Background: Mutual funds have become an important part of the Swedish deposit market. Savings in mutual funds add up to almost 20 percent of the households'assets. When the pension reform is carried out all employees are going to have savings both in mutual and bond funds. But only if the fund overperforms the market it is worth investing. Purpose: The purpose of this study is to explore if Swedish mutual funds have generated higher returns than market portfolio in the late nineties.

The aim of this essay is to study how parents to children with learning disability experences the support they get from society. My main question has been: what kind of support offer does society offer this parents? What is good and what is less satisfactory in this support? The study is based on a qualitative method. Five parents with children who has learning disabilities has been used as base. The material has been analysed with a narrative, hernmeneutic perspective.The study concludes that the parents, use in this case, find that society does not offer the necessary understanding for their problem of their family.

In today's social work there is an ambition to work evidence-based in order to improve quality and competency in business. This study is made in a disability administration which has introduced a common approach towards users for all employees. The approach is called low arousal approach. The purpose of the study is to investigate how a method takes hold and implements within an organization. The empirical data is analyzed by theories of professionalization, idea dissemination and translation.

Den 1 januari 1998 infördes en ny lag när det gäller redovisning av pensioner i kommuner. Tidigare belastades resultatet med en kostnad när pensionspengarna utbetalades. Nu skulle kommunernas pensionsskulder som upparbetats innan detta datum endast redovisas med en not, som en ansvarsförbindelse. Detta medför att landets kommuner enligt lag ska inneha en skuld som inte ska ingå i balansräkningen.Vi har kommit fram till att kommunerna redovisar på olika sätt, vissa väljer att bryta mot lagen och lyfta fram hela pensionsskulden i balansräkningen medan merparten av de undersökta kommunerna väljer att följa lagen och på så sätt inneha en dold skuld i balansräkningen. Detta har medfört att en av kommunerna har en negativ soliditet när de räknar med den dolda pensionsskulden till pensionsskulden som redovisas i balansräkningen.

The purpose of our study is to examine the case managers reasoning and descriptions of empowerment as a method in their social work from a comprehensively perspective including family members. To manage with this purpose we interviewed two case managers, two clients with mental disabilities and five family members. We have come to the conclusion that the case managers works more consist of advocacy than empowerment. Despite that we have found that the long term goal for the case mangers work is to give the clients tools for empowerment. Our results also show that the clients feel that they have gained and increased their ability to do things by themselves and to be a part of the community.

The purpose of this study was to examine the differences and similarities between coping strategies used by individuals with the disability ADHD in childhood and later adulthood. The questions we asked ourselves: Are the individuals using the same form of coping in adulthood as in childhood? What copingstrategies used individuals while growing up? What coping-strategies used the individuals in adulthood? To fulfill the purpose and answer the questions, we used qualitative methods. Interviews were conducted with four adults who have the disa-bility ADHD. The interviews were analyzed by the hermeneutic circle.

In this essay the authors have searched to get an understanding of howthe situation where for a person being handicapped and of sámi heritage in Swedenduring the 1800´s to the beginning of 1900´s. In this qualitative study, church booksand local governmental records from the time has been the sources for data. Findingsregarding sámi and disability first of all shows that the sámi didn´t produce any ownwritten records, this means we had to use records produced by Swedish authorities.These are the only records available from the time. Records that gave us theauthorities point of view. When working with historical documents it is the contextwere they were produced in and their implied readership that is of great importance.Using this method gives the possibility to tell the story by the perspective of theexposed, in our case sámi people with disabilities.

Syftet med denna uppsats är att undersöka huruvida individens nytta kommer att öka då flytträtten av pensioner återinfördes i Sverige. Till följd av ett EU-direktiv som syftar till att främja rörlighet av såväl kapital som arbetskraft, måste samtliga pensionsförsäkringar vara flyttbara vilket innebär att individen kan ta sitt förvaltade kapital från en kapitalförvaltare till en annan. Det har tidigare funnits flytträtt på pensionsförsäkringar i Sverige men dock långt ifrån alla pensionsavtal har omfattats. Samtliga nytecknade försäkringar måste inneha detta numera. Att flytta sitt pensionskapital är ofta förenat med diverse flyttavgifter vilka initialt kan te sig höga.

