Financial Literacy and Stock Market Participation

Financial Literacy and Stock Market Participation Kinar Timilsina THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN FINANCIAL LITERACY AND STOCK MARKET PARTICIPATION BY RETAIL INVESTORS IN NEPAL 1.1 Background 1.1.1 Financial Literacy Financial literacy is defined as education and understanding of various financial areas such as personal finance, corporate finance, financial services, public finance etc. It focuses on the ability to manage personal finance matters in an efficient and effective manner, and it includes the knowledge of making appropriate decisions about personal finance such as investing, insurance, real estate, paying for college, budgeting, retirement and tax planning. (Investopedia). Financial literacy alerts individual to save money for their retirement period. Investments in financial asset helps them to increase their future wealth. Lusardi Mitchell (2008) write more financially literate people are more likely to plan for retirement and as a result they accumulate more wealth thus they participate in stock market . Guiso Jappelli (2008), Kimball Shumway (2007), Lusardi Mitchell (2006, 2007), and Lusardi Tufano (2009) (in Calcagno Monticone, 2011) confirm that knowledge about basic financ ial principles in consumer and products is scarce and may not be sufficient to guarantee that individuals make sound financial decisions. Less knowledge of financial literacy means little knowledge of financial matters and terms related to them such as interest rates and risk minimizing techniques. Retail Investors who has little or no knowledge of finance, that is a person who is not financially sophisticated, is more likely to fall prey to high cost borrowing and pay a great amount of money to attainment different financial services (Lusardi and Mitchell, 2011) . The financially literate persons have more financial wealth (Lusardi, 2004). The leading to the financial crisis of 2007 was financial illiteracy . It is important for decision makers to integrate financial knowledge and skills with real life processes leading to better financial interests (Atkinson and Messy). 1.1.2 Stock Market Participation Share trading in Nepal dates back to 1937 when the flotation of shares by Biratnagar Jute Mills Ltd. and Nepal Bank Ltd commenced the share trading which were involved in opening plantations in Nepal . The establishment of a formal stock exchange took place in 13 January 1994 with the incorporation of the Nepal Stock Exchange (NEPSE), which took over the Securities Exchange Center Ltd. established in 1976. It currently has a membership of 2 market makers 50 stock brokers. As per the Securities Act 2007, rules and by-laws they operate on the trading floor. The Nepal Stock Exchange (Nepal) is the main stock exchange in Nepal. It is one of the modern stock exchanges in South Asia, providing a fully automated trading platform. NEPSE operates the market on the NEPSE Automated Trading System (NATS. It adopts the principle of an order driven market. NATS is used to purchase sell physical as well as dematerialized securities. The basic objective of NEPSE is to create without cost marketability and liquidity to the government and corporate securities which is done by facilitating transactions via market intermediaries such as brokers and market makers, etc. in its trading floor. The headquarters of the NEPSE have been situated at Singha Durbar Plaza, Kathmandu Nepal Nepal Stock Exchange is the only stock exchange licensed by the Securities Board of Nepal (SEBON). It was nearly 23 years ago that, formalized share trading commenced in Nepal under the Government of Nepal and trading was conducted under the rules and by laws formulated by the Association. It was only as recent as in 1994, that share trading in Nepal took a new turn with the establishment of a public trading floor and the introduction of the open outcry system of trading until 2007. In 2007, NEPSE moved to screen-based trading from open outcry by setting up Wide Area Network. It enabled stock brokers to be connected with NEPSEs server from their offices. The partial automation of stock trading has helped boost transaction volume. NEPSE has adopted a T+3 system. It implies that after 3 days of Trading, settlement of transactions should be done. The clearing and settlement procedures of the Nepal Stock Exchange were automated in 2011 with the establishment of the CDS and Clearing Limited. It is a company established under the company act promoted by NEPSE. The depository is known as the Central Depository System (CDS). CDS performs the role of central depository for Equity, Bonds etc. to handle these securities in dematerialized form. In 1994, an Over the Counter market for trading of unlisted shares was introduced for the first time in Nepal, Securities Exchange Center (SEC) managed the operation of secondary market over-the-counter facility. The delisted firms and