%0 Journal Article %T CHARACTERISTICS OF INVESTMENT PORTFOLIOS PASSIVE MANAGEMENT STRATEGY ON THE CAPITAL MARKET %A MIHAELA SUDACEVSCHI %J Challenges of the Knowledge Society %D 2013 %I Nicolae Titulescu University of Bucharest %X The strategies of investment portfolios management on the capital market involves a range of transactions with different financial securities, aimed at optimizing the results. On a developed and efficient capital market, with a high liquidity level, portfolio management primarly depends on investorĄ¯s targeted level of return and the risk profile of the investor. Passive strategy of investment portfolios management is applied especially by risk aversion investors, who are taking into account all existing risks in the capital market and seeking to preserve the value of investments, rather than increasing its value. This strategy presume that the investor has no information about the prices and the return of securities that would make him to give to his investment portfolio a different structure from the structure of capital market portfolio. Therefore, he will seek a return level equal to the return on the market portfolio, minimizing the portfolio risk up to eliminating the specific risk. %K investment portfolios %K portfolio management %K Random ¨C walk theory %K risk aversion %K treasury bill %U cks.univnt.ro/uploads/cks_2013_articles/index.php?dir=2_Economic_Sciences%2F&download=cks_2013_economy_art_013.pdf