Building an optimal investment portfolio for the Iraqi Stock Exchange - an applied study using the simple ranking method for the period 2014-2015

Abstract

The world has witnessed major changes in the past few decades at all levels, which have posed major challenges faced by business organizations with their various economic activities. Among the most important of these changes and transformations is globalization in all its forms and types, and most economic sectors have become intertwined and linked with each other through blocs and mergers to form entities among themselves. Giant.The process of building the investment portfolio and the multiple methods on which the construction process is based are of great importance in the financial field and reflect the steps that must be followed to make rational decisions in creating an investment portfolio that balances return and risk for a wide range of financial assets in the financial market. Therefore, this study aimed to build an optimal investment portfolio in the Iraq Stock Exchange for each year of the specified study years from 2014 to 2015, and to analyze the data of each portfolio separately and the stocks involved in building the optimal portfolio in a simple ranking method.