Financial sector is always full of insecurity, owing to volatility in the financial sector, most of the investors fails to book the profit. It has been observed in this study that maximum percentage of return of a security or indices follows the Benford's law when price of the security or indices breaks the volume weighted moving average in upper trend. Results of this study can be used by...

Emphasising the scope for further growth in institutional investment, in Europe in particular, this paper focuses on the impact of institutional investment on the efficiency and stability of financial systems. The paper stresses the scope for efficiency gains arising from an increasing role of institutional investors, reflecting – inter alia – their role in improving corporate governance. The p...

Intelligent investors differ from speculative or non-professional in the fact that intelligent act countercyclically; is, they against trend, otherwise, buy when prices have already fallen and sell their rate of selected investment has risen. An example countercyclical behavior can also be explained by thinking professional investor Warren Buffett, who points out a simple rule: "Be scared other...

Research Question/Issue This study investigates the relationship between financial literacy and survival profile of security?based crowdfunding platforms. Security?based has recently emerged as a novel market that allows small investors to engage directly in financing entrepreneurial ventures. However, certain level is required understand manage these digital finance tools. A better understand...

This study aims to determine the effect of financial literacy and information technology knowledge on motivation millennial generation invest in shares Indonesian Stock Exchange. The population this are investors who have joined two securities companies Exchange, namely Mirae Aset Sekuritas Phintraco Sekuritas. Determination number samples using purposive sampling method, only those willing fil...

Every year, two thirds of college seniors (about 1.8 million) in the US graduate with significant debts, but most of them are poorly equipped with essential financial knowledge to manage their debts and make intelligent financial decisions. Programming courses are uniquely positioned to offer opportunities to help students improve financial literacy. However, there have been no integrated cours...

Online P2P lending marketplaces match individual lenders and borrowers for unsecured loans via real-time auction without financial institutions as an intermediary. This paper aims to build up a theoretical framework from the perspectives of informational social influence and herding behavior to explain how individual investors’ participation of online financial community influence their credit ...

Did fair value accounting play a role in the current financial crisis? This appendix explores the issue. Fair value accounting implies that assets and liabilities get measured and reflected on a firm`s financial statements at their market value, or close substitutes. Extensive academic research done over the past 20 years shows that financial statements that reflect the market values of assets ...

This chapter demonstrates that a person’s level of cognitive abilities is a key determinant of financial decisions. Households with high cognitive abilities tend to participate more in the stock market and accumulate more financial wealth than households with low cognitive abilities. Upon participation, portfolio performance improves with experience but it is negatively correlated with age due ...