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The factors that influence investors behaviour while making investment decision at the Industrial Development Corporation

Mini Dissertation (MBA)--University of Pretoria, 2019.

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spelling oai:repository.up.ac.za:2263/74001 The factors that influence investors behaviour while making investment decision at the Industrial Development Corporation Thayser, Dave ichelp@gibs.co.za Mwela, Sandra Tumelo UCTD Mini Dissertation (MBA)--University of Pretoria, 2019. Behavioural finance is the study of psychology and cognitive biases and how these impact on the decision-making of the investor. These biases affect the decisions that the investor makes. The research was conducted to understand whether the investors at the IDC are impacted by the same biases that impact investors who invest in the stock market. Most of the research was conducted on investors investing in the stock market and not in corporate companies. Investors at the IDC invest in corporate entities. The five biases that were investigated are heuristics, regret aversion, anchoring, overconfidence and financial cognitive dissonance. A qualitative research study was conducted using semi-structured interviews to interviews investors at the IDC. A total of Twelve interviews were conducted with investors who had been working at the IDC for over five years. These investors were from various industries at the IDC, which are agro-processing, automotive, basic and speciality chemicals, capital equipment heavy manufacturing, media and motion pictures and textiles. The findings revealed that the investors at the IDC experienced the same biases as investors in the stock market. The results also showed the advantages and disadvantages of investors having biases. The study’s limitation was that the research was only conducted at the IDC. tk2020 Gordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS) MBA 2020-04-06T10:00:15Z 2020-04-06T10:00:15Z 2020/04/01 2019 Mini Dissertation Mwela, ST 2019, The factors that influence investors behaviour while making investment decision at the Industrial Development Corporation, MBA Mini Dissertation, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, viewed yymmdd <http://hdl.handle.net/2263/74001> http://hdl.handle.net/2263/74001 en © 2020 University of Pretoria. All rights reserved. The copyright in this work vests in the University of Pretoria. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the University of Pretoria. application/pdf University of Pretoria
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The factors that influence investors behaviour while making investment decision at the Industrial Development Corporation
title The factors that influence investors behaviour while making investment decision at the Industrial Development Corporation
title_full The factors that influence investors behaviour while making investment decision at the Industrial Development Corporation
title_fullStr The factors that influence investors behaviour while making investment decision at the Industrial Development Corporation
title_full_unstemmed The factors that influence investors behaviour while making investment decision at the Industrial Development Corporation
title_short The factors that influence investors behaviour while making investment decision at the Industrial Development Corporation
title_sort factors that influence investors behaviour while making investment decision at the industrial development corporation
topic UCTD
url http://hdl.handle.net/2263/74001