scholarly journals Demographic Factors and Herding Behaviour of Investors: Moderating Role of Islamic Religiosity

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 193-203
Author(s):  
Saeed Ahmad Sabir ◽  
Tasawar Javed ◽  
Waseem Ul Hameed ◽  
Hummaira Qudsia Yousaf
Keyword(s):  
Quantitative Research ◽  
Stock Exchange ◽  
Investment Decision ◽  
Demographic Factors ◽  
Individual Investors ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Investment Decision Making ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
Moderating Role

Investors indulge in biases while making investment decision because investment decision making in stock market is a difficult process. One of the factors that affect risk taking behaviour of individual investors is Demographic factor. However, little work has been done to investigate the effect of demographic factors on herding behaviour of individual investors of Pakistan stock exchange. Therefore, the ultimate aim of this study is to highlight the role of the effect of demographic factors on herding behavior of investors with moderating role of Islamic religiosity. Quantitative research method was employed and data collected was collected from 166 individual investors by using survey questionnaires. Convenience sampling method was used to collect the data. Partial Least Squares analysis was conducted to test the hypotheses. The findings of this study directed that Islamic religiosity moderate the relationship of demographic factors with herding behaviour. This study is contributed a new empirical insights on behaviour of Pakistan stock market’s investors, therefore the results of this study have implications for policy makers of Pakistan stock exchange (PSX) while they making the strategies related to investment.

scholarly journals Impact of Behavioral Biases on Investment Decision Making with Moderating Role of Financial Literacy

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 34-41
Author(s):  
Rizwan Khalid ◽  
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Muhammad Javed ◽  
Khurram Shahzad ◽  
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...  
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Financial Literacy ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Investment Decision ◽  
Structure Questionnaire ◽  
Investment Decision Making ◽  
Overconfidence Bias ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Moderating Role

The objective of this study is to examine the Impact of Overconfidence bias and Herding bias on Investment Decision Making with Moderating Role of Financial Literacy. The population was Investor, Employee and Graduate Student. A sample of 200 was selected using convenience technique. Data were collected through structure questionnaire adopted from different papers. Correlation and Regression analysis were performed to examine the result. The Results show that overconfidence bias and herding bias have a positive impact on investment decision making and Financial Literacy has positive impact on investment decision making. Based on the results and discussions of the study findings as well as the limitations, theoretical and practical implications of the study have been provided.

scholarly journals An Analysis of Behavioral Biases in Investment Decision-Making

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 55 ◽  
Author(s):  
Geetika Madaan ◽  
Sanjeet Singh
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Stock Exchange ◽  
Investment Decision ◽  
Investment Decisions ◽  
Individual Investors ◽  
Behavioral Biases ◽  
Investment Decision Making ◽  
Survey Responses ◽  
The Impact

Individual investor’s behavior is extensively influenced by various biases that highlighted in the growing discipline of behavior finance. Therefore, this study is also one of another effort to assess the impact of behavioral biases in investment decision-making in National Stock Exchange. A questionnaire is designed and through survey responses collected from 243 investors. The present research has applied inferential statistics and descriptive statistics. In the existing study, four behavioral biases have been reviewed namely, overconfidence, anchoring, disposition effect and herding behavior. The results show that overconfidence and herding bias have significant positive impact on investment decision. Overall results conclude that individual investors have limited knowledge and more prone towards making psychological errors. The findings of the study also indicate the existence of these four behavioral biases on individual investment decisions. This study will be helpful to financial intermediaries to advice their clients. Further, study can be elaborated to study other behavioral biases on investment decisions.

scholarly journals The Influence of Behavioural Finance Factors and the Moderating Effects of Contextual and Demographic Factors on Individual Investor’s Investment Performance

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 101
Author(s):  
Tuan Hamidon ◽  
Sampath Kehelwalatenna
Keyword(s):  
Stock Exchange ◽  
Investment Decision ◽  
Individual Investors ◽  
Investment Performance ◽  
Behavioural Finance ◽  
Investment Decision Making ◽  
Study Results ◽  
Aggregate Effect ◽  
Market Factors ◽  
The Relationship

