Kedrosky today on risk-aversion between Catholics and Protestants:
We examine the relations between mutual fund risk-taking behaviors and local religious beliefs. We find that funds located in regions with lower Protestant population or higher Catholic population tend to have higher volatilities of fund returns, consistent with Protestants (Catholics) being more (less) risk-averse compared to general population.
More here.
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brilliant!
why did we never think of data-mining our client profiles by religious affiliations before? at the risk of sounding a bit bigoted, its a lot easier to look for trends when certain groups are more or less *ahem* … “homogeneous in mindset”… there, that’s the most politically correct term I’d use for it…