Title: Key drivers investment decision-making process for fund managers of a large bank

Authors: Omar Masood

Addresses: Business School, University of East London, Docklands Campus, University Way, E16 2RD, UK

Abstract: How important are the experience, the education and the incentives to fund managers? Do they rely more on financial information from the markets and financial statements or do they take a more personal subjective approach. Is the number of clients correlated with the satisfaction of incentives provided to fund managers? We develop a new methodology to analyse data from direct interviews with fund managers of a large bank. This is an exploratory analysis of some of the main variables underpinning the investment decision process as observed on the action of the actors, the fund managers, and not on the performance results in money terms.

Keywords: fund managers; investment decisions; decision making; contingency tables; graphical association models; collapsibility; large banks; experience; education; incentives; financial information; subjective decisions.

DOI: 10.1504/IJMEF.2008.020634

International Journal of Monetary Economics and Finance, 2008 Vol.1 No.3, pp.250 - 262

Published online: 06 Oct 2008 *

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