Qualitative Research in Financial Markets: Volume 14 Issue 4

Rules and regulations review on micro-takaful scheme development in Malaysia

Sofi Mohd Fikri, Asmadi Mohamed Naim, Selamah Maamor, Mohamad Yazid Isa, Shahrul Nizam Ahmad, Wahidah Shari, Nurul Aini Muhamed

This study aims to review the current rules and regulations on micro-takaful in Malaysia to determine whether it addresses the basic principles of micro-takaful. Although the…

Valuations, marketing and uncertainty: a field study of financial analysts and salespeople

Emre Tarim

This paper aims to explore how sell-side analysts and salespeople make sense of uncertainty on their market knowledge, valuation and marketing outputs.

Is recapitalisation regulation a disrupter? Survival and sustainability of indigenous Ghanaian banks

Lydia Nyankom Takyi, Vannie Naidoo

This study aims to explore how the implementation of the recapitalisation by the Bank of Ghana disrupted the indigenous banks’ sources of accessing capital to raise the required…

Long-lasting heuristics principles for efficient investment decisions

Gregory Gadzinski, Markus Schuller, Shabnam Mousavi

Behavioral solutions to our cognitive biases have long been studied in the literature. However, there is still ample evidence of behavioral biases in decision-making, with only…

Caught in a trap? Financial Fair Play Regulations and the case of Scottish football

Finlay Maclean, Renzo Cordina, Martin J. Gannon

The purpose of this study is to investigate the Union of European Football Associations’s Financial Fair Play (FFP) Regulations in the context of the European football industry…

A qualitative examination of changing investment preferences, sentiments and behavioural tendencies in COVID-19: a special case of Indian individual investors

Rupali Misra, Jaya Mamta Prosad, Shruti Ashok, Puneeta Goel

This paper aims to identify changes in individual investors’ preferences, prominent sentiments in the market, behavioural tendencies and biases demonstrated as a result of the…