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Abstract : UNIRAZAK Library |
Economic and financial theories presume that individuals make decision based on
bounded rationality, by taking into all the available information. Economist believe in
classic models of rational market behaviour in decision making-process and so do not
consider irrational behaviour. Uncertainty, makes individual to arrive at irrational
decision. The ability to make decisions is mostly responsible for investing profits and
losses. At times, even the most prominent and well-verse investors collapse in
investment. As a result, this demonstrates that classic theories of rational market
behaviour are missing something.
The impact of the Big Five Behavioural Finance features is investigated in this article
(Openness, Conscientiousness, Extraversion, Agreeableness and Neuroticism-
OCEAN) on individual investors decision making process on portfolio allocation;
Stock, Mutual Funds, Insurance, and Cash Equivalent, under the uncertainty due to
COVID-19 pandemic and the goal is to prove that such fundamental concerns exist.
One of the most important predictors of the market movement has been the investors
sentiment. The influences of OCEAN, whether it exhibit positive or negative impact
on the portfolio allocation decision-making during COVID-19 pandemic was studied.
The result shows that Openness and Agreeableness has a statistically significant
positive relationship with investors’ decision on portfolio allocation and COVID-19
does have impact on the cause-and effect relationship between OCEAN and decision-
making process.
Primary data was collected by distributing a structured questionnaire among 300
individual investors. The fundamental goal of the study would be to see if behavioural
finance influences investors’ decisions in times of trouble, such as the COVID-19
epidemic, using behavioural finance theory as a guide. This study will be closer to the
reality and gives a more significant insight to the decision-making on portfolio
allocation and psychology traits used to explain why the decision was made.
Keywords: Personality traits, individual investors, financial traits, epidemic,
and pandemic. |
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