Individual investors trading at the Colombo Stock Exchange (CSE), Sri Lanka, behave irrationally despite objective finance models available for them to refer in making rational decisions. Therefore this paper examines the irrationality by testing whether behavioural finance factors (BF), stock broker’s recommendations (SBR) as a contextual factor, and individual investor’s existing knowledge of the stock market (EK) as a demographic factor affect individual investor’s investment performance (IP). Heuristic behaviour, prospect behaviour and market factors were conceptualised as independent variables of the study whereas SBR and EK act as moderators on the relationship between BF and IP. Data of 221 individual investors of CSE during first half of 2019 were analyzed using structural models to draw empirical evidence to test hypotheses of the study. Results of the study reveal that market information and past stock trends as market factors have a significant bearing on investment decision making, which ultimately affect IP, while the aggregate effect of BF upholds a significant impact on IP. The results expose some novel findings such as: investors receive inferior financial returns when imitating other investors’ trading behaviour whilst trading on SBR; receive lower returns once trading on market factors whilst resuming SBR; and receive mediocre returns when EK is affirmative whilst following other investors’ decisions; and suffer losses when trading on market factors whilst exploiting EK. The findings imply that the stock brokers should not merely consider the output of objective finance models, but market wide herding, market manipulations, market factors and EK in investment recommendations.

scholarly journals EFFECT OF EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE AND FINANCIAL LITERACY ON INVESTMENT DECISION MAKING WITH A MEDIATING ROLE OF RISK PERCEPTION

2014 ◽  
Vol 02 (02) ◽  
pp. 12-20
Author(s):  
Sahar Parvez ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Emotional Intelligence ◽  
Risk Perception ◽  
Financial Literacy ◽  
Stock Exchange ◽  
Investment Decision ◽  
Investment Decisions ◽  
Mediating Role ◽  
Investment Decision Making ◽  
The Impact

This research paper examines the impact of emotional intelligence and financial literacy on investment decision with a mediating role of risk perception. The data is collected by using questionnaire, from a sample of 152 investors, from stock exchange and banks. The results support that to make adequate investment decisions, investors should be financially literate and have control on their emotions. However, risk perception of investors does not mediate this relationship.

scholarly journals Impact of Behavioral Biases on Investment Performance in Pakistan: The Moderating Role of Financial Literacy

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 1199-1205
Author(s):  
Amir Rafique ◽  
Muhammad Umer Quddoos ◽  
Usama Kalim ◽  
Muhammad Ramzan Sheikh
Keyword(s):  
Financial Literacy ◽  
Stock Exchange ◽  
Investment Decisions ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
Investment Performance ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Behavioral Biases ◽  
Structured Equation Modeling ◽  
Moderating Role

This study aims at understanding the relationships of certain behavioral biases with the investment performance, and identifies the moderating role of financial literacy upon these hypothesized relationships. Data is collected through questionnaire from the investors trading at Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX). Structured Equation Modeling (SEM) is used to analyze the data with the results that only anchoring and overconfidence biases have significant effects on investment performance. The results also show that presence of financial literacy does not play any role in improving the performance of investors. Majorly, findings of current study contribute by testing the moderating role of financial literacy between the behavioral biases and the outcome of investment decisions and thus expected to be useful for investors and policy makers.  

scholarly journals Factors Affecting Investment Decision Making: Moderating Role of Investors Characteristics

2019 ◽  
pp. 1311-1320
Author(s):  
Salam A. Alshamy
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Corporate Governance ◽  
Investment Decision ◽  
Financial Education ◽  
Financial Information ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Investment Decision Making ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

The current study aimed to investigate the factors affecting investment decision making. Moreover, the moderating effects of age, gender, and financial information were also tested. The study utilized a quantitative research design for that the data was collected using a structured questionnaire. The questionnaire was sent to 570 individuals out of that 374 questionnaires were returned however 372 of the questionnaires were found to be useable. The study framework had 6 constructs namely heuristics, financial information, corporate governance, risk aversion, and experience were independent variables while investment decision making was dependent variable while age, gender and financial education were moderating variables. All the latent construct were measured using multi items based on 5 point Likert scales from 1 strongly disagree to 5 strongly disagree. The results found the Heuristics, Risk Aversion, Financial Information, Corporate Governance and Experience to be significant factors affecting the investment decision making. Moreover, the moderating effect of gender was found to be significant in the relationship of (financial information, corporate governance, and experience) and investment decision making. The moderating effect of age was found to be significant in the relationship of (Heuristics, Corporate Governance, and Experience) and investment decision making while the moderating role of financial education was found to be significant in the relationship of (financial information, corporte governance and experience) and investment decision making.

