Chapter-1 Introduction

Chapter-1 Introduction
Chapter-1
1.1 Introduction
Over the years, the financial services in India have undergone revolutionary changes and had become more sophisticated, in response to the varied needs of the economy. The process of financial sector reforms, economic liberalization and globalization of Indian Capital Market had generated and augmented the interest of the investors in equity. But, due to inadequate knowledge of the capital market and lack of professional expertise, the common investors are still hesitant to invest their hard earned money in the corporate securities. The advent of mutual funds has helped in garnering the investible funds of this category of investors in a significant way. As professional experts manage mutual funds, investment in them relieves investors from the emotional stress involved in buying and selling of securities.
Mutual Fund is a topic which is of massive interest not only to researchers all over the world, but also to investors. Mutual funds as a medium-to-long term investment option are preferred as a suitable investment option by investors. Mutual fund is a device for pooling the resources by issuing units to the investors and investing funds in securities in accordance with objectives as disclosed in offer document. Investments in securities are spread across a wide cross-section of industries and sectors and thus the risk is reduced. Diversification reduces the risk because all stocks may not move in the same direction in the same proportion at the same time. Mutual fund issues units to the investors in accordance with quantum of money invested by them. Investors of mutual funds are known as unit holders. The profits or losses are shared by the investors in percentage to their investments. The mutual funds normally come out with a number of schemes with different investment objectives which are launched from time to time. A mutual fund is required to be registered with Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) which regulates securities markets before it can collect funds from the public.. Indian mutual fund industry has two distinct types of sponsors, public-sector and
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private-sector. The number of funds floated by public-sector sponsors is minimal compared to private-sector players. There is a hypothetical assumption that privatesector outperforms public-sector due to several factors such as responsibility, commitment and so on. We focus on testing this hypothesis on the mutual fund industry. Although many studies document the investment performance of mutual funds irrespective of whether they are public-sector sponsored or private-sector sponsored, researchers do not investigate the influence of portfolio characteristics and the variable effect of diversification on mutual fund performance. Unit Trust of India was the first mutual fund set up in India in the year 1963. In early 1990s, Government allowed public sector banks and institutions to set up mutual funds. In the year 1992, Securities and exchange Board of India (SEBI) Act was passed. The objectives of SEBI are - to protect the interest of investors in securities and to promote the development of and to regulate the securities market. As far as mutual funds are concerned, SEBI formulates policies and regulates the mutual funds to protect the interest of the investors. SEBI notified regulations for the mutual funds in 1993. Thereafter, mutual funds sponsored by private sector entities were allowed to enter the capital market. The regulations were fully revised in 1996 and have been amended thereafter from time to time. SEBI has also issued guidelines to the mutual funds from time to time to protect the interests of investors. All mutual funds whether promoted by public sector or private sector entities including those promoted by foreign entities are governed by the same set of Regulations. A mutual fund is set up in the form of a trust, which has sponsor, trustees, asset Management Company (AMC) and custodian. The trust is established by a sponsor or more than one sponsor who is like promoter of a company. The trustees of the mutual fund hold its property for the benefit of the unit holders. Asset Management Company (AMC) approved by SEBI manages the funds by ma king investments in various types of securities. Custodian, who is registered with SEBI, holds the securities of various schemes of the fund in its custody. The trustees are vested with the general power of superintendence and direction over AMC. They monitor the performance and compliance of SEBI Regulations by the mutual fund. SEBI Regulations require that at
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least two thirds of the directors of trustee company or board of trustees must be independent i.e. they should not be associated with the sponsors. Also, 50% of the directors of AMC must be independent. All mutual funds are required to be registered with SEBI before they launch any scheme.1
1.2 Statement of Problems:
India has become the worlds fourth largest economy besides U.S.A., China, and Japan. Although the Indian capital market witnessed some significant changes during the eighties, both the primary and the secondary segments continued to suffer from some serious deficiencies. Many unhealthy practices prevailed in the primary market to attract retail investors. High pricing of new issues, difficulties in analyzing the prospects of a company, under pricing of shares in the market after listing have discouraged and aroused hesitation among many investors to enter into the stock market. The secondary market had become highly volatile and technical for small investors. Markets for equity shares, real estate, derivatives and other assets have become highly dynamic. Unprecedented global and national events have brought in substantial changes in the securities market. Capital market, being the major supplier of corporate finance, ought to grow in a healthy manner to pump in more and more money. Investment in corporate securities demands investors to understand the complexities of market, to keep track of market movements and to make scientific investment decisions. The growing popularity of mutual funds prove that it is an ideal investment vehicle for small investors having limited information and knowledge to enter the todays complex and modern capital market. The domestic mutual fund industry has grown by 50 percent particularly through Systematic Investment Plan (SIP) from retail participants. But, there is still a long way to go as only five percent of the households are investing in mutual fund schemes. Liberalization of economic policies, metamorphic changes in the Indian Financial System, brought out increase in the share of household savings, changes in investment attitude and preferences The household savings rate is increasing and is expected to accelerate with the reinforcement of benign demographic dynamics, financial sector liberalization and increasing human development index. As the household sectors share in financial
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Naila Iqbal through Articles.Get ACoder.com 2008-08-03.
