Investors’ Behavior and Portfolio Selection Among Equity Investors in Rwanda
| dc.contributor.author | Niyibizi, Methuselah | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2020-01-09T15:03:33Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2020-01-09T15:03:33Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2012-09 | |
| dc.description | A Thesis Presented to The College of Higher Degrees and Research Kampala International University Kampala, Uganda In Partial Fulfillment of The Requirements for The Degree Master of Business Administration | en_US |
| dc.description.abstract | The study was carried out on Investor’s Behavior and Portfolio Selection among equity Investors in Rwanda. Specifically, the researcher attained the following objectives; to find out the demographic characteristics of investor in Rwanda Capital Market and specifically equity investors, to ascertain the profile of general investors in Rwanda capital market and specifically the equity investors in relation to investment goal, ability to cope with uncertainty and risk tolerance, to ascertain the nature of portfolio maintained by Equity investors in Rwanda, to establish the relationship between the profile and the nature of portfolio maintained by Equity investors in Rwanda. The following hypothesis was tested; there is no significant relationship between investors’ behavior and portfolio selection among equity investors in Rwanda. Qualitative approach was used to describe individual’s traits that could not be easily described numerically and quantitative approach was used because numerical data was applied. The sample of 217 was used and all of them were equity investors. The data was analyzed both using descriptive statistics and inferential statistics. It was concluded that equity investors in Rwanda expect strong performance from their investment, they are on middle ground risk tolerant, and they have balanced expectation of uncertainty. It was also concluded the level of equity maintained by equity investment is moderate. Finally, the researcher rejected the null hypothesis since the F statistics was higher than the significance level of 0.05. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12306/6708 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.publisher | Kampala International University, College of Economics and Management. | en_US |
| dc.subject | Portfolio Selection | en_US |
| dc.subject | Equity Investors | en_US |
| dc.subject | Rwanda | en_US |
| dc.title | Investors’ Behavior and Portfolio Selection Among Equity Investors in Rwanda | en_US |
| dc.type | Other | en_US |