A Survey and Comparison of Investment Opportunities, in Short, Medium and Long Term Periods in Iran

Investors invest in variety of markets with different time viewpoints. They aim to find the best investment opportunities among the various markets. This study surveys about various available markets in Iran. Then، the average of returns، performances and finally correlations between these markets will be studied in the short-term (three months)، medium-term (one year) and long-term (five years) periods. The populations of present study are securities، land and housing، gold coins، currency (US dollar) and bonds markets. The results of this study indicate that there is a little difference between the average returns of different markets in the short and medium terms period and bonds have better performance during short and medium terms period while they have very low risk. But in long-term period land and housing are the best among markets، either in average of returns or performance. The lowest average of return and the worst performance in all terms belonged to the US dollar