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Showing 1 to 20 of 59 for “"Individual investors"”.
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Alternative investment opportunities in real estate for individual investors
… investment opportunities exists on the behalf of individual investors via their Individual Retirement Accounts (IRAs) and 401(k)s and, if so, what the optimal investment structure is to accommodate that need given certain investment parameters. Institutional Investors, with few exceptions, …
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Individual investors, social media and Chinese stock market : a correlation study
… financial market where heavy involvement of individual investors exists. This article explores how the sentiment expressed on social media is correlated with the stock market in China. Textual analysis for posts from one of the most popular social media in China is conducted based on Hownet …
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Capital for communities : connecting community development loan funds to individual investors
… During these years of economic recession, individuals' confidence in the financial system declined while the Socially Responsible Investing and Impact Investing sectors experienced significant growth. With these concurrent trends as a starting point, this thesis explores the potential for …
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Three Essays on Individual Investors’ Early Exercise Behavior in the Fixed-Income Market
Diese Arbeit untersucht, wie Privatinvestoren vorzeitige Kündigungsrechte in strukturierten Zinsprodukten nutzen. Als Grundlage für die Analyse dient hierbei ein neuartiger, nicht öffentlich verfügbarer Datensatz, der über einen Zeitraum von circa 13 Jahren Entscheidungen von mehr als 800.000 …
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The value of financial advice : an analysis of the investment performance of advised and non-advised individual investors
… market through the advice that they offer investors. Behavioural finance has demonstrated that individual investors do not always behave in a rational manner, unlike financial advisors who seem not be prone to the behavioural biases that individuals experience when investment decisions are …
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Holistic Approach to the Factors Affecting Individual Investor’s Decision Making in the GCC Markets: Evidence from Oman and Saudi Arabia
Behavioural finance studies have documented that investors are subject to psychological factors (cognitive and emotional) and demographic factors (internal), and external factors that make their financial decisions less than fully rational. However, most of these studies have concentrated on …
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The use and usefulness of managed fund ratings in Australia
… rating companies compete for the attention of individual investors and financial advisers, two key target markets of managed fund rating suppliers. A survey of a sample of informed individual investors from the Australian Shareholder Association demonstrates that a consumer behaviour framework …
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Corporate performance measures and stocks' prices returns: the case of Greece, 1992-2001
… Companies, Listed Companies, brokers, and Individual Investors) participating in the ASE to determine their investing practices. Data from 435 returned questionnaires revealed that although the professional investors follow the international practices (use fundamental analysis mostly), the …
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Analysis on the KOSPI200 option from the time-series and cross- sectional perspectives
… market in 2011. In this thesis, I examine why investors have traded KOSPI200 options so much among various equity index options in many global exchanges, and which factors have caused the change of the trading volume of the KOSPI200 options. From the cross-sectional perspective, I find that …
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Essays in financial economics
… wealth redistribution between institutional and individual investors. I find that underwriter 'Strong Buy' recommendations for IPOs exhibit inferior performance. For other positive recommendations - 'Buys' for IPOs, and 'Strong Buys' and 'Buys' for SEOs - there are no significant differences …
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Behavioral Finance: Factors Influencing Angel Investor Decisions
<p>Angel investors are individual investors who invest in high-risk projects without the assistance of professional portfolio advisors and are an important source of early-stage entrepreneurial financing. When providing financing, an angel must decide how much time to spend on due diligence, the …
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Dynamic trading and behavioral finance
… costs. When applied to a large sample of individual U.S. stocks, we show that tight stop-loss strategies tend to underperform the buy-and- hold policy due to excessive trading costs. Outperformance is possible for stocks with sufficiently high serial correlation in returns. Certain …
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She's built for it: differential investment performance in South Africa based on gender
Research in behavioural finance has shown that individuals do not always behave rationally. As a result of this they do not make investment decisions in such a way as to maximise their expect- ed utility. Certain behavioural biases have been found to explain this behaviour. Furthermore, differences …
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An Empirical Analysis of Financial Optimism and Portfolio Choice
… the relationship between financial optimism and individual investors’ portfolio choice. I also investigate whether optimism benefits an investor’s objective and subjective well-being within the same study by using large-scale survey data. I then explore how feedback, framing, and personality, …
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Analyzing Price Limit Policy Under a Theoretical Framework
… the effects of having price limits on individual investors from institutional investors. According to our model, hitting price limits can be summarized to eight different short-term scenarios and each results in different effects on the direction of price movement and short-term …
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Long term portfolio construction
Financial analyst commonly advice individual investors with a long investment horizon to invest in portfolios comprised more of equities. This advice is usually coupled with the practice of shifting the investor's portfolio from risky asset holdings towards bonds and cash as the investor's target …
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Essays in Market Microstructure
… by my additional finding that institutional investors are more likely to place underlying stock limit orders less aggressively than individual investors. My findings indicate that standing underlying stock limit orders play an important role in price discovery between options and underlying …
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Investor sentiment, institutional investors and the accrual anomaly : an empirical analysis of China's listed companies
The accrual anomaly is a phenomenon that investors gain future abnormal returns through accruals-based hedge portfolios. This paper first shows that China's institutional investors have a better understanding of the persistence of accounting accruals and they more accurately assess stock prices, …
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Hot Stocks and Cold Comfort: A Comparative Study of Optimism in Financial News and Household Participation in Equity Markets in the U.S., France, and Hong Kong, 1985-2008
I use computer-assisted textual content analysis to detect systematic reporting bias in financial news articles from 1985-2008 in the U.S., France, and Hong Kong in order to discern whether such biases contribute to country-level differences in household participation in equity markets. Today about …
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German public real estate open-ended funds in Japan
… real estate investment vehicle for German individual investors, is now suffering a strong pressure of globalization from its investors because of the sluggish German domestic real estate market. In order to deal with such pressure, many funds have begun to invest in the US and now looking …
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