scholarly journals UKURAN PERUSAHAAN DAN TINGKAT LEVERAGE SEBAGAI PENDORONG PENERAPAN HEDGING UNTUK MENEKAN RISIKO IDIOSINKRATIK

AJAR ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (02) ◽  
pp. 19-48
Author(s):  
Cesilia Novita Simarmata ◽  
Suwandi Ng ◽  
Fransiskus E. Daromes
Keyword(s):  
Firm Size ◽  
Factor Model ◽  
Stock Exchange ◽  
Investment Decision ◽  
Idiosyncratic Risk ◽  
Natural Logarithm ◽  
Investment Decision Making ◽  
Equity Ratio ◽  
Fama And French

This research aims to investigate the role of firm size and leverage to be determinants of hedging application in order to suppress idiosyncratic risk. This research measured firm size using natural logarithm of total assets, debt to equity ratio for leverage, dummy variable for hedging activity, and Three Factor Model by Fama and French for idiosyncratic risk. The main theory used in these research are signaling theory and agency theory. The population used is non-financial companies listed on the Indonesian Stock Exchange for period of 2013-2017. The number of samples are 94 firms each year, selected by purposive sampling method. This research used documentary data, such as the annual report and financial statements. This research also used path analysis to analyze the data and sobel test to analyze the mediation role of hedging. The results of this research show that firm size and leverage have a positive and significant effect to hedging. Firm size has a positive but not significant effect to idiosyncratic risk, whilst leverage has a positive and significant effect to the latter. Firm size has a significant effect to idiosyncratic risk through hedging activity as mediator. Surprisingly, leverage does not need hedging to mediate its effect to idiosyncratic risk. This research is expected to be a reference for management to improve firm performance so it could gain investor trusts through hedging application as financial strategy. Investor could also use the results of this research as considerations for investment decision making.

scholarly journals The Behavior Patterns of Investors in Thailand Stock Market

2017 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 155
Author(s):  
Quan Nhu Tran
Keyword(s):  
Stock Market ◽  
Stock Prices ◽  
Stock Exchange ◽  
Investment Decision ◽  
Behavior Patterns ◽  
Individual Investors ◽  
True Value ◽  
Investment Decision Making ◽  
Depth Interview ◽  
Decision Making Processes

The purpose of this paper is to investigate behavioral patterns expressed by investors in the Thailand stock market. The paper examines investment decision-making processes in the context of the current financial market in Thailand to shed some light on behavioral-induced pattern behind such investments. Data for this research was collated from 8 individual investors by semi-structured and in-depth interview. There are four behavioral factors of individual investors in Thailand Stock Exchange: Overconfidence, Excessive Optimism, Psychology of risk, and Herding Behavior. Securities Companies may also use the findings of this research for better understanding on investors’ decision to give better recommendations to them. Stock prices then reflect their true value and Thailand stock market becomes the yardstick of the economy’s wealth and helps enterprises to raise capital for business activities.

scholarly journals Impact of Behavioral Factors in Making Investment Decisions and Performance: Evidence from Pakistan Stock Exchange

Market Forces ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 22
Author(s):  
Muhammad Rehan ◽  
Jahanzaib Alvi ◽  
Lubna Javed ◽  
Baber Saleem
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Behavioral Finance ◽  
Stock Exchange ◽  
Investment Decision ◽  
Investment Decisions ◽  
Individual Investors ◽  
Behavioral Factors ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Investment Decision Making ◽  
The Impact

Market irregularities and irrational behavior triggered investor’s changes in the stock market, and this has led to an investigation into the impact of various behavioral biases and factors affecting decision-making for individual investors. The quality of individual investor behavior in making stock investment decisions is very important to be understood as a reference of the movement of the capital market. This study investigated the role of behavioral finance and investor psychology in investment decision-making at the Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSE). Using a sample of 147 individual investors, the study established that behavioral factors such as Herding, Heuristic, Market and Prospect that affected the decisions of the investors operating at the Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSE). As there are a few studies in Pakistan related to behavioral finance, so this study mainly contributes to the field of behavioral finance in Pakistan. This study focusses on existing theories of behavioral finance which led to develop the hypothesis. The result of the analysis is that the four variables have greatly influenced the investment decision and return on investment. All behavioral variables have a significant impact on the decision-making process of investors, which led to the acceptance of all assumptions regarding the level of influence of behavioral factors in decision making for individual investors

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