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Individual investors’ information use, subjective expectations, and portfolio risk and return

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  • Oscar Stålnacke

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What information do individual investors use when making their financial decisions and how is it related to their stock market expectations, their confidence in these expectations, and the risk and return of their stock portfolios? I study these questions by combining survey data on the information usage among individual investors in Sweden with detailed registry data on their stock portfolios. I find that investors use filtered financial information (e.g. information packaged by a professional intermediary) more frequently than they use unfiltered financial information (e.g. information from annual reports and financial statements). Investors who frequently use filtered financial information are, however, more confident in their stock market expectations and take larger risks in their stock portfolios. Investors that instead use unfiltered financial information take lower portfolio risks and obtain higher portfolio returns. The findings in this paper thus suggest that investors can improve their financial decisions by using more unfiltered financial information rather than filtered financial information when they make their financial decisions.

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  • Oscar Stålnacke, 2019. "Individual investors’ information use, subjective expectations, and portfolio risk and return," The European Journal of Finance, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 25(15), pages 1351-1376, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:eurjfi:v:25:y:2019:i:15:p:1351-1376
    DOI: 10.1080/1351847X.2019.1592769
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