The influence of the level of education on investors risk tolerance level

Zandri Koekemoer ()
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Zandri Koekemoer: North West University

No 9511449, Proceedings of Economics and Finance Conferences from International Institute of Social and Economic Sciences

Abstract: Increased attention is being given to the influencethat demographic factors have on financial risk tolerance. Financial risk tolerance is the overall amount of uncertainty an investor is willing to take with regard to his/herinvestment decisions. The aim of this article was to investigate whether an investor?s level of education plays a role in the level of financial risk that they are willing to tolerate.Data for this article was purposefully collected using a quantitative questionnaire thatwas electronically distributed to 600 investors within the South African market. Previous research suggests thata positive relationship exists between the level of education and risk tolerance. In other words, an investor with a higher level of education will be willing to tolerate more financial risk due to being able to take more calculated financial risks. The results of this study indicated similar findings to previous research wherean individual with a postgraduate degree was more likely to be high risk tolerant compared to an individual with a lower level of education. Individuals who had some level of schooling were more likely to be risk adverse.

Keywords: Risk tolerance; education level; financial decisions; demographics (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: A23 G11 I22 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 13 pages
Date: 2019-10
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Published in Proceedings of the Proceedings of the 12th Economics & Finance Conference, Dubrovnik, Oct 2019, pages 147-159

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