existing research identifies whether the alignment between risk preferences and portfolio-risk level affects financial … aligns with his or her risk preferences. The finding of this study could potentially help financial planners better …

We suggest a behavioral perspective for the demand for risky assets (DRA) in which the risk-free rate affects this … demand: the lower the risk-free rate the higher the demand for risky assets. This perspective is based on the idea that … quo (or reference point). We begin by demonstrating that when the risk-free rate decreases, DRA increases even among …

wrong perception of the risk-reward potential of an investment. Additionally, the paper analyzes which representation format … is most likely to encourage investment risk taking that is motivated by a biased risk-reward perception. The results … investment than individuals using bar charts. However, the strongest reduction of biased risk taking is achieved with a bar chart …

may differ from it. Investors provide more emphasis for risk associated with variable investment avenues when making their … investment decisions. Different people have different risk tolerance level and it depends on several factors. The objective of … the study is to identify the relationship between demographic factors and investor's risk tolerance. It is found that …

may differ from it. Investors provide more emphasis for risk associated with variable investment avenues when making their … investment decisions. Different people have different risk tolerance level and it depends on several factors. The objective of … the study is to identify the relationship between demographic factors and investor's risk tolerance. It is found that …

We infer which risk model investors use by looking at their capital allocation decisions. We find that investors adjust … for risk using the beta of the Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM). Extensions to the CAPM perform poorly, implying that … they do not help explain how investors measure risk …

individual stock markets and the energy portfolio, which in turn may limit the benefit of risk reduction through diversification …. However, this relation can also be used to hedge the common factor arising from energy risk. Doing so provides benefits to … investors in the form of positive risk adjusted returns, although these are episodic …