The Relationship of the Investment Intention and the Propensity to Trust a Portfolio Manager: An Evidence from the Business Departments’ Students in North Cyprus

For every business student, in finance courses you discover many opportunities in the investment world. The idea to invest and to grow securities will start to take place ounce the stock market and its mechanism how it works fascinates you. This thesis studies the role of financial literacy, investment experience, risk tolerance and the propensity to trust a portfolio manager as the determinants of investment intention using a sample from the business department students in Northern Cyprus. The methods used to analyse this study are: Regression analysis, t-test and ANOVA. One hundred eighty-one people responded to the survey's questions from more than 200 links sent for the survey which investigated purpose and the willingness to trust a portfolio manager. The findings of the thesis demonstrates that financial literacy, investment experience, risk tolerance and the propensity to trust a portfolio manager are all significant and have a beneficial outcome on investment intention. The estimates demonstrates that female and male participants differ in the way that they form their investment decisions and also that the student’s opinions about Investment Intention change related to their age. To end with, the results can be illustrative for the policy makers.