Bonnot de Mably (1709-1785) in contemporary historiography is ambiguous. He is portrayed as a main influence of the French Revolution then as a precursor to the communist doctrine. Recently, the Cambridge School works' and in particular Pocock's works led to a consensus: Mably was the archetype of classical republicanism in France in 18th century. The aim of this thesis is to examine the membership of Mably in this republican tradition taking into account two fundamental elements of his thought: i) his connection with Vincent de Gournay and the "science of commerce"; ii) the influences of modern natural law and in particular that of John Locke. This leads to reassess the controversy between Mably and Physiocrats. He seems close to accepting the Physiocratie argument for a society based on self-interest and individual calculation. But only a republican solution, the participation in the collective life of every citizen, is able to secure the theory, called liberal, of natural law. His opposition to the liberalization of grain tracte results from a defense of the "science of commerce" i.e. a framed free trade. Thus, paying particular attention to Mably's intellectual influences particularly those of Locke and Gournay, this thesis highlights a new interpretative grid, a rniddle position, in which the republican language of Mably secures his theory of natural law.