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Overconfidence, Risk Tolerance and Investment Strategy: A Study of Capital Market Investors in India
Get PDFTraditional finance theories postulate that capital markets areefficient and that investors are rational. Markowitz, Fama andSamuelson pioneered thinking in traditional finance in the fiftiesand sixties. Later on, objections were raised on the assumptionof rationality of investors. One actual behavioural trait exhibitedby investors, which is far from being rational, is overconfidence.The present paper investigates the existence of overconfidenceamong investors, their risk tolerance levels and their impact oninvestment strategies adopted by them. The study showedsignificant levels of overconfidence that can impact investors’strategy. Investors do fall into very distinctive categories of risktolerance levels. They can be risk taking and risk averse, butmajority are risk neutral. Investors can have distinctive levels ofrisk attitude/tolerance and overconfidence, but it is found thattheir risk attitude does not impact or determine theiroverconfidence
Modelling Non - Normality and Consistency of Returns Distribution of Major Industries in BSE
Get PDFIn modern portfolio management and security analysis it is assumedthat return of an industry follows normal distribution but practicallyit is not so. ragmatically, this research made an attempt to studythe normality as well as non-normality of returns in industries listedin BSE. More over this study tries to establish a consistency indexfor returns based on risk return framework by using the dataenvelopment analysis. The results of the study gives an insightthat the each industry follows separate statistical distribution whichexplains that the nature of returns differs from one another andconsistency index gives an insight to the investors that there is anopportunity to achieve good returns due to the consistency in thereturns of Indian industries listed in BSE
Patient Satisfaction Survey:A Servqual Approach
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Financial reporting under Corporate Governance
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The Attitudes of Social Work Trainees to Victim Blaming with Special Reference to Rape Cases
Get PDFSimply because she is a female the average Indian woman is likely to bevariously a victim of feticide, infanticide, malnourishment, dowry, childmarriage, maternal mortality, domestic servitude, prostitution, rape, honorkillings and/or domestic violence. The stereo types of perception for therape victims which are highly prevalent in a society like India prevent therehabilitation of the victim back into society. Social workers are a part ofthe multi-disciplinary team which works in a scenario both to preventinstances of rape and at the same time is responsible for the effectiverehabilitation of the victims back into society. However, the prejudicedmindset of the social worker will affect the rehab services which are beingprovided to the victims and also to the perpetrators. It hence becomesmandatory to analyse social life to understand the prevalence of rape mythacceptance and victim blaming attitudes which are prevalent among socialworkers. This study compares the prevalence of rape myth acceptance andvictim-blaming attitudes among male and female social work trainees. Itwas revealed that the female respondents have a slightly more negativeattitude towards the victims as compared to the male respondents. Thefact however remains that both male and female respondents were victimblaming and had rape myth acceptance attitudes. This in turn points to theprevalence of poor quality professional social services which adversely affectthe rehabilitation of the rape victim
Book Review : Development, Displacement and Marginalisation
No full textDevelopment, Displacement and Marginalisation. Paul, Norvy (Ed.), 2014, Ernakulam, VincentianService Society Publications, ISBN 978-93-5126-733-1, hard cover, 289 pages
Shift in Cultivation vs Sustainable Agriculture: Evidence from Kerala
Get PDFThe statistical profile of the Kerala agriculture since 1960 reveals a shift incultivation in Kerala. This creates imbalances in the cropping system, whichhave serious economic and environmental consequences for the farm sectorand the sustainability of the agrarian economy. A shift in cultivation andthe subsequent application of chemical fertilisers and pesticides result inthe depletion of inherent nutrients of the soil and create chemical pollution.There is wide concern on the quantity and quality of surface andgroundwater. Sustainability has three important indicators: continuedprofitability, soil stability overtime and absence of adverse impact on theenvironment. In this context, the shift in cultivation and the sustainableagriculture are analysed in terms of soil fertility status, groundwater level,chemical pollution and total factor productivity growth, taking evidencesfrom Kerala. The analysis shows that there are chemical pollution anddecrease in soil fertility status, groundwater level and total factor productivitygrowth in the crop sector of Kerala
