Management of Investment portfolio for some Iraq Sector companies

Master Thesis submitted to the Council of the College of Administration and Economics / University of Karbala as part of a Master’s degree of Science in Business AdministrationBy
Layla Muhssin Hassan Al – Hakeem
Supervisor
DR. Hakim MUHSSIN MOHAMMAD

The Present Study Tries to Show the phases of the investment portfolio which took important place in investment studies , and took various shapes and forms . This requires specification of its elements and types , focusing on some of these types which have specific importance in investment . The theoretical and practical chapters of the study deal with organizing , planning and controlling all what the individual owns of real assets to grow them . The importance of the study springs from financial and economic variables which the world economy witnessed by way of increasing capital flow in investment in finance markets . This can all be achieved through investment institutions , saving boxes , the development of financial , nonfinancial and banking institutions , taking care of getting fast profits and being away of risks . The study concentrates on the problem that investments mostly exist Without a scientific study or analysis for the nature and activity of enterprises and the dangers that co-occur with their economic activities . Moreover , there is no scientific knowledge of the financial and statistic analysis in studying investment in enterprises making , and building an investment portfolio for economic circumstances might reflect its effect in changing the return on and the risk . The aims of the study are building and analyzing the investment portfolio for some specific sect companies (the sample of the study ) by analyzing the return on and the risk of these companies . It also aims at identifying the best company in achieving less risk with a higher return on than that of the market portfolio , presenting a scientific programme for the Iraqi investor , gathering both theory and practice of the management of the investment portfolio , and designing the best investment portfolio for specific sect companies listed in Iraqi stock markets . It is hypothesized that : 1- Depending on scientific bases in building and choosing the best investment portfolio reduces the risk that investment is exposed to. 2-There is no statistical connecting relationship or nonmaterial effect between total risk and return on (the achieved , the required and equity) rates . The study concludes that risk is the most effective variable on the return on , and this specifies the required return on of the investment of investment portfolios . The study recommends that it is necessary to raise the sectors which deteriorated in the last years and which had great previous return on . These sectors were reduced afterwards because of security , political and economic problems , especially in the industrial and agricultural sectors. It also recommends supporting and developing stock markets to let investors know and study more the Iraqi markets and the levels of performance of companies , facilitate the procedures of selling and buying indices , participat in these markets to support investment , increase the economic growth and achieve welfare in all sectors .