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She's built for it: differential investment performance in South Africa based on gender
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Department of Finance and Tax
2015
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| access_status_str | Open Access |
| author | Willows, Gizelle |
| author2 | West, Darron |
| author_browse | West, Darron Willows, Gizelle |
| author_facet | West, Darron Willows, Gizelle |
| author_sort | Willows, Gizelle |
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| institution | University of Cape Town (South Africa) |
| language | eng |
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| publishDate | 2015 |
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| spelling | oai:open.uct.ac.za:11427/12075 She's built for it: differential investment performance in South Africa based on gender Willows, Gizelle West, Darron Financial Management Includes abstract. Includes bibliographical references. Research in behavioural finance has shown that individuals do not always behave rationally. As a result of this they do not make investment decisions in such a way as to maximise their expect- ed utility. Certain behavioural biases have been found to explain this behaviour. Furthermore, differences have been observed in how these biases manifest in men and women. Men have been found to be more overconfident when estimating their own skills and chances of success. Hence, they tend to exhibit stronger self-efficacy and self-attribution biases. Differentials in the risk preferences of men and women are apparent: men display higher risk tolerances and women are more risk averse. A sample of 19,021 individual investors from a South African investment house was analysed over five years (2007 - 2011) in order to draw conclusions on the trading behaviour. 2015-01-11T05:03:59Z 2015-01-11T05:03:59Z 2012 Master Thesis Masters MCom http://hdl.handle.net/11427/12075 eng application/pdf Department of Finance and Tax Faculty of Commerce University of Cape Town |
| spellingShingle | Financial Management Willows, Gizelle She's built for it: differential investment performance in South Africa based on gender |
| thesis_degree_str | Master's |
| title | She's built for it: differential investment performance in South Africa based on gender |
| title_full | She's built for it: differential investment performance in South Africa based on gender |
| title_fullStr | She's built for it: differential investment performance in South Africa based on gender |
| title_full_unstemmed | She's built for it: differential investment performance in South Africa based on gender |
| title_short | She's built for it: differential investment performance in South Africa based on gender |
| title_sort | she s built for it differential investment performance in south africa based on gender |
| topic | Financial Management |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/11427/12075 |
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