Factors Influencing Investors’ Decisions in Stock Market Investment in Bangladesh [A Study on Khulna City]

Fatima Khan; Farhana Afrin; Mirza Arifur Rahman

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Factors Influencing Investors’ Decisions in Stock Market Investment in Bangladesh [A Study on Khulna City]

Fatima Khan, Farhana Afrin, Mirza Arifur Rahman

Published in Journal of Finance and Accounting (Volume 3, Issue 6)

Received: 1 October 2015 Accepted: 19 October 2015 Published: 31 October 2015

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Abstract

This study investigates the factors that have influenced the share investment decisions of a sample of 270 investors in Khulna City. It is motivated by the observed significant investment in shares in DSE and CSE enlisted companies in recent years as well as the need to understand the behavioral aspects of the investors influenced by some socio-economic, cultural and psychological factors. The results obtained show that the examples of people attaining financial security through share investment have the maximum level of influence over the investors. Market factors, hedging factors and economic factors have greater influence on investing decision making. This result also shows that uses of corporate annual report indicating financial ratios also influence investors’ decision making in share market.

Published in	Journal of Finance and Accounting (Volume 3, Issue 6)
DOI	10.11648/j.jfa.20150306.14
Page(s)	198-204
Creative Commons	This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Market Influencing Factors, Hedging in the Share Market, Bangladeshi Investors, Stock Market Investment, Behavioral Finance, Investors’ Psychology

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Fatima Khan; Farhana Afrin; Mirza Arifur Rahman. Factors Influencing Investors’ Decisions in Stock Market Investment in Bangladesh [A Study on Khulna City]. J. Finance Account. 2015, 3(6), 198-204. doi: 10.11648/j.jfa.20150306.14

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Fatima Khan, Farhana Afrin, Mirza Arifur Rahman. Factors Influencing Investors’ Decisions in Stock Market Investment in Bangladesh [A Study on Khulna City]. J Finance Account. 2015;3(6):198-204. doi: 10.11648/j.jfa.20150306.14

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Fatima Khan

Department of Business Administration, Northern University Bangladesh, Khulna, Bangladesh
Farhana Afrin

Department of Business Administration, Northern University Bangladesh, Khulna, Bangladesh
Mirza Arifur Rahman

Department of Business Administration, Northern University Bangladesh, Khulna, Bangladesh

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Fatima Khan; Farhana Afrin; Mirza Arifur Rahman. Factors Influencing Investors’ Decisions in Stock Market Investment in Bangladesh [A Study on Khulna City]. J. Finance Account. 2015, 3(6), 198-204. doi: 10.11648/j.jfa.20150306.14

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Fatima Khan, Farhana Afrin, Mirza Arifur Rahman. Factors Influencing Investors’ Decisions in Stock Market Investment in Bangladesh [A Study on Khulna City]. J Finance Account. 2015;3(6):198-204. doi: 10.11648/j.jfa.20150306.14

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