The effect of diversifying the investment portfolio in reducing investment risk

Applied research in the Iraqi Stock Exchange

Abstract

The current research aims to measure the impact of diversification in the investment portfolio represented by (risk, return) in order to reduce investment risk, and in order to achieve the goal of the research was selected Iraq Stock Exchange as an application sample of research, as these markets are a group of important sectors that constitute a group of companies As the number of companies involved in the Iraqi market for securities for the period (2011 - 2017) in the analysis by (5) companies are distributed over three sectors namely the industrial sector, the insurance sector and the investment sector, ie on a time series of 9 years, in order to extract Results in view of data drawn from The research sample resorted to the use of a set of important indicators in the financial analysis, which were (analysis of the disclosure of the variance of the portfolio of common stock returns and retained earnings, and risk and return and risk pricing of the portfolio of returns for shares), and therefore reached a set of results Most notably, there is a relationship to the retained earnings in building the investment portfolio of the research sample companies, which positively reflects on both the return and the risk in the formation of the portfolio while the stock relations were volatile.