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Introduction: The Individual Investor

ICFA Continuing Education Series, 1987
This presentation comes from the Asset Allocation for the Individual Investor conference held in Los Angeles, California, on May 12-13, 1986 and Atlanta, Georgia, on June 4-5, 1986.
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Factors Influencing Individual Investor Behavior

Financial Analysts Journal, 1994
(1994). Factors Influencing Individual Investor Behavior. Financial Analysts Journal: Vol. 50, No. 4, pp. 63-68.
Robert A. Nagy, Robert W. Obenberger
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Can Individual Investors Time Bubbles?

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2014
We document signicant persistence in the ability of individual investors to time the stock market, including during periods that people describe as bubbles. Using data on all trades by individual Finnish investors over more than 14 years, we show that investors who successfully time the market in the rst half of the sample are more likely to ...
Jussi Keppo, Tyler Shumway, Daniel Weagley   +2 more
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The Behavior of Individual Investors

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2011
Abstract We provide an overview of research on the stock trading behavior of individual investors. This research documents that individual investors (1) underperform standard benchmarks (e.g. a low-cost index fund), (2) sell winning investments while holding losing investments (the “disposition effect”), (3) are heavily influenced by limited ...
Brad M. Barber, Terrance Odean
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Identifying Stewardship Mutual Fundsfor Individual Investors

The Journal of Investing, 2012
Since the mutual funds scandal in 2003, it has become increasingly clear that thoughtful, long-term individual investors should invest in “stewardship funds.” This is especially so as subsequent laws and regulations are inadequately motivated to ensure the primary fiduciary interests of mutual fund shareholders.
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Portfolio Rebalancing by Individual Investors

2017
In this chapter, we replicate the study of the rebalancing of mutual funds’ equity portfolios by Giannetti and Laeven (2016) on individual investors in Sweden. The authors find that mutual fund managers rebalance their equity portfolios, during time periods of high market volatility, by selling relatively fewer equities of local firms than of remote ...
Ted Lindblom, Taylan Mavruk, Stefan Sjögren   +2 more
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Individual Investors and Volatility

2008
We test the hypothesis that individual investors contribute to the idiosyncratic volatility of stock returns because they act as noise traders. To this end, we consider a reform that makes short selling or buying on margin more expensive for retail investors relative to institutions, for a subset of French stocks. If retail investors are noise traders,
Foucault, Thierry, Thesmar, David, Sraer, David   +2 more
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Marketing to the Individual Investor

ICFA Continuing Education Series, 1988
This presentation comes from the Serving the Individual Investor conference held in Boston, Massachusetts, on April 27, 1988.
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Individual investors and stock returns

Journal of Asset Management, 2016
This article examines the relationship between the S&P 500 stock index and the S&P 500 sentiment index compiled by the American Association of Individual Investors. The empirical investigation is based on ordinary least squares and quantile regressions during the period from 1987 to 2015. The main finding supports the idea that the individual investors
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Individual investors and risk-taking

Journal of Economic Psychology, 1982
Abstract During the last decade, a large amount of information has been collected concerning financial markets and financial institutions. Less is known about individual investors. This study relates a specific personality characteristics, locus of control, to portfolio risk as measured by beta; these two concepts are described below.
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