Construction of Portfolio Using Sharpe Index Model with Special Reference to Shipping Industry in India

Today avenues for investment are abundant like bank deposits, insurance, property and shares etc. But taking investment decision is much tougher task. Analysis of the risk associated ivith each investment option and evaluates the return out of investment becomes very crucial. Tlie confidence of primary and secondary market investors also increased several fold, this change in scenario is encouraging people to invest in Stocks and Bonds who earlier park their savings like fixed deposits and other types of investments like gold, property. By using sharp index model we have constructed a portfolio for shipping industry. The stock prices were taken from the S&P CNX Nifty. The main objectives is to calculate the risk and return factors to help investors to arrive at decision of interest to invest money in return more and risk less companies and also gain knowledge of stock market. Findings and suggestions would help investor to choose the company to invest.