It is a universally accepted principle that risk and return of investing are commensurate. However, people give more importance to return and risk takes a back seat. This study is an attempt to understand the perceptions of 120 investors in Gandhinagar region towards risk and return of investing...

We investigate whether myopic behavior influences respondents' risk perception of future stock market returns. Using the 2012 wave of the Health and Retirement Study, we find that investors who are myopic (follow the stock market “very closely” or “somewhat closely”) are more likely to...