A study on investors behaviour of senior college teachers in western Maharashtra

A study was undertaken to know the investment practices of senior college teachers in Western Maharashtra. The findings reveal that, the investors were having high level of knowledge about various investment avenues. Also, most of the investors have taken the assistance of investment planners during the decision making of investment. They have preferred to invest in Real Estate, it followed by Stocks in Technology and Auto respectively. In short, investors have mostly preferred low risk avenues comparatively to the others. They wanted to invest their funds in safer avenues and want to live comfortable. Researcher has found that, there was a relationship between annual income and terms of investments. But, an age of investors and the amount of investment is not interrelated. Although, a majority of the investors were having a high level of knowledge. It is suggested that, the investors should have thorough knowledge before making investment in different avenues.