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Using harmonized wealth data and a novel decomposition approach, we show that cohort effects exist in the income profiles of asset and debt portfolios for a sample of European countries, the U.S. and Canada. We find that younger households’ participation decisions in assets are more responsive...
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), we report that TGPF members are relatively more risk averse, exhibit a greater home investment bias, and over-react to … investment decisions under a defined contribution self-management option. Using an asset allocation dataset from members of the … engineering and to continue to lobby for restrictive investment ceilings to be revised …
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Using harmonized wealth data and a novel decomposition approach, we show that cohort effects exist in the income profiles of asset and debt portfolios for a sample of European countries, the U.S. and Canada. We find that younger households' participation decisions in assets are more responsive...
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This study provides evidence that investors' demographic similarity to CEOs facilitates informed trading after accounting for selective distribution of information. Mutual fund managers overweight firms whose CEOs resemble them in terms of age, ethnicity, and gender. Significantly higher trade...
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language may influence risk perception and investment behavior, no study has explored the causal effects of linguistic … investment decisions is amplified by risk perception. Investor characteristics that significantly affect their risk perception … investors to earnings call excerpts with randomized levels of uncertainty. The subjects were engaged in an investment game and …
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paper we address two issues related to the effects of MLA on risky investment decisions. First, we assess the relative … impact of feedback frequency and investment flexibility (via the investment horizon) on risky investments. Second, given that … we observe higher investments with a longer investment horizon, we examine conditions under which investors might …
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towards low-risk investment options like cash, across all age ranges, only investing in higher-risk instruments much later … less prominent as income level rises. The risk-averse investment style seen in the findings for all South African investors …Individual investment decision-making theory revolves around the logical choices an investor is expected to make to …
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The article deals with the psychological determinants of investment decisions made by an individual investor on the … the context of capital investment. The results of the nationwide survey of 564 individual investors are based on analyses …
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We introduce a new class of momentum strategies, the risk-adjusted time series momentum (RAMOM) strategies, which are … how these volatility measures can be used for risk management. We find that momentum risk management significantly … increases Sharpe ratios, but at the same time may lead to more pronounced negative skewness and tail risk. Furthermore, momentum …
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various hedge fund strategies and discusses the various risk and return statistics over the two popular Fund of Funds Indices … are an Investment Professional or academic who would like to discuss the original research, please contact me on my email … weight across all the hedge fund strategies with rebalancing. The second strategy is a risk weighted portfolio of hedge fund …
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