Using extensive and comprehensive databases to select a subset of research papers, we aim to critically analyze previous empirical studies to identify certain patterns in determining the optimal number of stocks in well-diversified portfolios in different markets, and to compare how the optimal...

In this paper, we compared the models for selecting the optimal portfolio based on different risk measures to identify the periods in which some of the risk measures dominated over others. For decades, the best known return-risk model has been Markowitz's mean-variance model. Based on the...

In this paper, we compared the models for selecting the optimal portfolio based on different risk measures to identify the periods in which some of the risk measures dominated over others. For decades, the best known return-risk model has been Markowitz's mean-variance model. Based on the...

The first index funds appeared in capital markets during the 1970s. Their investment strategy was based on replicating the fluctuations of some of the world's well-known stock market indexes. Legislation and regulation in Bosnia and Herzegovina, as in other neighboring countries, provides the...

The Sharpe-Lintner Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM) implies a simple linear equation for pricing risky financial assets, individually and in portfolios. CAPM finds that the relevant risk measure of individual financial assets held as a portion of a well-diversified portfolio is not a variance...

Using the Internet as a communication channel between a company and its stakeholders is a norm in today's economy, and the Web- based company reports have long replaced traditional forms of corporate reporting. Most investors base their entire first impression of a company on information...

Diversification possibilities enable investors to manage portfolio risk and decrease exposure to it, in order to prevent their portfolios from losing value. Well-diversified portfolio is the one that contains different asset classes with low return’s correlations. Essentially, portfolio...