Minding Your Business Survey

Help Wealth Healthy Women [TM] research the frequently-asked 
question: Do women and men REALLY differ in how they think 
about and handle money?
Please complete the following 7-item survey, and ask a member
of the opposite sex to answer it too! See directions for 
submitting your responses at the end of the survey.

Instructions: Choose the answer that best describes you NOW.
Place an X on the line in front of your response. If you are
not currently investing, check the response that would best
describe you if you were currently investing. Choose only
one answer per item.


Your Gender: _____Female   _____Male

Age: _____20-29   _____30-39  _____0-49  _____50-59

     _____ 60-69  _____70 and over
	
	  
I have been handling my own finances for _____0 years

     _____1-5 years  _____6-10 years  _____11-15 years
	
     _____16-20 years  _____other (please specify)

My highest level of education is ______  high school  ______ college 
		
		______ graduate school   _____ other (specify:            )


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1. My ability to predict shifts in the markets:

_____ I am very confident in my ability.

_____ I'm probably no better and no worse than anyone else
	about predicting market shifts. 

_____ I have no confidence in my ability to predict shifts.



2. Significance of my gut reactions

_____ IF I have a good "feel" about an investment, it's likely
	to be successful for me.

_____ I don't give much weight positively or negatively to how
	I feel about any particular investment. I invest based
	upon the information I gather.

_____ Even if I have a good feeling about an investment, I 
	focus more on the risks, such as a drop in returns
	or even losing principal.


3. Perceptions of my investment decisions

_____ I tend to remember my financial successes more than poor
	returns or decisions.

_____ I equally remember (or forget) successful and poor returns
	or decisions.

_____ I tend to remember my financial mistakes more than my
	successes.



4. Influences on my investing (stocks, mutual funds, bonds, CDs,
	or other options will be referred to generally as 
	"financial products")

_____ I prefer to invest in financial products that family or 
	friends invest in, or stocks\funds that are popular.

_____ Sometimes I invest in what others are currently buying and
	sometimes I buy a product that looks promising to me.

_____ I prefer investing in what I view as a good financial product
	regardless of what others are buying. 


5. My feelings about financial losses

_____ I dread a negative outcome when I invest and feel a lot of 
	regret when I've picked a losing financial product.

_____ While I don't like poor outcomes, I feel less regret when
	someone else has invested the money for me than if I'd 
	invested it myself.

_____ While I don't like poor outcomes, I feel little regret over
	financial decisions whether I chose the investment or 
	someone did it for me. 


6. My perceptions of market trends to come

_____ Based on what happened this year to technology stocks and 
	dot-com companies, I'd predict that a similar rise and 
	fall will happen in new "hot" sectors in the future.

_____ I'm not sure what to think about future financial events
	based on what has recently occurred.

_____ I don't believe we can predict anything about future 
	financial events from past or current situations.



7. Where I put my investment focus

_____ I have a long-term investment strategy and refrain from 
	switching in and out of investments when they aren't 
	meeting my expectations.

_____ I worry when my investments aren't earning what I expect,
	and occasionally will switch in and out of investments.

_____ I monitor my investments every day or so and actively
	switch in and out of investments that aren't 
	performing up to my expectations.