Analysis the Influence of Investment Knowledge and Investment Habits against the Investment Champion in the Pandemic COVID Period: Evidence from Indonesia

Abstract

Knowledge of investment regarding the characteristics of benefits and costs of mutual fund products is still very minimal and access to market information on the mutual fund is limited which can be an investment alternative that can be used by the Samarinda community. This Community Service Program aims to provide investment knowledge of mutual fund products through online media whose information can be accessed by every community, especially Samarinda. The PkM program was implemented in 5 sub-districts of welcome sub-districts and 5 sub-districts of Sungai Pinang sub-district on July 8 to August 18 2020 using the online / virtual face-to-face meeting method with online problem solving steps, namely the first step to provide investment knowledge education and introduction to mutual fund product characters, the second step is distributing online questionnaires to community respondents, the third step is processing the questionnaire data, and the fourth step is collecting empirical references and interpreting the observed data. The pandemic covid 19, this motion as investors turned the people of refracting life changed, his extensive and complex investment and the confidence to reach the fixed investment can be achieved .This research includes 268 respondents, the data processed with validity test, reliability test and hypotheses test with analysis 1-10 scale semantic, the independent variable obtained that investment 56,2 percent knowledge and confidence can explain the variable dependent of champion investment in the pandemic covid19 Samarinda Town Kalimantan east of Indonesian society.