Investments Assets Stocks A stock is a share of ownership in a company, representing a claim on the company's assets and earnings. The importance of being a shareholder is that the investor has a claim on assets and is entitled to a portion of the company's profits, which may be paid out in the form of dividends (Stock basics, 2011). There are positive and negative aspects to stock ownership. One such positive is

Likewise, a young investor may hold mainly equities. Investor risk tolerance is another impediment to achieving asset class diversification. Investors will low risk tolerance, for example, are unlikely to hold high equity positions and even less likely to utilize more obscure securities like hedge funds. Yet, portfolios without equities may be highly susceptible to changes in the prevailing interest rates and therefore lack diversification. Indeed, for many investors a fully-diversified

Investment and Portfolio Analysis With the increasing economic downturn in the economy, the need of investment has increased considerable. The potential investors generally foregoes their current leisure and earnings and investment their earnings and expect to earn benefits in future for the same. For analyzing the investment, we have taken into consideration a hypothetical investor who has $50,000 which needs to be invested in different, in different assets. Investment is one of the

29% 2.1 Man Group 12.56% 12.94% 2.34% 1.5 Marks & Spencer Group 4.60% 17.10% 8.33% 0.8 Meggitt 2.62% 65.59% 4.64% 1.0 Morrison (Wm) Supermarkets 3.66% 13.23% 7.00% 0.4 3.05% 69.65% 25.61% 0.6 Old Mutual 3.24% 26.38% 0.41% 1.5 Pearson 3.77% 50.96% 8.51% 0.8 Petrofac Ltd. 2.15% 62.80% 11.03% 1.5 Prudential 3.47% 14.73% 0.54% 1.6 Randgold Resources Ltd. 0.45% 20.71% 14.89% 0.4 Reckitt Benckiser Group 3.57% 0.00% 12.35% 0.6 Reed Elsevier 4.10% 54.47% 34.72% 0.8 Resolution Ltd. 8.21% 0.00% -0.05% 1.0 Rexam 3.43% 23.66% 6.14% 0.8 Rio Tinto 2.66% 15.32% 4.87% 1.7 Rolls-Royce Holdings 2.16% 33.86% 5.18% 2.1 RSA Insurance Group 8.88% 15.67% 1.89% 1.0 SABMiller 2.01% 23.13% 6.16% 1.0 Sage Group 3.39% 6.89% 0.9 Sainsbury (J) 5.00% 11.50% 5.61% 0.8 Schroders 2.68% 8.82% 2.27% 1.4 Schroders (Non-Voting) 3.45% 8.82% 2.27% 0.8 Severn Trent 4.18% 7.81% 3.56% 0.4 Smith & Nephew 1.81% 41.03% 12.26% 0.8 Smiths Group 3.52% 44.25% 10.58% 1.1 Standard Chartered 3.20% 13.15% 0.81% 1.3 Standard Life 6.25% 12.32% 0.19% 1.1 Tate & Lyle 3.44% 16.67% 5.34% 0.6 Tesco 4.49% 16.36% 5.62% 0.7 Tullow Oil 0.83% 30.01% 6.10% 1.3 United Utilities Group 5.05% 7.08% 4.91% 0.4 Vedanta Resources 2.79% 13.60% 2.67% 2.2 Vodafone Group 5.25% 13.41% 5.27% 0.4 Whitbread 2.44% 17.73% 8.01% 0.8 Wolseley 1.91% 14.80% 3.44% 1.3 WPP 2.93% 73.30% 3.34% 1.2 Optimal Portfolio After carefully analyzing the table 1 and calculating the financial measures of all stocks in Table 1, we select one high performing stock from every industry listed to have well diversified portfolio. Based on our

Investments are the assets or items purchased with the anticipation to generate the income in the future. In the economic sense, investments refer to the goods and services purchased and not consumed today for the purpose of generating wealth in the future. Similarly, going to a university or building a factory to produce goods and services are the examples of investments. Within a financial environment, investors purchase assets with the

investment management in the financial sector. The paper highlights the world's present macroeconomic situation. It further details the macro economic situation and the way it affects investment decisions in several investors. In addition, the paper describes a sample investment programme and provides critical decisions to investors as well as investment vehicles used by the investment moguls. The paper summarises practical exercises in compound investment management growth and the use