Seminar paper from the year 2016 in the subject Business economics - Banking, Stock Exchanges, Insurance, Accounting, grade: 1,0, Edinburgh Napier University, language: English, abstract: The following report analyses the investment of £55,000 into a portfolio of companies listed on the London Stock Exchange. As the current market situation is very unstable, I tried to diversify the portfolio in different aspects. First, the sectors I invested in do not intersect a lot, second, 50% of the firms, I primarily invested in at week 1, are within the FTSE 100 Index, the other 50% are in the FTSE 250, FTSE 350 or the FTSE All Share Indices. The following table displays the initial allocation in week 1 starting 13th January 2016.