state-owned corporations registers with the over the counter market (OTC) to allow trade of their shares. Shares without others finding out the price at which the transaction was done, can be bought and sold at the OTC market. Thus, the OTC market is less transparent than stock exchanges, and are also subject to fewer regulations in practice. The OTC market is rarely used to trades shares in Nepal. In 2012, shares of Nepal Bank Limited were traded in the OTC market for the first time where 71,928 Nepal Bank shares were transferred to its 2,664 employees that belonged to government. SEBON as the market regulator has been concentrating its efforts on intensifying statutory and legal frameworks which are the bases for the healthy development of Nepalese stock market. The main objective of SEBON is to flourish and safeguard the interest of investors by regulating the securities market, to supervise the entire stock market, sale and distribution of securities and purchase, sale or exchange of securities. SEBON provides licenses to stock exchange and securities business person. It also monitors the activities carried by stock exchange to know if they are in accordance with the laws, bye laws or not. As per the securities regulations the depository functions such as safekeeping, deposit, and securities certificates withdrawal and transfer of ownership/rights of the said instruments of Securities will be carried out by SEBON. Nepalese stock market is still underdeveloped and there is lapse that needs to be identified. Hence, the present study is conducted in order to f ind investors awareness and participation in Nepalese stock market. 1.1.3 Retail Investors in Nepal Investing Answers defines retail investors as an individual who purchases securities for his or her own personal account rather than for an organization. Generally retail investors trade in much smaller amounts than institutional investors such as pensions and mutual funds. Unfortunately, there is no data on the investors. But estimates are that there could be nearly 1 million retail investors (Ghimire, 2016) .The major problems of the stock market are unavailability of information, influenced by small number of large investors, insufficiency of legal rules and regulations, insufficient number of brokers and issue managers rumor based market, insufficient knowledge of investors etc. The retail investors are mainly driven by the rumor based market. (Dahal, 2010) . 1.1.4 Stock Market Participation and Financial Literacy While reviewing the previous research, I found that financial literacy can have direct implications on stock market participation by retail investors . People with low financial literacy are more likely to have problems with debt (Lusardi and Tufano 2009), are less likely to participate in the stock market (van Rooij, Lusardi and Alessie 2007), are less likely to choose mutual funds with lower fees (Hastings and Tejeda-Ashton, 2008), are less likely to accumulate wealth and manage wealth effectively (Stango and Zinman, 2007; Hilgert, Hogarth and Beverly 2003). 1.2 Statement of Problem There has been few research conducted on financial literacy in Nepal. Some of them are (Bharat Singh Thapa, 2015) College students have basic level of financial knowledge and their level of financial knowledge is determined by their family income, age, stream of education, type of college they study and their financial attitude. The study found that in basic level of finance, students are more knowledgeable while students are less familiar with bank credit, taxes, financial statement, insurance, and share markets. (Chaulagain, 2015) Financial literacy of individuals increases the likelihood of access to sustainable finance for identifying and consuming appropriate financial services competitively. The financial literacy is necessary but not sufficient condition for enhancing access to finance, neither it is a panacea for all the financial problems. Baidhya and Parajuli (2004) Awareness increase amongst the general public about the capital market, regarding nature of risk and return, through promotional campaigns, seminars, publications, and programs in FM/TV etc. In those research, they are focused about determinant of financial literacy and stock market awareness. In this research, we are concerned about the relationship between financial literacy and stock market participation by retail investors in Nepal. Probably this research has never been conducted in Nepal before. This research tends to meet the shortcoming of comprehensive measures of financial literacy and is linked with the economic outcome: Stock market participation by Nepali retail investors. 1.3 Research Objectives The main objective of this study is to find out the relationship between financial literacy and stock market participation by retail investors in Nepal and to measure retail investors financial knowledge. 