Investors Attitude towards Investment Avenues - A Study in Namakkal District

Investors have a lot of investment avenues to park their savings. The risk and returns available from each of these investment avenues differ from one avenue to another. The investors expect more returns with relatively lesser risks. In this regard, the financial advisors and consultants offer various suggestions to the investors. The available literature relating to the investors' attitude towards investment avenues is very little and failed to provide a lot of information. An attempt has been made in this study to find out the main objective of the investors in Namakkal District towards making investments and to assess the investors' attitude towards the investment avenues. The demographic variables and objectives of the investors have been obtained from the respondents and the relationship between these variables and objectives has been computed. The attitude of the respondents towards the select investment avenues has been ranked. The study also offers suggestions for the marketers of financial services.