Pengaruh Faktor Demografi dan Literasi keuangan dengan Behavior Finance dalam Pengambilan Keputusan Investasi

The investment decision-making process is influenced by various factors, including financial literacy and demographic factors. This research examines the impact of demographic factors and financial literacy with behavioral finance as a mediation on investment decision making. This research using structural equation model (SEM) analysis. The result shows that demographic factors through gender, age, education, income, occupation and experience have an influence and cause a specific behavior in investment decision making. Then the financial literacy factor has an influence in reducing negative behavior. Likewise, demographic factors and financial literacy with behavioral finance as a mediation on investment decisions have a positive influence. The existence of behavior that is manages with planning, financial literacy support, and demographic factors owned by individual investors will create an opportunity for market momentum. Which help maximize profit, better investment and portfolio performance, avoid risks, better investment decision, and forming trading strategies.

PERBANDINGAN KINERJA PORTOFOLIO SAHAM DI JAKARTA ISLAMIC INDEX DAN IDX30 PERIODE 2016–2018

ABSTRAKPenelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui perbedaan antara kinerja portofolio saham Jakarta Islamic Index (JII) dan IDX30 periode 2016–2018. Jenis penelitian ini adalah penelitian verifikatif dengan metode explanatory survey dan menggunakan teknik statistik komparatif. Penelitian ini menggunakan metode analisis Markowitz dengan pendekatan minimum variance. Sampel yang digunakan adalah 189 saham Jakarta Islamic Index (JII) dan 200 saham IDX30. Hasil pengujian kinerja portofolio dengan menggunakan uji beda independent sample t-test, tidak terdapat perbedaan antara kinerja portofolio Jakarta Islamic Index (JII) dengan kinerja portofolio IDX30. Kemudian, dari hasil perhitungan Sharpe Ratio pada Jakarta Islamic Index (JII) dan IDX30 pada setiap periodenya bernilai positif. Hal ini menunjukkan bahwa portofolio dari kedua indeks selalu memperlihatkan kinerja yang bernilai positif atau baik. Implikasinya adalah tidak ada return tambahan yang dapat diperoleh investor dengan cara membedakan saham yang memiliki kiteria syariah dengan yang bukan syariah. ABSTRACTThis study aims to determine the difference between the performance of the Jakarta Islamic Index (JII) and IDX30 stock portfolios for the 2016–2018 period. This type of research is a verification research with an explanatory survey method and using comparative statistical techniques. This research uses Markowitz analysis method with Minimum Variance approach. The sample used is 189 shares of Jakarta Islamic Index (JII) and 200 shares of IDX30. The results of portfolio performance testing using the independent sample t-test difference test, there is no difference between the performance of the Jakarta Islamic Index (JII) portfolio and the performance of the IDX30 portfolio. Then, from the results of the calculation of the Sharpe Ratio on the Jakarta Islamic Index (JII) and IDX30 in each period it is positive, this shows that the portfolios of the two indexes always show positive or good performance. The implication is that there is no additional return that can be obtained by investors by distinguishing stocks that have sharia criteria from those that are not sharia.

Doing well by doing good with the performance of United Nations Global Compact Climate Change Champions

Are Climate Change Champions favorable to investors? This is the first study of portfolio performance of a fourth generation SRI screening strategy based on United Nations Global Compact firms who are Climate Change Champions. The operational changes made by UNGC firms are real and disproves the notion that UNGC firms are merely green-washing. We find that after firms join UNGC, there is a positive effect on long term portfolio performance. UNGC firms have lower volatility and so less risk than their competitors. We find an apparent mispricing of lower risk in market returns as standard asset pricing models may not be pricing investors’ aversion to climate change risk and preference for firms actively combating climate change. This lends support to Fama and Frenchs’ theory that says that these “tastes” are valid factors to provide a more complete asset pricing model. Our study encourages investment in UNGC-CCC firms as we find there is no underperformance penalty against a conventional portfolio because the lower return reflects lower risk. Thus, our evidence suggests that “doing good for society is also good for business.”