Many researches have been done about the difficulties in teaching children with disabilities and like in this case dyslexia, which is the disability my essay is focused on. Earlier researches have investigated how and what teachers do practically when they have pupils with dyslexia and what help they have in their work. I wanted to investigate how the theories in National Compulsory School Curriculum (Lpo94) and about inclusive education in relation to the actual work in one Swedish school. My essay, with help of other research, has taken the expression ?school for all? and it?s meaning to what is possible to do in a real life work situation, with the assignments that schools have in Lpo94.

The aim of this study has been to investigate whether people with siblings that have disability have been personally affected when making choices about their studies and careers based on their upbringing with their siblings. The method chosen was qualitative data and consists of six interviews with people who are familiar with the chosen problem area. In conclusion, our results do not show a link between choices of study in relation to the sibling's disabilities. However a link was found between career choices, many choose to work in the area of health and well-being. This link was also found in literature we have researched, people living with disabled siblings have chosen careers and jobs within health and well-being..

Bakgrund: Det rådande pensionssystemet i Sverige består av sex så kallade AP-fonder. Genom åren har pensionssystemet flertalet gånger kritiserats för dess låga avkastning.Problem: Vår huvudfråga är att jämföra AP-fondernas risk och avkastning med aktiemarknaden som helhet, detta ska ske med hjälp av två jämförelseindex: MSCI World och SIXRX.Syfte: Syftet med uppsatsen är att jämföra de fyra första AP-fondernas risk och avkastning med aktiemarknaden som helhet under åren 2002-2010.Metod: Vi har använt oss av en kvantitativ metod, genom att samla in information från AP-fondernas årsredovisningar och hemsidor. Vi har samlat in historisk data, som vi sedan har bearbetat och analyserat.Slutsats: De studerade AP-fonderna har presterat sämre än aktiemarknaden..

Many persons with long-term illness experience a decline in their quality of life. Perceived Quality of Life is a subjective term based on prior personal experiences and is highly individual. The aim of this qualitative study was to investigate perceived Quality of Life in persons with Multiple Sclerosis and to get knowledge if physical therapy changes a person?s quality of life. Three women and three men with a range of disability were interviewed in depth.

Syftet med den här studien är att genom intervjuer ta del av hur individer i åldrarna 20-29, 30-39,40-49 och 50-59 år resonerar om pensionsåldern och pensionssystemet som infördes 1/1-1999. Hos mina informanter är missnöjet stort mot pensionssystemet som de menar inte är rättvist. De menar också att pensionsåldern borde vara mer flexibel utifrån vad för slags arbete individen har haft, men att 65 år är ett bra riktmärke för pensionering. Vidare menar mina informanter att den form av deltidpension som fanns på 1980-talet borde införas igen, då det skulle gynna dem som snart skall gå i pension och de som är arbetslösa. Men det skall inte vara tvång att ta deltidspension utan helt frivilligt och det skall ske i samförstånd med arbetsgivaren.

In today's social work there is an ambition to work evidence-based in order to improve quality and competency in business. This study is made in a disability administration which has introduced a common approach towards users for all employees. The approach is called low arousal approach. The purpose of the study is to investigate how a method takes hold and implements within an organization. The empirical data is analyzed by theories of professionalization, idea dissemination and translation.

Sammanfattning I dagens välfärdsstat förflyttas fokus alltmer från kollektivet till individen. Det övergripande syftet med studien är att fördjupa förståelsen för relationen mellan individen och välfärdsstaten. Studien utgår från följande fråga: hur individualiseringsprocessen artikuleras i olika artiklar i tidningar och tidskrifter? Svaret på frågan söktes med artiklar från olika tidningar och tidskrifter som behandlar vår välfärd som invånarna kan få del av när de blir sjuka eller arbetslösa. Svaret söktes även i hur artiklarna framställer ansvar, effekterna och riskerna i ett individualiserat samhälle.