At first sight, the idea of investing internationally seems exciting and full of promise because of the many benefits of international portfolio investment. By investing in foreign securities, investors can participate in the growth of other countries, hedge their consumption basket against exchange rate risk, realize diversification effects and take advantage of market segmentation on a global...

Keywords: Life history strategy Mate value Mate Value Inventory r/K selection a b s t r a c t Life history theory explains how individuals decide to invest their limited resources, which involves several trade-offs. Particularly relevant to the current work, individuals can choose to invest in current or delayed reproduction (a slow life history strategy), which implicates a trade-off between t...

The rapid growth of online investing and virtual investing-related communities (VICs) has a wide-raging impact on research, practice and policy. Given the enormous volume of postings on VICs, automated classification of messages to extract relevance is critical. Classification is complicated by three factors: (a) the amount of irrelevant messages or "noise" messages (e.g., spam, insults), (b) t...