*Head and associate professor, PSGR Krishnammal college for women, peelamedu, Coimbatore, Tamilnadu, India, 641004
**Research scholar, PSGR Krishnammal college for women, Peelamedu, Coimbatore, Tamilnadu, India, 641004
This research work concentrates on the Optimal Portfolio Construction of selected stocks from NSE (National Stock Exchange) using Sharpe's Single Index model. Constructing a Portfolio is a difficult task for the individual investors and the institutional investor's. Every investors having a target of getting highest investment return at a given level of risk. So by conducting this study the researcher can get a practical knowledge and also can create awareness in the minds of the investors. For this purpose fifty companies listed in the NSE had been selected. Out of the fifty companies only eleven companies were included in the optimal portfolio construction. The results of the present study and such micro level studies enables investors to go for scientific diversification and also have more utility value to the fund managers of emerging economies like India where the capital markets are still in their developing stages and many foreign institutional investors are also interested to invest in the leading stock.
Beta, Cut-off rate, Excess return to beta Ratio
