This paper verified the impact of the investment horizon in the allocation of an optimized portfolio. To do so, we generated efficient frontiers from a group of diversified global asset classes considering time series of returns of the past 10 years. It was possible to prove that the investment...

This research verifies the existence of the aversion to uncertainty bias in individual financial decisions. It also evaluates the effects of gender and knowledge in this bias. We considered a sample of 80 undergraduate management students from Universidade Católica de Brasília. The results...

Credit rating is an index for classifying credit risk that attributes scores based on investor trust and confidence in the company issuing bonds in the financial market. This article studies rating as signs of default (insolvency) in companies. Fitch Ratings was used due to the transparency of...

This study analyzes group influence on investment decisions in an attempt to determine the correlation between two financial behavior tendencies: overconfidence and herding behavior. An experiment was carried out with 92 students from the Universidade Católica de Brasília. The results...