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Woman's investment pays the best interest: Literature-based dissertation on gender difference in investing in emerging markets
Includes bibliographical references.
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2014
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| author | Naidoo, Simone |
| author2 | West, Darron |
| author_browse | Naidoo, Simone West, Darron |
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| institution | University of Cape Town (South Africa) |
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| spelling | oai:open.uct.ac.za:11427/8570 Woman's investment pays the best interest: Literature-based dissertation on gender difference in investing in emerging markets Naidoo, Simone West, Darron Willows, Gizelle Includes bibliographical references. Gender differences in investing is an expanding research area in Behavioural Finance. Research has shown that males and females behave differently in many of their decision-making processes, but this dissertation will focus mainly on the differences in investing behaviours. Because males are generally overconfident and more likely to take risks, they partake more often in competitive types of activities such as trading. Because men overtrade, they incur friction costs which lowers their return. Thus research has shown that, on a risk-adjusted basis, females are better investors than males. This study, based on the findings of Willows (2012), is a literature-based dissertation that investigates gender differences among mutual fund investors and mutual fund managers, as well as the gender differences in mutual fund investors in both developed markets and emerging markets. This dissertation found no significant difference in fund performance based on the manager's or the investor's gender based on market context. However, research is currently very limited in terms of investor behaviour along gender lines in an emerging market such as South African. This dissertation's aim is to set the theoretical basis for a fuller empirical exploration of gender differences in emerging markets. 2014-10-17T10:13:02Z 2014-10-17T10:13:02Z 2014 Master Thesis Masters MCom http://hdl.handle.net/11427/8570 eng application/pdf Department of Finance and Tax Faculty of Commerce University of Cape Town |
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| title | Woman's investment pays the best interest: Literature-based dissertation on gender difference in investing in emerging markets |
| title_full | Woman's investment pays the best interest: Literature-based dissertation on gender difference in investing in emerging markets |
| title_fullStr | Woman's investment pays the best interest: Literature-based dissertation on gender difference in investing in emerging markets |
| title_full_unstemmed | Woman's investment pays the best interest: Literature-based dissertation on gender difference in investing in emerging markets |
| title_short | Woman's investment pays the best interest: Literature-based dissertation on gender difference in investing in emerging markets |
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