1.4 Significance of the study The findings of this study will be useful to Nepal Stock exchange (NEPSE), Security Board of Nepal (SEBON), Policy makers, individual retail investors and different government agencies. With the help of my research, people will be able to know the impact of financial literacy on stock market participation by retail investors. My research will help the academic sector and business school students. Part of the core activity of the Securities Board of Nepal is investor education and awareness. As such the SEBON has a division to facilitates this divisions. Different financial awareness programs have been actively conducted over the years in diverse location. With this research, SEBON can formulate targeted financial literacy programmes, especially on stock market. 1.5 Limitation of the study There will certain limitation while doing this study . There is time constraint of 6 months Study is conducted in Kathmandu area only . The respondent while doing survey may not be willing to give the proper data 1.6 Research question/hypotheses Research Question What is the relationship between financial literacy and stock market participation by retail investors in Nepal? Hypothesis 1: Null Hypothesis: (There is no significant relationship between financial literacy and stock market participation by retail investors in Nepal.) Hypothesis 2: Null Hypothesis: (Gender, age, level of education and specialization on personal financial management has no impact on stock market participation by retail investor in Nepal) . 1.7 Theoritical framework       The theoretical framework is developed as it serves as a foundation on which the entire research is based . Investors awareness is referred as the investor literacy and updated information about the investment environment. InvestorsÃâ€" ³ exposure and information about the industry is measured by the level of awareness. Many research has been conducted in this area. some of them are: Paudyal (2010) Nepal particularly can learn from Indian market. India has formed National Institute of Securities Market (NISM) with huge physical infrastructure with the collaboration of industrial houses and different universities regarding investors education and awareness. Similarly, it can learn in the areas of the functioning of stock exchange central depository system of securities, instruments diversification, investors education and awareness building, adoption of information technology and opening the secondary market for NRN and foreign institutional investors (FIIs). Baidhya and Parajuli (2004) Promotional campaigns, seminars, publications, and programs in FM/TV etc. can be used to increase awareness amongst the general public about the capital market, regarding nature of risk and return. Volpe et al. (2002) Investors knowledge varied with peoples age, experience, education, income and gender. The online investors are more likely to be influenced by financial misinformation and manipulation. So, they should have more knowledge about stocks than normal investors to succeed in the securities market. Maditinos et al. (2007) Professional investors rely more on fundamental and technical analysis whilst individual investors rely more on noise in the market and newspapers/media when making their investment decisions. Jagongo and Mutswenje (2014) The very important factors that guide individual investment decisions were: reputation and firms status in industry, expected corporate earnings, expected divided by investors, and past performance firms stock. Luigi Guiso and Tullio Jappelli on Awareness and Stock Market Participation was conducted in 1995 and 1998. The objective of this study was a) to analyze the lack of awareness of financial assets (1995 and 1998) in Bank of Italy Surveys of Household Income and Wealth. b) to explore the determinants of awareness c) to find that the probability that survey respondents are aware of stocks, investments accounts and mutual fund is positively correlated with education, household resources, long- term bank relations and proxies for social interaction. Haliassos and Bertaut (1995) They investigated factors explaining financial education and finding among its results whether university education influences more weight in the decision to invest in the stock market or those with lower educational provision, preferring savings deposits as an investment option. Attanasio, Banks, and Tanner (2002) They studied about implications of limited participation in stock markets and the asset market. Their finding shows that a) the probability of having or invest in assets, is associated with factors such as age, and educational level b) the positive effect of higher education in the stock market tends to decrease over time. Roncallo (2009) In his findings, Colombian capital market was backward in comparison to developed countries, Latin American countries, and several Asian countries due to the lack of knowledge and awareness of the general public and