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The formation of recently developed capital markets and expansion of investment alternatives inspires the investors to apply for the challenging investment strategies or search new alternatives for their capital investment. The paper states that among many other investment alternatives, stock market has a number of advantages, namely-the transparent procedure of the exchange market pricing and a variety of trade instruments allowing the potential investor to invest the capital in order to gain profit on a constant basis and in general to create an investment plan completely satisfying the requirements for material security, for financial independence achievement, or for creating own retirement account. The paper reveals that the prospect of profit completely levels risk of loss, despite short-term corrections of securities market and the crisis periods due to the fact that the growing trend proceeds much longer in relation to so-called "waves of corrections" and lasts about 10-12 years, it is in turn connected with business cycles which are overestimated on the stock market acting as the economy indicator in general. It is evident that investment operations in the stock market certainly make profit in the long term, however on the condition of investment portfolio active management it is possible to achieve significantly more profitability if correspondingly they will use speculative operations on shorter periods of time (from 1 week to several months) that is aimed to combine several tools in the trade strategy for maximizing potential profit and minimizing the possible risks. The authors proved that due to options it is possible to reach 30-40 % of annual portfolio profitability on condition of their proper use. Speculative strategies combining purchase and sale of several types of options enable to define the limit of possible risks and potential profit.

The paper has proved that socially responsible activities of enterprises in the current conditions are considered as an example of solidarity of business and the society in terms of contributing on improving the living standards of the population, in particular, to ensure decent conditions and remuneration, enhancing health care, reducing negative impacts on the environment. The article analyses the fact that due to the spread of COVID-19, businesses around the world are counting losses, and governments are developing anti-crisis measures for national economies. However, in a country with small open economies, a new significant expansion of the set of measures to the existing list can lead to the loss of millions of jobs and significant losses of budgets at various levels. It has been proven that entrepreneurs are responsible for the well-being of millions of employees and are also looking for possible ways to prevent the shutdown of enterprises, to avoid more complex consequences in order not to leave a significant part of the population without the means of subsistence. Therefore, for small open economies in a system of such methods, it is important to focus on the synergetic effect of the implementation of the socially responsible relationship of business, government, and individuals in the period of introduction of quarantine measures and dissemination practices for the implementation of socially responsible activities on macro and micro level which will get a positive result and minimize job loss of millions of people.

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The authors prove in the article that socially responsible activity of enterprises in the current conditions is considered as an example of solidarity of business and society to help save lives, and will help raise living standards of Ukrainians, in particular, providing decent working conditions and wages, improving health care, reducing the negative impact on the environment. The article analyzes that due to the spread of COVID-19, companies around the world are counting losses, and governments are developing anti-crisis measures for national economies. It is highlighted that in Ukraine, a new significant expansion of the set of measures to the existing list may lead to the loss of millions of jobs and significant losses of budgets at various levels. Entrepreneurs have been shown to be responsible for the well-being of millions of our employees and are also looking for possible ways to prevent businesses from shutting down to avoid more serious consequences and leave a large part of the country's population without livelihoods. Thus, for Ukraine in the system of such methods it is important to focus on the synergistic effect of the implementation of socially responsible business, state and human relations during the introduction of quarantine measures and the spread of socially responsible activities at the macro and micro levels.

The article covers the general theoretical regulations of supply of the population of Ukraine with the dairy products. The authors emphasize the matters of supply of material and technical recourses, achievement of just relations in supply system upon transfer of ownership along the walkway of raw materials and further of the ready product to customer. Purposefulness of application of the model of supply of the population of Ukraine with the dairy products developed by the authors is proved. The essence of this model consists in the closed cycle: production – sale - incomes – recourses market (and land market) – consumption – export – import – employment level – production. We reasoned direct relation of reduction of livestock population to rise of food price, when in the chain of production, processing and trade the incomes aggregate in the last stages of the chain and the initial goods producers sustain losses. The authors come to conclusion that creation of family farms will be successful providing that they integrate into cooperatives maintaining the closed cycle of production, processing and sale of ready products and as a result, the structural improvements will cause increase of profits and rise of employment of rural population.

(1) Background: The work-to-retirement transition involves a process of psychologically and behaviorally distancing oneself from the workforce that is often accompanied by other social changes, which can influence health and well-being. However, research on interventions targeting the work-to-retirement transition to improve health status is limited. Our objective was to summarize and describe interventions aiming to improve well-being across the retirement transition; (2) Methods: We conducted a scoping review following the methodological framework described by Arksey and O’Malley; the Joanna Briggs Institute guidelines as well as the PRISMA-ScR statements; we systematically searched articles and gray literature to identify interventions and policies that aimed to improve well-being across the retirement transition. (3) Results: 15 publications were included, which comprised both experimental designs (n = 10) and systematic reviews (n = 5). (4) Conclusions: More research on how to promote overall well-being during the work-to-retirement transition is needed. The results of this scoping review show that most reported interventions address one single lifestyle behavior, and that relevant social determinants of health have been barely considered in their design. Future investigations need to consider vulnerable groups and country-specific structural conditions. Adopting a patient and public involvement approach will contribute to developing interventions that address the significant needs of those in the transition to retirement.

The article is devoted to structuring and improving the methodological foundations of the mechanism of state regulation of the stock market. Priority directions for the development of the stock market are determined in order to strengthen its role in stabilization of the national economy. As a result, a structural and functional model of stock market operation in the system of economic development of the country was elaborated. It involves ensuring the legitimate access of national companies to the global stock markets while attracting foreign investors to the Ukrainian stock market. The authors argue that the mechanism of the national stock market integration involves several stages: from enhancing international cooperation primarily with the stock markets of countries that are strategic partners, subsequent full participation in regional and subregional integration associations of stock markets, up to global integration in the world stock market as a priority direction for the development of the domestic stock market in the context of stabilization of the national economy.