assets is expected to go much higher in the countrys savings, it is of utmost importance to show a right path to individual investors. With an emphasis on increase in domestic savings and improvement in deployment of investible funds into the market, the need and scope for mutual fund operations have increased and is expected to increase tremendously in future. Mutual funds seek to serve those individuals, who have the inclination to invest but lack the background, expertise and sufficient resources to diversify their investment among various sectors. Even though mutual fund industry is growing, still there is a long way to
* Srinivasan G (2007), Household, corporate savings seen rising on income growth, The Hindu Business Line: Economy, May 27, 2007. p 6.
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go. The penetration level in rural areas is not very high. The funds have grown more because of the changing demographic profile. More number of investors, particularly youth, whose disposable income has gone up, opt mutual fund to enter securities market indirectly. Indian investors have little information to take prudent investment decisions. Such information drought is the breeding ground for misguidance and the investor is likely to be inspired by the agents to opt for a particular scheme without an in-depth analysis. The information drought regarding performance of mutual funds in India is perhaps a major cause for the Indian mutual fund industry for not attaining the status of their counterparts in U.S.A., U.K. and other developed countries. An average investor obtains investment advice and practical information from investment outlets, such as business magazines and web sites. However, the information on performance of mutual funds over a period of time is scantily available for all the investors. The present work is an attempt to fill up the lacuna and help investors to make meaningful investments. Therefore, the present study attempts to bring out the performance of mutual fund industry in India.
2. The mutual fund industry invest in the stock market which is quite volatile due to the FIIs entry and exit in the market and small investors are loosing huge fund in short run if the volatility continues. 3. 4. 5. Mutual fund industry is a part and parcel of the economy, thus moves with the movement in the Indian economy. A monopoly organization UTI had to be bailed out five times in five years by the government of India Fall of UTI led to the destruction of investors faith, trust and confidence.
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Political interference, inefficiency and corruptibility of management of mutual funds. Depression in the stock market causes decline in the mutual fund industry. Many Mutual funds are selling themselves out and going out of mutual fund business. Foreign players are reconsidering their plans and, some of them are opting out of business.
10. The investment pattern of Mutual fund Industry has changed in the recent past. Debt instruments, government securities have become more important investment avenue than equity now. 11. In recent past inspite of new players entering the market mergers and acquisition took place. 12. A prolonged bearish phase in the equity market and a continued series of stock market scams, killed investor interest in the equities and units. 13. The Indian Mutual funds Industry has not performed well in gaining the small investor confidence and trust by offering better products, better processes and better services. 1.3 1. 2. Emerging Issues: Mutual funds came in to existence to serve the needs of households, but rather in practice, Mutual funds are heavily used by corporations and institutional investors. Mutual funds are still confined to urban India. These instruments are still unknown to the investors of rural areas. These people do not have faith in mutual fund as an investment avenue. 3. 4. The Mutual funds Industry in India is very small in comparison with that of many developed and other countries. Most of the savings of the people in India are in the form of bank deposits but in developed countries large proportion of savings are in Mutual funds. Thus, in India mutual fund could not make the place as far as the investment is concerned. 5. The Mutual funds Industry was initiated in 1964 to win the faith of small investor but still could not become successful in achieving its objective.
