- Investor profile
An investor profile or style defines an individual's preferences in
investment decisions, for example:
* Short term trading (active management ) or long term holding (buy and hold )
*Risk averse or risk tolerant / seeker
* All classes of assets or just one (stock s for example)
*Value stock ,growth stock s, quality stocks, defensive or cyclical stocks...
* Big cap or small cap stocks,
* Use or not of derivatives
* Home turf or international diversification
* Hands on, or viainvestment fund s
* and so on.What determine an investor profile
The style / profile is determined by
* Objective personal or social traits such as age, gender, income, wealth, family, tax situation...
* Subjective attitudes, linked to the temper (emotions) and the beliefs (cognition) of the investor.
* Generally, the investor's financial return / risk objectives, assuming they are precisely set and fully rational.ee also
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Value investing
*Index investing
*Growth investing
*Quality investing
*Socially responsible investing
*Ethical investing
*Appreciation
*Capital accumulation
*Financial economics
*Investor relations
*Return on investment
* Saving
*Speculation
*Stock investor
*Stock profile
*Styles of investment strategy
*Global assets under management External links
* [http://perso.orange.fr/pgreenfinch/eprofile.htm investor types]
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