businesses. And also, highlights that the creation of specially designed market such as the Centre for development of the capital market institutions, for the strengthening and development of this market, has failed to make a real impact on the target audience i.e. businesses and the general public, evidenced in the lack of knowledge about the importance and functioning of the capital market. (Chaulagain, 2015) Financial literacy of individuals increases the likelihood of access to sustainable finance for identifying and consuming appropriate financial services competitively. The financial literacy is necessary but not sufficient condition for enhancing access to finance, neither it is a panacea for all the financial problems. Baidhya and Parajuli (2004) Awareness increase amongst the general public about the capital market, regarding nature of risk and return, through promotional campaigns, seminars, publications, and programs in FM/TV etc. 3.1 Research Design A detailed outline of how an investigation will take place. A research design will typically include how data is to be collected, what instruments will be employed, how the instruments will be used and the intended means for analyzing data collected (Business Dictionary, 2016) . Descriptive survey research design will be used because research intended to explore the relationship between different variables which forms financial literacy and stock market participation by retail investors . 3.2 Population and Sample Size The population of study will be comprised of key players in the stock market, which includes investors, employees working in stock market and stock brokers. This study will be based in capital city Kathmandu, where stock market activities are concentrated and people get involved in share market from around the country. The sample size for study will be as per convenience-sampling technique and respondents will be selected as per their convenient accessibility. 3.3 Nature and Source of Data This study is both quantitative and qualitative in nature. It uses primary data obtained through questionnaires for analysis. Questionnaires are the most commonly used instrument in gathering and measuring qualitative data because they present the same questions to all respondents thereby fostering a comparable basis for assessment. 3.4 Instrumentation of Data Different statistical techniques will be used for analyzing data, which includes regression analysis and descriptive statistics . Graphs, frequency tables and charts were used for results 3.5 Models Specification The model that will be used in this study is based on the equation and econometric model adopted from Chong Lal, (2011) as below Y= ÃŽÂ ²0 + ÃŽÂ ²1 +ÃŽÂ ²2 +ÃŽÂ ²3 +ÃŽÂ ²4 + à ¢Ã‹â€ Ã‹â€  Where: Y = Stock market participation. ÃŽÂ ²o= constant term ÃŽÂ ²1 = Financial Literacy Score ÃŽÂ ²2 = Age of respondent ÃŽÂ ²3 = Gender of respondent ÃŽÂ ²4 = Income of respondent à ¢Ã‹â€ Ã‹â€ = disturbance term with an expected value of zero. The model helps better understand how the independent variables are related to the dependent variable and explored the form of their relationship. 3.6 Reliability and Validity of Data The research superviser and research expert of Business school will be requested to evaluate the applicability and validity of the research . Pre-test and re-test method will be done before the actual research . Bharat Singh Thapa, S. R. (2015). Financial Literacy in Nepal: A Survey Analysis from College Students. Financial Literacy in Nepal: A Survey Analysis from College Students, 26. Business Dictionary. (2016, 12 17). Retrieved from BusinessDictionary.com. WebFinance, Inc. : http://www.businessdictionary.com/definition/research-design.html CDS and Clearing Limited. (2011). Retrieved from CDS and Clearing Limited: http://www.cdscnp.com/ Chaulagain, R. P. (2015). Financial Literacy for Increasing Sustainable Access to Finance in Nepal. NRB Working Paper series, 18. Dahal, S. (2010). A STUDY ON NEPALESE STOCK MARKET IN THE LIGHT OF ITS GROWTH, PROBLEMS AND PROSPECTS. Kathmandu. Ghimire, S. (2016, December 8). Retail Share Investors In Nepal. (K. Timilsina, Interviewer) Investopedia. (n.d.). Retrieved from Investopedia: http://www.investopedia.com/terms/f/financial-literacy.asp Investopedia . (n.d.). Retrieved from NASDAQ: IAC: http://www.investopedia.com/terms/o/over-the-countermarket.asp Kathmandupost. (n.d.). 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A Character Analysis of the Book “A Painted House”

