Įdomi ir vertinga monografija

Abstract

Vilnius Pedagogical University press recently published the monograph “Management of Investment Decisions” by Aleksandras Vytautas Rutkauskas and Petras Stankevičius. The monograph was reviewed by prof. dr. habil. V. Gerasimčiuk (Kiev Polytechnic Un iversity), prof. dr. habil. J. Mackevičius (Vilnius University) and prof. dr. A. Temičev (Minsk Polytechnic University). The monograph is in the Lithuanian language and consists of 374 pages. It is compl imented because of late decades larger or smaller financial crises happened in many countries of the world. These crises sorely rebounded on economy development and on investors’ profitability and risk level.

The authors of the monograph deal with a very important theme. Systematized knowledge about investment process and methods, which evaluate profitability and risk of investment, are of great scientific and practical significance. For this reason A. V. Rutkauskas and P. Stankevičius monograph “Management of Investment Decisions” can be highly valued.

The authors state that “investment is a capital resort way which should ensure capital safety and value increase”. Almost all nine monograph chapters (three sections) are aimed at analyzing, developing and forming recommendations for this motif.

It is complimented that A. V. Rutkauskas and P. Stankevičius have analyzed several methods of investment portfolio profitability evaluation and optimal investment portfolio creation. Surely, the most important thing is the right investment decision-making considering the results of risk quantitative measurement and economic est imation. The authors systemized investment decision-making process and broadly analyzed decision-making methods.

The monograph is considered to make u significant contribution into the field of investment decisions both from the theoretical and practical point of view.