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Management in Context Share Portfolio 1.1 Introduction For thirteen weeks from the 30th September 2002 we compiled a share portfolio of five major companies listed in the London stock market. The companies share prices were analysed in comparison to the FTSE 100 share index. The chosen companies for our portfolio were British Gas, Colgate Palmolive, mm02, P & O Princess and Selfridges. One percent handling costs and VAT at 17.5% was deducted from the fifty thousand pounds we had to invest. The remaining balance was then divided equally between the five shares chosen. We found that a number of different economic and political factors affected the price of the shares and the FTSE 100 share index. These can be seen below on the time line. 2.1 Timeline The FTSE100 before 30 September The FTSE 100 index had been in decline dropping to below 4000 points by July of 2002. This was due to a global economic slow down...

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