Equity portfolio construction for investor's in Indian capital market with special reference to pharmaceutical, logistics and telecommunication sectors

This paper focus an optimal equity portfolio construction with reference to pharmaceutical, logistics and telecommunication sectors based on Sharpe's index model. To illustrate the model, a real portfolio selection problem is presented. The study is carried out to fulfill the objectives like (i) to construct an optimal portfolio by implementing Sharpe's index model. (ii) To know the proportion of each security in the optimal portfolio. This paper aims at developing an optimal portfolio of equity of Pharmaceutical, Logistics and Telecommunication sector, through Sharpe-s Index Model. For the study, five companies in each sector traded in NSE were taken and the optimal portfolio was constructed with total 15 companies.