Investment Portfolio Management During the Period of Pandemic Uncertainty

The urgency of the topic is due to the change in the investment behavior of modern individual portfolio investors under the influence of technological progress, social development and pandemic crisis. Due to the presence of a huge number of modern investment portfolio management strategies, which include modeling the price movement of financial assets using the service of investment platforms and computer technologies, the research was carried out at a fairly deep level. The purpose of the GQW is to study changes in investment preferences of individual investors, to compare the impact of macroeconomic factors of past crises and the current one on investment portfolio management, as well as to model an investment portfolio during a pandemic uncertainty. The structure of the GQW is determined by the goals and objectives and consists of an introduction, a main part, divided into three chapters, conclusion, a list of used literature and annexes. In the introduction, the relevance of the topic is substantiated, the goal of writing the GQW is set, the object and subject of the research are determined, the tasks are set and the limitations of the research are formulated. The first chapter of the GQW discusses the principles of forming a portfolio of securities, describes possible strategies for forming a portfolio, and also presents the distinctive features of the current investment climate in the financial market. In the second chapter, a portrait of a modern Russian individual investor is presented, hypotheses are analyzed and their statistical significance is tested, a certain set of financial assets is selected using fundamental analysis, and the influence of macroeconomic factors on the change in price of individual financial instruments is analyzed. In the third chapter, the formation of an investment portfolio, its optimization, as well as forecasting the price movement of a financial asset, included in the portfolio, is made. The conclusion contains main inferences of the topic and prospects for further investigation of investment portfolio management.