Benefits of Risk Management on Investments and Portfolio Assets

For organisations operating in unpredictable and competitive markets, it becomes a challenge for fund managers to create an optimal investment portfolio for their companies and their clients. Fund managers are presented with various prospects in emerging markets, equities, real estate, corporate bonds, government bonds, hedge funds, financial derivatives, and other alternative investments options. With such a diverse investment market, it becomes increasingly complicated for fund managers and other investors to shape, manage and monitor investment portfolios. This report presents a discussion on the future strategic asset allocations which

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The data was collected with certain procedures. Initially, comprehend the research topic and objective, secondly, sketch the interview question by following the guidelines provided on QUT Blackboard as framework of the research. Subsequently, record and conduct the interview with qualified respondent. Then transcribed the interview conservation and uploaded to the online survey system. Lastly, download three other transcripts from class database of interview transcript.

The selected theories and concepts for this research will be used in designing the questions and setting the measures for the questionnaire and the interviews as well. In addition, the theories and behavioral models will be used in analyzing and better understand the data obtained and in setting up the results of the research.

Risk management is the demonstration or routine of managing risk. It incorporates getting ready for risk, recognizing risks, examining risks, creating Risk reaction techniques, and observing and controlling risks to decide how they have changed.

Investors always seek for a way that they can get back greatest return while enjoying minimized risk. Instead of investing in a single asset, holding a portfolio is obviously less risky. However, how to select the best portfolio among tens of thousands of assets in today’s financial market? The stringent need of investors promote the raising of modern portfolio theory. In 1952, Harry Markowitz [1] established the fundamental model of modern portfolio theory: the Markowitz model, also called the mean-variance model. This model aimed to achieve a tradeoff between the expected return and the risk of return. As shown in Figure 1, among all efficient portfolios, the efficient frontier consisted of all those with highest return at each given risk level. C_1,C_2,and C_3 were the investors indifference curves which showed that traders prefer portfolios with high return or low risk. The tangent point R of the highest indifference curve and the efficient frontier gave the optimized portfolio.

The study was carried out in Spencer’s hyper market belandur (varthur hobli), sarjapur road, Bangalore. With the help of primary data given by the respondent during survey and secondary data,

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