She's built for it: differential investment performance in South Africa based on gender
dc.contributor.advisor | West, Darron | en_ZA |
dc.contributor.author | Willows, Gizelle | en_ZA |
dc.date.accessioned | 2015-01-11T05:03:59Z | |
dc.date.available | 2015-01-11T05:03:59Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2012 | en_ZA |
dc.description | Includes abstract. | en_ZA |
dc.description | Includes bibliographical references. | en_ZA |
dc.description.abstract | 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. | en_ZA |
dc.identifier.apacitation | Willows, G. (2012). <i>She's built for it: differential investment performance in South Africa based on gender</i>. (Thesis). University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Commerce ,Department of Finance and Tax. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/11427/12075 | en_ZA |
dc.identifier.chicagocitation | Willows, Gizelle. <i>"She's built for it: differential investment performance in South Africa based on gender."</i> Thesis., University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Commerce ,Department of Finance and Tax, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/12075 | en_ZA |
dc.identifier.citation | Willows, G. 2012. She's built for it: differential investment performance in South Africa based on gender. University of Cape Town. | en_ZA |
dc.identifier.ris | TY - Thesis / Dissertation AU - Willows, Gizelle AB - 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. DA - 2012 DB - OpenUCT DP - University of Cape Town LK - https://open.uct.ac.za PB - University of Cape Town PY - 2012 T1 - She's built for it: differential investment performance in South Africa based on gender TI - She's built for it: differential investment performance in South Africa based on gender UR - http://hdl.handle.net/11427/12075 ER - | en_ZA |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11427/12075 | |
dc.identifier.vancouvercitation | Willows G. She's built for it: differential investment performance in South Africa based on gender. [Thesis]. University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Commerce ,Department of Finance and Tax, 2012 [cited yyyy month dd]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/11427/12075 | en_ZA |
dc.language.iso | eng | en_ZA |
dc.publisher.department | Department of Finance and Tax | en_ZA |
dc.publisher.faculty | Faculty of Commerce | en_ZA |
dc.publisher.institution | University of Cape Town | |
dc.subject.other | Financial Management | en_ZA |
dc.title | She's built for it: differential investment performance in South Africa based on gender | en_ZA |
dc.type | Master Thesis | |
dc.type.qualificationlevel | Masters | |
dc.type.qualificationname | MCom | en_ZA |
uct.type.filetype | Text | |
uct.type.filetype | Image | |
uct.type.publication | Research | en_ZA |
uct.type.resource | Thesis | en_ZA |
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