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Does investment risk tolerance predict emotional and behavioural reactions to market turmoil?

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To assess if risk attitudes play a role in individual investors' reactions to adverse events in financial markets, members of a university community (N = 102) were administered a risk tolerance instrument. Additional survey items asked about financial, emotional and behavioural effects of the market downturn that began in Fall 2008. Attitudes towards risk and towards uncertainty, and investor experience, were positively correlated with riskiness of the individuals' self-reported investment portfolio. Causal modelling confirmed that investment risk tolerance predicts actual risk in the investor's portfolio; which predicted losses in portfolio value during the recent market disruptions. Portfolio losses correlated with negative emotional reactions, which together with risk tolerance predicted self-reported changes in investment strategy. In sum, investors' emotional reactions to losses may be mitigated by higher levels of risk tolerance, yet higher levels of risk tolerance are associated with riskier portfolios, and thus to larger losses in a market downturn.

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  • James E. Corter, 2011. "Does investment risk tolerance predict emotional and behavioural reactions to market turmoil?," International Journal of Behavioural Accounting and Finance, Inderscience Enterprises Ltd, vol. 2(3/4), pages 225-237.
    • Handle: RePEc:ids:ijbeaf:v:2:y:2011:i:3/4:p:225-237
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    1. Ritika & Himanshu & Nawal Kishor, 2023. "Modeling of factors affecting investment behavior during the pandemic: a grey-DEMATEL approach," Journal of Financial Services Marketing, Palgrave Macmillan, vol. 28(2), pages 222-235, June.

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