How do unpleasant realities of life are presented and experienced by a seven-year-old boy? As the child travels from being an innocent into becoming an experienced person, both the good and bad facets of life will eventually shape his emotions, perspectives and dealings with other people.In doing so, the breaking of the child’s innocence turns into a learning experience which he and even the people around him may use as an instrument to continue living in accordance with the norms of the society. While it is expected that life realities, when witnessed from a boy’s point of view, may be rather unclear or incomplete, this does not necessarily mean that the child is totally unaware and unmoved of its accompanying and eventual implications.This is because a child may be physically small but he is able to grasp what the society is presenting to him and ultimately identifies the good and bad things which he needs to keep and disregard, respectively. Manifestations of such ab ilities are evident among almost all children because they are naà ¯ve by nature.Such innate and youthful characteristics open a child to many opportunities and possibilities. When guided properly, a child may use life realities, however harsh they are, to work to his or her advantage and even to the benefit of other people and the society in general.One book which ideally depicts the said quality of a child in John Grisham’s 2001 book titled â€Å"A Painted House.† Aside from its notable plot, which is about the story-telling of a seven-year-old boy of the struggles facing his family’s cotton-picking business in rural Arkansas in 1952, the Grisham novel is most worth-reading because of the character of the young protagonist – Luke Chandler (Grisham, 2001).In fact, it is the said struggles which brought out the best in Luke because of the fact that even at a young age, he is determined to help out in their business and in his little way, solve the proble ms even if his mother always tells him: â€Å"Don’t worry.The men will find something to worry about† (Grisham 1). The ways how Luke dealt with his growing-up miseries through his exposure to the cruel realities of life, Grisham succeeded in imparting to the public a touching novel about a child’s journey from being an innocent child into becoming a knowledgeable person (Grisham, 2001).Manifestations of above awakening are evident with the power of Luke to overcome the cruelties in his life which he personally witnessed. These include a murder, a rape incident which has resulted into pregnancy and an illegitimate child, the poverty of the Mexicans and hill people and other adult-related obstacles.The novel, as seen from the view of Luke, told of the unwavering determination of the Chandler family to make their business survive and show to the people of Arkansas that despite living in an unpainted house, their cotton-picking trade will pick up. While the author s tands out in his law-related books because of their plots, Grisham’s A Painted House novel definitely shines because of the character of Luke.Using the first-person point of perspective of Luke, the author effectively provided the public with a view of the hardships which then challenged the people of Arkansas (Grisham, 2001).Through the eyes of Luke, A Painted House serves as a blank paper where the author excellently writes the details which happened in the United States after World War II. The character of the protagonist is one which is filled with many real incidents and people albeit presented through Luke’s youthful point of view. In fact, Luke’s life is very simple and his world is small with the family’s business of cotton-picking being his concentration.The child in Luke is presented in the book many times with the Chandler family trips to town on Saturdays, church activities on Sundays, special treats at carnivals and the boy’s ultimate dream to play baseball as attested by his statement that he will not be a farmer but a baseball player (Grisham 5).However, as Luke takes on his journey, becomes exposed to the characters in his life such as his family and the workers composed of the hill people and Mexicans as well as harsh realities of life, the boy unwittingly somehow grows as an experienced person even at a young age.Hence, it is worthy to consider how Luke, in his simple yet uplifting manner, is able to address and cope with cruel issues which confronted his young life. The life realities which are too enormous and difficult for Luke to realize but triumphantly handled include the ethical conflicts about a murder case, a child born out of wedlock and even the financial destruction that hit the area.Despite these cruelties which Luke’s innocence may be unable to understands, it is remarkable to consider that the boy’s naà ¯ve personality managed the said dilemmas. Beyond Luke’s notable trai ts and abilities in his original innocence as manifested by his child-like faith when he believes that God has control over anything just like there is reason when rains sweep away their harvests.It is during the boy’s journey, where he is faced with the true events of life, that Luke is able to attain his experience and realizes that indeed there is reason for every thing that happens. This is evident when he said â€Å"I was certain there was a reason the Cardinals lost the pennant, but I couldn’t understand why God was behind it† (Grisham 251).

