sh.sePublications
Change search
CiteExportLink to record
Permanent link

Direct link
Cite
Citation style
  • apa
  • ieee
  • modern-language-association-8th-edition
  • vancouver
  • harvard-anglia-ruskin-university
  • apa-old-doi-prefix.csl
  • sodertorns-hogskola-harvard.csl
  • sodertorns-hogskola-oxford.csl
  • Other style
More styles
Language
  • de-DE
  • en-GB
  • en-US
  • fi-FI
  • nn-NO
  • nn-NB
  • sv-SE
  • Other locale
More languages
Output format
  • html
  • text
  • asciidoc
  • rtf
Individers riskbenägenhet: Riskbenägenhet mellan män och kvinnor vid en finansiell investering
Södertörn University, School of Social Sciences.
Södertörn University, School of Social Sciences.
2019 (Swedish)Independent thesis Basic level (degree of Bachelor), 10 credits / 15 HE creditsStudent thesis
Abstract [en]

In a financial investment, the investor is expected to have a clear perception of the possible outcomes for the invested asset and the probability that underlies each of these assets. An investor takes both high and low risks depending on the asset, at the same time they have the opportunity to choose between different risk levels of the selected asset. Risk is defined as a threat to a desirable result that is valued positively. Risk is a central concept in the financial sector. However, it is difficult to establish a scale of risk. This is because individuals perceive risk in different ways. Which causes differences between individuals' risk propensity.

There are older researches that have been conducted in other countries, where the differences between individuals' risk propensity are analyzed. Several of these research found that there are differences between men and women's risk propensity. The conditions that currently exist for both sexes have not always existed before which is of interest in this study. Gender equality has become an increasingly important aspect of Swedish society. This makes it interesting to study the gender's financial risk propensity.

This study intends to investigate whether there is a difference in the gender's risk propensity for a financial investment in Sweden. But also to investigate whether variables such as age, income, financial knowledge and related persons have an impact on the individual's financial risk propensity. A Chit-two test has been conducted to see if there is a relationship between the variables and risk propensity. A quantitative method by means of a survey was applied to obtain the main data for the study, which was distributed on various stock exchange forums and social media. A total of 632 respondents participated in the survey, where they had to answer carefully formulated questions concerning the topic.

The result of this study is that there is a difference in risk propensity between men and women for a financial investment. It turned out that the selected variables also had an impact on risk propensity. Gender is also a dependent factor for the variables.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
2019. , p. 52
Keywords [en]
risk propensity, financial investment, men, women, age, income, financial knowledge and related persons
National Category
Business Administration
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-40219OAI: oai:DiVA.org:sh-40219DiVA, id: diva2:1393313
Subject / course
Business Studies
Uppsok
Social and Behavioural Science, Law
Supervisors
Available from: 2020-02-17 Created: 2020-02-14 Last updated: 2020-02-17Bibliographically approved

Open Access in DiVA

fulltext(1132 kB)591 downloads
File information
File name FULLTEXT01.pdfFile size 1132 kBChecksum SHA-512
e06c8b7b560f6cafb190200bd1dcf222cba1cab8939f4e87931f0a63c645f50fd1ab42ac2ef71463c269686bf56a34ee6210f918a1020821a0583fbe44494d01
Type fulltextMimetype application/pdf

By organisation
School of Social Sciences
Business Administration

Search outside of DiVA

GoogleGoogle Scholar
Total: 591 downloads
The number of downloads is the sum of all downloads of full texts. It may include eg previous versions that are now no longer available

urn-nbn

Altmetric score

urn-nbn
Total: 527 hits
CiteExportLink to record
Permanent link

Direct link
Cite
Citation style
  • apa
  • ieee
  • modern-language-association-8th-edition
  • vancouver
  • harvard-anglia-ruskin-university
  • apa-old-doi-prefix.csl
  • sodertorns-hogskola-harvard.csl
  • sodertorns-hogskola-oxford.csl
  • Other style
More styles
Language
  • de-DE
  • en-GB
  • en-US
  • fi-FI
  • nn-NO
  • nn-NB
  • sv-SE
  • Other locale
More languages
Output format
  • html
  • text
  • asciidoc
  • rtf