A study on Risk bearing capacity and Investment Attitude of Experienced and Common Investors

Abstract

This paper aims at studying the impact of investment experience on risk bearing capacity and investment attitude of individual investors. It also explores the relationship between both the dependent variables. In this study data has been collected from 271 investors having various years of investment experience. The result of the study shows that risk bearing capacity increases with investment experience. It also concludes that investment attitude of investors move to optimism from pessimism with increase in investment experience. The findings also show a significant association between risk bearing capacity and investment attitude.