This IQP explores two distinct categories of investments for a total of five methods,
all of which are accessible to a student with a large sum of money.We have kept all of our investments in the same industry to eliminate as much variation as possible.The first category consists of the safety options, less likely to yield large profits but low risk and headache for an investor. The profits will carry extra weight due to ease
(from the investors perspective) of attaining them.Specifically, we will analyze three
longer - term investment s with the first being a deposit into a high yield money, the safest and least pro market savings account profitable choice we will evaluate Second, we will select a high performing, low cost ratio mutual fund, and purchase a money equivalent number of stocks in this fund. The final portion of the control of "safe investments" was to create a mini industrial average of sorts, buying one fifth of the funds each in five of the largest market capitalization stocks in the Pharmaceutical/healthcare industry.Purchases were restrained to one industry to eliminate some variability in the results. Companies in the same industry tend to behave more closely than companies in very different fields.