1.4 Review of the Literature: The subject matter of Capital Market in its multifacism spheres has been the thought provoking subject of topical interest. In the following paragraphs, the researcher has made a comprehensive review of literature on the wide-ranging studies on the variegated aspects of Indian capital market. The notable among them are: Books Verma J.C. (1992) in his book on mutual funds covers the conceptual and regulatory aspects of the Indian mutual funds with some informational data and guidelines to the investors in selection of mutual funds.2 Seema Vaid, (1994), study covers conceptual and the regulatory framework, review of the growth of mutual funds and primary information about mutual fund schemes. 3 Jayadev M. (1995) In his book covers all the Indian public sector mutual funds and their schemes launched between September 1986 and march 1994.He has analyzed the investment policies with respect to investment pattern and examine the operations of mutual funds .He has also evaluated the performance of mutual fund schemes in terms of returns and risks. His study is limited to the analysis of public sector mutual funds only.4 Turan and Bodla (2001) examined the growth of mutual funds in India in terms of resource mobilization, promotion of various types of schemes and NAV based risk and return. The study reveals that mutual fund industry has registered a sharp rise in term of resource mobilization during the period 1990-1991 to 1997- 1998.5 Chander (2002) examined the risk-return of Mutual Funds with a view to investigate Mutual Funds performance in terms of theoretical performance evaluation model
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Verma J.C. 1992 Mutual Funds And Investment Portfolio ,New Delhi Bharat Law House Pvt Ltd. Seema Vaid,1994 Mutual Fund Operation In India, Varanasi: Rishi Publications. Jayadev M 1995,Investment policy and performance of mutual fund,
Turan and Bodla 2001, Performance Appraisal of Mutual funds First Edition Excel Books Publications, New Delhi.
developed by sharpe, Treynor and Jenson. In this study he also made a comprehensive decomposition of portfolio performance to attribute it to various activities of fund manager such as stock selectivity, market timing risk bearing and diversification. In addition the author also examinesthe contemporary portfolio management, portfolio performance evaluation and investor service and disclosure practices.6 Shashi, Nisha and Neeta (2004) has describe about the concept and types of mutual fund. He has covered in his book various problems faced by this industry and also analyses the performance of mutual fund. The performance of mutual fund in 1995-96 and 1996-97 had not been encouraging. However ,the position was improved n 1997-98 and the gross mobilization of resources by all mutual fund schemes during this year was around Rs 13000 cores which was for the first time higher than the resource mobilized by the primary market .Private sector mutual funds accounted for 89.2 percent of the total resource mobilization during April-December 2001,compared to 80 percent in the previous year .The public sector mutual funds accounted for 7.1 percent while UTI accounted for 3.7 percent during this period.7 Bhole (2006), has presented in his book the working of UTI and other mutual funds in India .he has compared the working of mutual funds in India to those of MFs in some other countries .It is found in spite of overall growth of MFs in India over the last 40 years, the industry is very small compared to the similar industry in many countries in the world. He has suggested in order judging the performance of mutual fund schemes the most popular ranking is by CRISIL, Value Research India, and Credence Analytics. The stagnation in the mutual fund industry is due to the continued stock market scams, fall of UTI and the unattractive returns on investment in MFs schemes.8 Tripathy (2007), in her book, Mutual funds in India emerging issues highlighted the basic concepts of mutual funds ,operational polices ,practices .,investment in securities, some aspect of portfolio management, selection, mutual fund marketing and detailed
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Chander, R. 2002 Performance Appraisals Of M utual Funds In India. New Dehli Excel Books.
