Portfolio Management

This book on 'Portfolio Management' has been written to provide an insight into the world of investment and portfolio management with practical problems and solutions. This book consists of various portfolio theories and their application. This book explains attributes of investment and steps involved in the investment management. It provides guidance to investors taking long time horizon. It gives insights to the relationship of risk and return and how risk and return is to be measured. The work of the pioneers like Harry Markowitz and William Sharpe have been discussed for making an analysis of the portfolio and to diversify it, to get the maximum return. The Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM) and the Arbitrage Pricing Model (APT) have been discussed for explaining the pricing of assets. At the end of this book, various models of portfolio performance evaluations have been discussed. This book has been written as a book for investors as well as students of Management, Commerce, Accounting and Finance who would like an exposure to the investment environment in India.