The Influence of Risk on Investment Decision Making

The theme of this thesis is The Influence of Risk on Investment Decision Making. In the first part of this work, the reader is introduced to the basic vocabulary relevant to financial market and to each type of financial instruments. Important part of the work is explaining the risk itself and further the description of methods used to quantify the risk of such instruments. The practical part shows the application of the methods of risk analysis on a selection of stock shares. The results of the analysis are then summarised and compared