Liquids and Solids Essay

The purpose of this experiment is to examine the properties of several gasses, which were the products of a reaction, and examine the way the gasses react under certain conditions. These conditions, such as introducing a flame to the gas as well as oxygen and CO2, caused other reactions to occur. Experiment Before I began the experiment I gathered all my supplies from the given list in the lab manual. From there I began the actual experiment and diluted the HCL placed in a test tube and then placed the ZN in the tube as well. I placed the stopper and gas delivery plastic system on the test tube and arranged the tube in the well plate. I then took the test tube filled with water inverted it and placed on top of the gas delivery system, I had the well plate in a large bowl in case of flow over. I then removed and placed my thumb over the opening so gas wouldn’t escape I lit a match and held it approx. 1 cm away and allowed a small drop from the pipet onto the flame to observe the reaction. From here I took my pipet bulb and marked it in 3 equal parts with a marker. I filled the pipet with water and set it into the gas generation tube. When it was about 2/3 full of gas I removed it and set it facing down into the well holder as per the directions. I then cleaned up the other test tube disposed of the acid and washed the test tube and rubber stopper with water thoroughly. I then began the oxygen portion of the experiment where I placed some Mn into a test tube. I added some hydrogen peroxide and filled to nearly the top. I placed the rubber stopper with gas delivery system and put into the well plate in a straight position. I filled the pipet with water and once again inverted it and placed in on top of the gas delivery system. I then watched as it became displaced with oxygen and removed it placed my thumb over it so it wouldn’t escape.

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Anyone or anything that is rational possesses will, whether it is a human being or a field mouse. Freedom is the property that this causality has. Thus, a free will can be defined as a will that can act causally without being caused by external sources. Any action not based on a form of law would be seen as groundless and unjustified and we then would not be able to say our actions were the result of our own will. Kant adds to this point by saying the laws we base our actions upon must be self-imposed. They cannot be imposed by outside sources because then, our actions would just be based on natural necessity; we would simply be reacting to external causes. To see how Kant’s statement translates into saying an autonomous will is bound by†¦show more content†¦Second, morality must be independent of subjective principles because if the two are intermingled, moral principles become confused with desires and wants, which is a one-way ticket to moral degeneration. To clarify, the categorical imperative is not a concrete law one uses to achieve morality. In other words, the law of morality is that one should act in such a way that what he or she does can be applied to every other rational being. Having established what morality is and how one achieves it, we are now able to discuss Kant’s Formula of Autonomy to explain how Kant’s original statement means that an autonomus will is bound to moral law. In other words, the Formula of Autonomy explicitly states that the categorical imperative doesn’t simply tell rational beings to blindly adhere to the moral law; rather it tells them to follow the moral law that they as rational beings build upon through their maxims. The significance of this Formula is that it implies rational beings are truly free in the sense that they are free from dependence. The fact that the moral law that rational beings are bound to is a product of their own will means that they are still acting according to their will. 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Question: Write about theResearch Skills in Contemporary Health Environment. Answer: Research plan The fertility rates in women are facing different challenges. Different complex conditions are arising in the issue of fertility of women. The aim of the research proposal is to identify the technique of IVF and how can it be used in a very strategic way to prevent the infertility at different cases. Infertility is majorly stuck with the women who undergo radiation and chemotherapies during cancer treatment (Fauser et al, 2014). It has already been found that women after the chemotherapies find more difficulty in getting pregnant than the normal women with fertility issues. The following research will aim to find if freezing of the IVF embryos can be suitable to increase the ovulation and can treat wide variety of fertility cases in women (Rienzi, Iussig Ubaldi, 2017). IVF finds many difficulties and needs variety of research. The issues that can be included here are the increase in ovulation among the cancer survival women and the decrease in the miscarriage rates. The research plan will be made by first undertaking a pivot study in how delay in attachment of the embryos to mothers