Modeling internationally diversified investment portfolio

Abstract

A diversified portfolio can deliver improved performance and lessened risk relative to not diversified one. The diversification may be achieved in different ways: an investor may allocate money in different asset classes; or in stocks of different industries; or in bonds with different maturities; or in stocks with large, middle and small market capitalization; or in different commodities and so on. Another way is international (global) diversification. The paper aim is to form an optimal investment portfolio containing assets of different countries. To achieve this the following tasks should be solved: carry out a preliminary financial analysis of assets (stock indices) of different countries and determine the set of assets that are eligible for investment; form an optimal portfolio of selected stock indices; carry out a comparative analysis of the efficiency of the obtained portfolio and the benchmark portfolio, which is domestically oriented. The proposed algorithm for modeling internationally diversified optimal portfolio includes the following core steps: forming the information base of the research; classification of assets into homogeneous groups and detecting the group that is suitable for the investment; modeling diversified portfolio and a benchmark portfolio; comparison of obtained portfolios performance.