Review of Literature on Investment Behavior of Rural Investors

The diversification of the financial services sector has provided the individual investor with a wide range of opportunities to invest. Savings are the mantras that any investment advisor will recite. Savings are the difference between the amount investor earns and the amount investor spends. One reason could be that there are certain material goals that they want to save for. Indian investors behavior has been changing drastically in the post-economic reforms era in investment activity, preferences in selecting various financial instruments, evaluating and in analyzing the investment avenues. In this paper the diverse literature available worldwide on individual investor behavior has been explored. Its main objective is to understand individual investor behavior. In order to review the literature, research papers have been collected from various referred journals related to individual investors behavior.