womb can be effective in increasing the ovulation rate more than the control case when the embryos were attached faster. Best practice and management in quality of the practice will hugely impact the success of the research study. The research study will be investigation study. The study design will be supportive more with the qualitative study. The data will be collected on the basis of evidence based study. The data collected will be primary data. The research will be undertaken through a series of questionnaires from the patients who have received the treatments from the freeze in the embryo attachment during IVF. The major factor that influences the health care is the regular investigation and survey of any research method that is implicated in a field. Thus this pivot study on the health environment of the ovulation rates in IVF will be very effective. In context of the physical and emotional support needs the team of members that will carry out the research on the fertility issue must be very compassionate to ask all the items of questions. Few of the questions can do harm to the emotions of some women who are infertile and have not responded the particular research application. The individual clients perceptions might affect. Some of the clients might feel they have been asked with personal questions and they might not respond with free. Specially, the clients of middle age could be having some close minded perceptions. In the terms of the research work, it should be carried in such a way that it might not breech the ethical issues, might understand the mental condition of the clients who are being asked. The socio economic rules are to be considered while carrying out the research work. In some cultures the women and men mixing are not free. There will be aggregate of people with different cultures, income, social cohesion, collective efficiency. Thus the team members must be culturally competent during the question sessions with the different groups of people. In case the patient herself not free to talk about the issues then her other members in the family could be interrogated. Literature review The research is carried out to find if delay in embryo attachment be more effective in increasing the ovulation of patients with different clinical fertility conditions. It has already been found that women undergoing IVF who have high levels of progesterone, when their eggs were retrieved had more benefit with the resulting frozen embryos. The egg is to be transferred back to the uterus at a late date. It is already known that IVF which is the invitro fertilization technique is the process which includes the injections of the reproductive hormones can stimulate multiple egg formation. IVF can be made in petridish of the laboratory and the synthetic embryos when synthesized will be injected into women (Reed,et al 2015). New research method includes the transfer back to mothers uterus can be done at a very later stage in the subsequent hormonal cycle. The following reaserch program will make survey and answer the question if the frozen embryo transfer will be more effective than the f resh embryo transfer and can increase the critical case of increasing the ovulation of cancer survival women (Shavit et al, 2015). They have done research and found that the speculations that freezing embryos and waiting them to be transferred during different cycle will give aN opportunity for progesterone and other hormones to fall to levels. This condition will make it susceptible for the hospitality of the implantation to be more effective. The database the researchers used for this included the information about the implantation rates and to which IVF cycle led to pregnancies lasting long enough for the patients (Irani, et al, 2015). The method by which research is done through the investigation study is to see if the assessment in the research aim will be fruitful. The research will be carried on through survey techniques that will ask a set of short questions to come to a conclusion of how the freeze method in embryo transfer be effective in inducing ovulation (Roque et al, 2015). The questions will be asked on the health conditions and their success story of pregnancy. The following study will be qualitative study will determine the quality of the freezing technique used in IVF. The quality will be declared superior if at all there will be some percent rise in the fertility issue of the cancer survival women. The primary data will then be statistically analyzed to come to a conclusion (George et al, 2016). The ethical and cultural awareness should be there among the team members who are going to carry out the research plan. As it is already known there is a wide diversity among the people on the basis of culture, beliefs and ethics. The research should be carried out in such a way that they can respect all the personal beliefs of the person. Such will make the research plan very effective. The cultural competence and realization of cultural identity are mainly to be maintained while carrying out the survey project (Li et al, 2016. The type of data will be primary data. This means