Financial advisors, financial ecologies and the variegated financialisation of everyday investors

Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 27-40

  Lai, Karen P Y ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Ecologies; Ethnography; Financial advisors; Financialisation; Interviews; Singapore

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; ETHNOGRAPHY; FINANCIAL MARKET; FINANCIAL SYSTEM; GLOBAL ECONOMY; INVESTMENT;

SINGAPORE [SOUTHEAST ASIA];

EID: 84958764388     PISSN: 00202754     EISSN: 14755661     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/tran.12101     Document Type: Article

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