This paper aims to empirically verify whether an individual European investor can enhance the diversification of his … the long term risk-return profile of a conventional asset allocation. The diversification benefits are realizable even …

well in terms of diversification even for those investors worried about the alpha of funds. The benefits of diversification …

diversification across large shareholders. Exploiting this heterogeneity, we document that firms controlled by diversified large … shareholder diversification on corporate risk-taking is both economically and statistically significant. Our results have … welfare. -- Risk-taking choices ; Large shareholders ; Portfolio diversification …

diversification across large shareholders. Exploiting this heterogeneity, we document that firms controlled by diversified large … shareholder diversification on corporate risk-taking is both economically and statistically significant. Our results have …

diversification behavior. This issue is relevant in that investors are increasingly in charge of their own financial security, but … diversification: what they do is to split equally their wealth among the asset classes available, in a naïve way. We try to detect if … willing to take. Moreover, only those who are literate in terms of diversification select less risky portfolios; the others …

This paper studies the link between individual investors' portfolio diversification levels and various personal traits … show higher diversification levels possibly because they are better equipped to obtain and process information. Finance … professionals, married investors, and those placing high-volume orders through investment centers show poorer diversification …

correlation explains both the limited diversification property and the portfolio inertia property in household portfolios and … retirement accounts. We further provide simulation evidences of the limited diversification and portfolio inertia feature of the …