{"title":"Two-Factor Risk Preference for Investment Market and Credit Card Risk","authors":"P. Payne, Sarah D. Asebedo","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.3257496","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3257496","url":null,"abstract":"This study proposes a new “two-factor” risk preference metric and assesses its effectiveness in predicting financial satisfaction under two risk domains: investment market risk and credit card risk. The factors in our two-factor assessment are risk tolerance and financial self-efficacy (FSE), both of which have other theoretical and empirical support as measures of risk attitudes. We explore a range of specifications for the two-factor risk preference (TRP) metric and find it to be effective in predicting financial satisfaction under uncertainty. Within the TRP framework, FSE emerged as a robust predictor of the financial satisfaction of credit card users regardless of respondents’ risk tolerance level; similar results were found for investment market equity owners. Overall, this study presents evidence that suggests risk tolerance and FSE capture different aspects of risk attitudes and are more effective at predicting risk preferences together than either one alone. Results suggest that financial planners can more accurately predict client responses to risk by assessing client FSE and risk tolerance levels. Financial planners can then improve client service by using the assessment results as a basis for investment portfolio allocation and credit market participation recommendations.","PeriodicalId":248922,"journal":{"name":"2019 Academic Research Colloquium for Financial Planning & Related Disciplines (Archive)","volume":"37 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-09-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132276218","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
A. Rabbani, Zheying Yao, Christina Wang, John E. Grable
{"title":"Association between Financial Risk Tolerance and Locus of Control, Sensation Seeking for Pre-Retiree Baby Boomers","authors":"A. Rabbani, Zheying Yao, Christina Wang, John E. Grable","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.3256035","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3256035","url":null,"abstract":"Financial risk tolerance is an important concept that helps financial planners recommend financial products to their clients. As the baby boomer generation approaches retirement, research to determine how these individuals perceive financial risk tolerance has grown exponentially. The present study examines the relationship between financial risk tolerance, locus of control, and sensation seeking of the baby boomers.","PeriodicalId":248922,"journal":{"name":"2019 Academic Research Colloquium for Financial Planning & Related Disciplines (Archive)","volume":"67 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-09-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126269533","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}