When Uncertainty and Volatility Are Disconnected: Implications for Asset Pricing and Portfolio Performance

We analyze an environment where the uncertainty in the equity market return and its volatility are both stochastic and may be potentially disconnected. We solve a representative investor's optimal asset allocation and derive the resulting conditional equity premium and risk-free rate in equilibrium. Our empirical analysis shows that the equity premium appears to be earned for facing uncertainty, especially high uncertainty that is disconnected from lower volatility, rather than for facing volatility as traditionally assumed. Incorporating the possibility of a disconnect between volatility and uncertainty significantly improves portfolio performance, over and above the performance obtained by conditioning on volatility only.

ESG Disclosure and Portfolio Performance

This paper illustrates the impact of Environmental Social and Governance (ESG) disclosure on European corporate equity performance. In this study, we use an extensive data set of European ESG ratings provided by Bloomberg to demonstrate that ESG disclosure is associated with improved return growth, with the Governance pillar exhibiting the strongest effect on corporate performance. The impact of ESG disclosure on volatility is changing over time, suggesting that the existence of opaque ratings limits the transmission of information disclosure into corporate performance.

Copula methods for evaluating relative tail forecasting performance

PurposeThe authors apply their method to analyze which portfolios are capable of providing superior performance to those based on the Sharpe ratio (SR).Design/methodology/approachIn this paper the authors illustrate the use of conditional copulas for identifying differences in alternative portfolio performance strategies. The authors analyze which portfolios are capable of providing superior performance to those based on the SR.FindingsThe results show that under the Gaussian copula, both expected tail ratio (ETR) and skewness-kurtosis ratio portfolios exhibit remarkably low correlations respecting the SR portfolio. This means that these two portfolios are different respecting the SR one. The authors also find that copulas which focus on either the upper tail (Gumbel) or the lower tail (Clayton) render significant differences. In short, the copula analysis is useful to understand what kind of equity-screening strategy based on its corresponding performance measure (PM) performs better in relation to the SR portfolio.Practical implicationsCopula methods for evaluating relative tail forecasting performance provide an alternative tool when forecast differences are very small or found non statistically significant through standard tests.Originality/valueOur copula methods to evaluate models' performance differences are significant because when models' performance is rather similar, conclusions on statistical differences, can be defective as they may hinge on the subsample type or size used, leading to inefficient investment decisions. Our method based in copula is novel in this research topic.

Mutual funds behavior and risk-adjusted performance in Nigeria

The paper investigates the behavior of mutual funds and their risk-adjusted performance in the financial markets of Nigeria between April 2016 and May 31, 2019, using descriptive statistics, as well as CAPM, Jensen’s alpha, and other risk-adjusted portfolio performance measures such as Sharpe and Treynor ratios, as well as Fama decomposition of return. The descriptive tests revealed that 80.77% of the funds were superior to market returns, while 13.46% were riskier. The market and the fund returns behaved abnormally with asymptotic and leptokurtic characteristics as their skewness and kurtosis varied from the normal requirements. Diagnostically, the normality test by Jacque-Berra showed that the return was not normally distributed at a 1% significance level. The market was more aggressive relative to the funds. The average risk-free rate was 6.75% above the market’s return. The risk-adjusted portfolio returns measured by Sharpe and Treynor ratios showed that 67.31% of the funds underperformed the market compared to 40.38% that outperformed the market using Jensen’s alpha. Fama decomposition of return revealed that the fund managers are risk-averse with 48% superior selection ability and rationally invested over 85% of investors’ funds in schemes with fixed income securities at a given risk-free return that cushioned the negative effects of the systematic and idiosyncratic risks and consequently threw the total returns into positive territories. Overall, the fund managers possessed 52% of inferior selection abilities that only earned 33% of superior risk-adjusted returns and hence, failed to achieve the desired diversification in the relevant period.