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  • About
  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
    Our metadata is collected from universities around the world. If you manage a university/consortium/country archive and want to be added, details can be found on the NDLTD website.
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Power, work and learning in private wealth management

Smith, Anita January 2012 (has links)
The main thrust of this study argues that failure to account for the notion of power in considering learning in social contexts—like a working environment—inevitably presents an incomplete and unrealistic account of how learning actually is. Literature suggests that mainstream scholars and theorists have arguably pushed issues regarding the inter-connectedness of power and knowledge to the peripheral—resulting in both a paucity of theoretical coverage and empirical work on the subject. Through an interdisciplinary approach, this study takes inspiration from Foucault’s conceptualization of power—argued to provide a useful analytical framework for exploring power. Implications on how power impacts on learning in a contemporary workplace is viewed through the key ideas of ‘situated learning in communities of practice’ (Lave and Wenger). This study proposes that Foucault’s conceptualizations of power—regarding power as being relational and interconnected to knowledge—allows for a useful analytical framework that can sensitize our efforts towards understanding the power effects of knowledge with regards to learning at, and through, work practices, ultimately enabling us to re-work the concepts of ‘communities of practice’. The context of this study represents a professional knowledge-intensive workplace—Private Wealth Management (also referred to as Private Banking). Such contemporary work contexts—suggested to represent rather different environments vis-à-vis craft-like professions, for example—are argued to represent a more complex, conflicted and competitively-induced platform for learning. The wider regulatory environment was found to have strong influences in shaping the learning environment, representing both opportunities and restrictions for the bankers. Assessment based, compliant-driven and structured-training efforts were key drivers of the learning environment. Social interpersonal skills and professional relationships were observed as being integral and found to involve elements of power inequality, both within and across boundaries to which participants mediated, negotiated and often times obfuscated to effect power shifts through their discursive practices. Skills and perspectives, with regards to learning, evolved as the banker’s career trajectory progressed. Power punctuated not only the social network of relationships, but was also noted at the organizational level, via both explicit and implicit controls. Participants described purposeful thoughts and actions: mediating learning and strategizing outcomes in the respective environments with conflicted identity that requires balancing self, belongingness and directed efforts towards meeting the expectations of organization, respective clients and self.
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Asset Liability Management: Ur privatpersonens perspektiv : Ta kontroll över din ekonomiska framtid / Asset Liability Management: From the individual's perspective : Take control of your financial future

Beijbom, Filip, Fröman, Adam January 2017 (has links)
BAKGRUND: Samtidigt som företag och finansiella institutioner idag har utvecklat avancerade Asset Liability Management-verktyg för att proaktivt hantera sina risker och planera framtida kassaflöden, så baseras dagens privatekonomiska rådgivning fortfarande på traditionella tillgångsallokeringsstrategier och enkla tumregler. Tidigare forskning menar på att liknande ALM-verktyg skulle kunna generera mervärde även för privatpersoner om de implementerades i praktiken, men vad de privata spararna själv tycker i frågan är hitintills outforskat. Trots detta kvarstår faktum att endast om privatpersonen själv ställer sig positiv till verktyget kan teori med fördel implementeras i praktiken. SYFTE: Studiens syfte är att undersöka och analysera den privata spararens inställning och kapacitet att ta till sig rådgivning baserat på ALM, och se om ett ALM-verktyg kan skapa mervärde i den privatekonomiska rådgivningen. GENOMFÖRANDE: Studien har utförts genom kvalitativa intervjuer med 10 privatpersoner. Författarna har skapat scenarier för en fiktiv person, där en ALM-analys visuellt har presenterats under intervjuerna. Genom att ställa frågor kopplade till scenarier har studien kunnat analysera privatpersonens vilja till att delge och förstå den information en ALM-analys genererar, samt dess inställning till att proaktivt planera sin ekonomiska framtid. SLUTSATS: Studien visar att ALM största mervärdesskapande för den privata spararen återfinns i privatpersonens intresse för att visualisera sin ekonomi. En bristande riskförståelse i kombination med en tydlig avsaknad av ekonomiska ambitioner hos den privata spararen försvagar dock verktygets användningsområde. Vidare behöver ALM-verktyget övervinna flertalet begränsat rationella beteenden och förtroendeaspekter för att skapa mervärde ur en privatpersons perspektiv. / BACKGROUND: Companies and financial institutions have developed advanced tools based on the theories of Asset Liability Management with purpose to proactively manage risks and plan future cash flows. At the same time, private financial advising of today is still based on traditional asset allocation methodologies and rules of thumbs. Previous research concludes that similar ALM-tools could add value for private investors in the financial advising, but the private investors’ perspective in the matter is still unexplored. The fact remains that only if the private investors are convinced that ALM can add value, can a tool with theoretical advantages be successfully implemented in practice. AIM: The aim of this thesis is to test and analyze the individual investors’ attitude and capacity to understand private financial advising based on ALM as methodology, and analyze whether an ALM tool adds value in private financial advising. COMPLETION: The thesis has been conducted by ten individual interviews in a qualitative manner. The authors have created a fictitious ALM-analysis that has been presented for all of the respondents. By asking questions connected to scenarios, the study have been able to analyze the individuals’ attitude to share and receive personal information, as well as their attitude to proactively plan their financial future. CONCLUSION: The study concludes that the biggest value-creating aspect of ALM is that individuals show a great interest in visualizing their own financial future. However, a financial illiteracy in combination with a lack of clear-cut financial ambitions, weakens the ALM-tools area of use for the individual. Furthermore, ALM need to overcome barriers in individuals limited rational behavior and simultaneously create a strong trust to maximize the value-creation for the individual.

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