the data is to be collected from the clients having the experience with the new method used in the new methodology used in the IVF. The data are to be collected with clients of different fertility conditions. This will help to find in which condition will this technique be more faithful and the ones that are not effective at all. The main barriers in the research are the ethical issues among different people. Some of the clients will not be free enough to answer all the questions being asked in the interview. Fertility matter is always a sensitive issue in the women or in the family members. It is also a matter of emotions, so the survey must be done carefully with compassion only after understanding the cognitive states of the clients. The results suggested that the following methods were more effective among the normal women who had fertility problems than those women who has recently survived chemotherapies. The results also concluded that this method will also be helpful to detect the anomalies in the chromosomal and genes which can be used for the early diagnosis of the rare genetic diseases. The survey that were carried out showed that about 59% of the embryos performed with the frozen led had success while the 40% only showed success rate in pregnancy by only using fresh transfers (Meng et al, 2015). The validity, efficiency and cost effectiveness if judged from the research, it can be found that the research lacks the methods that can be used in the improvements of the ovulation for the cancer survival patients. The ongoing research has help in infusing the encouragement that the technique if refined further could help in the ovulation of almost all the women with different conditions (Barahona et al, 2015) Role play and simulations The following research has helped in the finding that the freezing technique used in the IVF could be useful in increasing ovulation of the women. May be in future it can be more effective in increasing the ovulation in cancer survival women. The past research findings have already mentioned that future of the IVF can make more success stories treating a wide variety of disorders related to ovulation. The nursing research methodologies that was used is the pivot study done by a group of expert nurses. The ethical issues that were considered like the confidentiality, duty of care, public liability, cultural and religious consideration, support of ideas of the clients, individual clients beliefs and the needs of families or significant others. The limitation in the study was the quality improvement evaluation. The data was collected by interviews in asking different questions. It was analysed statistically to come to a conclusion. A team of expert nurses and physicians were involved in this collection. There are areas with find if IVF could lead ovarian or breast in the women. Further researches are required in the areas. References Barahona, P., Leigh, D., Ritchie, W., McArthur, S. J., Jansen, R. P. (2015). Array CGH and Partial Genome Sequencing for Rapidly Karyotyping IVF Blastocysts Before Single Transfer. InScreening the Single Euploid Embryo(pp. 163-178). Springer International Publishing. Fauser, B. C. J. M., Devroey, P., Diedrich, K., Balaban, B., Bonduelle, M., Delemarre-Van De Waal, H. A., ... Lerner-Geva, L. (2014). Health outcomes of children born after IVF/ICSI: a review of current expert opinion and literature.Reproductive biomedicine online,28(2), 162-182. George, N. J., Halverson, R., McCann, C. R., Hibray, C., Letterie, G., Ball, G. (2016). Laser collapse of blastocysts prior to vitrification leads to lower spontaneous abortion rates.Fertility and Sterility,106(3), e136. Irani, M., Kalgi, B., Mor, A., Kaliappan, S., Garg, D., Homel, P., Grazi, R. (2015). Cryopreservation technique and duration of storage affect pregnancy outcomes in frozen-thawed embryo transfer cycles.Fertility and Sterility,104(3), e196. Li, M. W., Glass, O. C., Zarrabi, J., Baker, L. N., Lloyd, K. K. (2016). Cryorecovery of mouse sperm by different IVF methods using MBCD and GSH.Journal of fertilization in vitro,4(2). Meng, H., Zeng, Q., Cai, L., Ma, L., Liu, J., Chian, R. (2015). The correlation between embryo development during culture in vitro and clinical outcomes following vitrification-warming on day-3 embryos.Fertility and Sterility,104(3), e196. Reed, B. G., Ezzati, M., Babayev, S. N., Libby, V., Carr, B., Bukulmez, O. (2015). Minimal stimulation in vitro fertilization (IVF) with a freeze-all approach gives acceptable live birth rates in an overall poor prognosis population.Fertility and Sterility,104(3), e321. Rienzi, L., Iussig, B., Ubaldi, F. M. (2017). Vitrification of Oocytes for IVF.Principles of IVF Laboratory Practice: Optimizing Performance and Outcomes, 138. Roque, M., Valle, M., Guimares, F., Sampaio, M., Geber, S. (2015). Freeze-all policy: fresh vs. frozen-thawed embryo transfer.Fertility and sterility,103(5), 1190-1193. Shavit, T., Oron, G., Tulandi, T., Son, W., Holzer, H., Buckett, W. (2015). Single embryo transfer of frozen-thawed embryos is associated with increased maternal complications.Fertility and Sterility,104(3), e196.