Realized Returns on Common Stock Investments: The Experience of Individual Investors

1978 ◽  
Vol 51 (2) ◽  
pp. 299 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gary G. Schlarbaum ◽  
Wilbur G. Lewellen ◽  
Ronald C. Lease
Keyword(s):  
Common Stock ◽  
Individual Investors ◽  
Stock Investments

Investment environment, stock market perception and stock investments after stock market crash

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohammad Tariqul Islam Khan ◽  
Siow-Hooi Tan ◽  
Lee-Lee Chong ◽  
Gerald Guan Gan Goh
Keyword(s):  
Stock Market ◽  
Market Performance ◽  
Mediating Effect ◽  
Individual Investors ◽  
Investment Environment ◽  
Stock Market Crash ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Stock Market Performance ◽  
Market Perception ◽  
Stock Investments

PurposeThis study examines how the importance of external investment environment factors affect stock market perception, and how stock market perception affects stock investments after stock market crash witnessed by individual investors in one of the emerging stock markets.Design/methodology/approachA cross-sectional survey was administrated among 223 individual investors who experienced stock market crash in 2010–2011 in Bangladesh, and the proposed model was tested by the partial least squares-structural equation modeling PLS-SEM model.FindingsFindings show that the importance of Bangladesh's stock market performance, government policy, economic issues and neighboring country's stock market performance has effects on investors' stock market perception. This perception, in turn, decreases monthly stock trading and short-term investment horizon. The findings further show the mediating effect of stock market perception.Practical implicationsInvestors need to carefully consider the external investment environment when they form their stock market perception, as this perception drives stock investments. Analogously, regulators should ensure releasing timely and updated statistics on external investment factors.Originality/valueAddressing those investors who encountered stock market crash, a set of external investment environment issues, stock market perception and stock investments are new in the literature.

ASSESSMENT OF INDIVIDUAL AND INSTITUTIONAL INVESTOR’S INVESTMENT BEHAVIOR DURING COVID-19: A CASE OF EMERGING ECONOMY

2020 ◽  
Vol 01 (01) ◽  
pp. 93-104
Author(s):  
Aamir Sohail ◽  
Abid Hussain ◽  
Farhad Hussain
Keyword(s):  
Stock Exchange ◽  
Data Interpretation ◽  
Individual Investors ◽  
Investment Behavior ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Fund Managers ◽  
Stock Investment ◽  
Retail Investors ◽  
Stock Investments ◽  
Ability Bias

In study of stock investment in the capital market by investors in Pandemic Covid-19, it is always carried out rationally. Decisions on stock investments are not always rational. main purpose of research is to analyze behavioral factors that affect preferences of individual’s investors and fund managers in emerging stock market, Pakistan Stock Exchange. The data of this research were “collected through semi-structured interviews with five fund managers and five individual investors” from Pakistan Stock Exchange. The researchers used thematic analysis for data interpretation. The major findings stress that retail investors are more effected by behavioral biases in comparison with fund managers. The results shows that there are some major biases which are affecting both type of investors like overconfidence-gambling, herding, market, prospect, errors and anchoring-ability bias. Data for this study was collected for one time only, for better understanding data may be collected for more than one time in future. Triangulation method may be directed in future for further clarification in existing study.

DETERMINANTS OF THE EXECUTION COSTS OF COMMON STOCK TRADES BY INDIVIDUAL INVESTORS

1986 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 291-301 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gerald A. Blum ◽  
William A. Kracaw ◽  
Wilbur G. Lewellen
Keyword(s):  
Common Stock ◽  
Individual Investors ◽  
Execution Costs
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