Study on Attitudes of Individual investors

blucey

Dear Investor,

In the wake of the stock market crash on 19 October 1987, Professor Robert Shiller at the Yale University International Centre of Finance began a survey of American investor’s attitudes to the stock market. Unlike other survey approaches, this is derived “bottom up” from psychological and financial research. Over the last 20 years this ongoing study has generated the widely used Yale School of Management Stock Market Confidence Indices, for the USA and Japan.
20 years on, Trinity College Dublin, in collaboration with Yale University, are launching a version of this survey in Ireland and the U.K. The TCD-Yale Stock Market Confidence Survey is the first academically grounded survey of its kind to be carried out in Europe and will provide a unique and valuable insight into investor opinion. The results will provide useful insight into how investors form decisions. The survey will cover individual and institutional investors in both Ireland and the U.K. and draws on the research capacity of the School of Business Studies and the School of Computer Science at Trinity College. It will be conducted on-line and consists of a set of multi-choice questions.
As an investor with your own unique perspective on how the markets are performing we invite you to participate in this non-commercial survey at:

https://www.cs.tcd.ie/Khurshid.Ahmad/SurveySite/

Select the "individual" survey from the lefthand menu.
The survey takes approximately 15 minutes to complete and is fully anonymous. It will be conducted monthly; participants can choose to receive a monthly survey reminder e-mail if they wish to continue to participate or to receive results. Under no circumstances are participants under any obligation to complete the survey each month. Nor will the results or emails be sold or distributed for commercial gain. Nor will any analysis be undertaken on individual units or respondents – all results will be analysed on an aggregate basis.
In return, participants will receive a monthly analysis of the movement of the sentiment indices relative to market movements and sentiment indices in both the U.S and Japan prior to publication of the aggregated results.
The results of this survey will provide financial services professionals, market analysts and academics alike a novel perspective into the changing dynamics of the stock markets. We would greatly appreciate your support and participation in making this endeavour a reality.

If you have any questions on the survey, its construction or its usage, please feel free to contact me on blucey@tcd.ie.


Professor Brian Lucey

A Random Walk

Interesting survey but it seems to ignore index investors using ETFs for long term buy and hold strategies (increasingly popular).

There is a question about funds which rightly asks the question as to whether an investor can reasonably expect to pick outperforming managers in advance, but this doesn't apply to an index fund investor who will probably select broad based indices to invest in.