Understanding investment expertise and factors that influence the information processing and performance of investment experts

Abstract

To investigate the nature of investment expertise and factors affecting the information processing and performance of investment experts, this paper hypothesizes normative characteristics of investment expertise and compares such characteristics with actual characteristics documented in prior literature on the investment expert. Based on collective evidence from these sources, a model of investment expertise is proposed.

Results support the existence of investment expertise in (1) the nature of knowledge, (2) problem solving and information search, and (3) performance. A variety of factors that could influence the information processing and performance of the investment expert, including personal, cognitive, and contextual elements, are also discussed in the paper and included in the proposed model of investment expertise.

Citation

Tam, K., Bierstaker, J.L. and Seol, I. (2006), "Understanding investment expertise and factors that influence the information processing and performance of investment experts", Arnold, V., Clinton, B.D., Luckett, P., Roberts, R., Wolfe, C. and Wright, S. (Ed.) Advances in Accounting Behavioral Research (Advances in Accounting Behavioural Research, Vol. 9), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 113-156. https://doi.org/10.1016/S1475-1488(06)09005-3