Gupta Shashi K, Aggarwal Nisha and Gupta Neeta 2004,Financial Institutions And Markets New Delhi , kalyani Publishers,p-p18.1-18.47
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Bhole LM 2006,Financial Institution And Markets New Delhi ,McGraw Hill Publishing Company Limited.p-p12.1-12.43
analysis of the latest development in the mutual fund industry. Apart from this the author also emphasize on the fundamentals of research with details of statistical tools required for analysis in research working discuss in detail about the current status of development and future prospects of mutual fund industry in India.9 Articles Shah Ajay and Thomas Susan (1994) studied the performance evaluation of 11 mutual fund schemes on the basis of market price data. The weekly returns were computed for these schemes since their commencement to April 1994. Jensen and Sharpe measures were used to evaluate the superior performance of the schemes. They concluded that except UGS 2000 of UTI, none of the schemes earned superior returns than the market in general. The risk of these schemes is very high and funds might be inadequately diversified,10 Jaideep and Majumdar(1994), evaluated the performance of five growth oriented schemes for the period February 1991 TO August1993.They have employed the CAPM and Jensen measure to evaluate the performance. They have also evaluated the boom period performance of the scheme during the first quarter of 1992 by employing Jensen (adjusted) model. They conclude that the selected mutual fund schemes have not offered superior returns during the study period than the market in general. However, they conclude that in the boom period the funds performed well11. Jaydev (1996) in his paper has made an attempt to evaluate the performance of two growth oriented mutual funds (Master gain and Magnum Express) on the basis of monthly returns compared to benchmark returns. For this purpose, risk adjusted performance measures suggested by Jenson, Treynor and Sharpe are employed. It is found that, Master gain has performed better according to Jenson and Treynor measures and on the basis of Sharpe ratio. Its performance is not up to the benchmark.
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Tripathy N.P.(2007) Mutual Funds In India Emerging Issues .New Delhi. Excel Books
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Shah Ajay, Thomas Susan April 1994,performance evaluation of professional portfolio management in India, A paper Prepared By CMIE.
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Jaiddeep Sarkar, Sudipta Majumkar , ,performance evaluation of Mutual Funds In India NMIS Management review , Vol. VI,no.2, Juy-lDecember1994 , pp64-78
The performance of Magnum Express is poor on the basis of all these three measures. However, Magnum Express is well diversified and has reduced. its unique risk where as Master gain did not. These two funds are found to be poor in earning better returns either adopting marketing or in selecting under priced securities. It can be concluded that, the two growth oriented funds have not performed better in terms of total risk and the funds are not offering advantages of diversification and professionalism to the investors.12 Panigrati (1996) examines the impact of capital market refiorms on Mutual Funds. He found that there has been shift in focus from individual invwestor to institutional investors .The investible resourses of MUTUAL fund have increased manifold mainly due to economic reforms and liberalization.13 Syama (1998) conducted a survey to get an insight into the mutual fund Operations of private institutions with special reference to Kothari Pioneer. The survey revealed that awareness about Mutual Fund concept was poor during that time in small cities like Visakhapatnam. Agents play a vital role in spreading the Mutual Fund culture; open-end schemes were much preferred then; age andincome are the two important determinants in the selection of the fund/scheme; brand image and return are the prime considerations while investing in anyMutual Fund.14 Sharma Sushil Kumar (2000) reveals in his work that the mutual fund mobilizes its funds from the saving market and act as complementary to banking. The emergence of financial institution as dominating players in the Indian financial market are due to the growth of mutual fund .The mutual fund mobilized is 22710.73 crores without adjustment of repurchase /redemption during the financial year 88-89 as against Rs15171 crores during 1998. Mutual fund has also contributed in financing incorporate
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Jaydev M., Mutual Fund Performance: An Analysis of Monthly Returns, Finance India, Vol. X No. 1, March 1996, Pages 73
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Panigrati, Mutualfunds: Growth Performance And Prospects.Economic And Political Weekly,Vol. 31 (12)1996, pp765-775.
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Syama Sundar, P.V., 1998, Growth Prospects of Mutual Funds and Investor perception with special reference to Kothari Pioneer Mutual Fund, Project Report, Sri Srinivas Vidya Parishad, Andhra University, Visakhapatnam
sector. The share of mutual fund in financing the resource gap of the corporate sector has become more than doubled between 88-89 to 91-92 and from 16.72 percent to 36.28 %. Direct financing by mutual fund to the corporate sector has increased after the SEBI guidelines to the corporate sector to reserve 20%of public issues for Indian 15 Gupta Amitabh (2001) evaluated the performance of selected mutual fund schemes and also tested the market timing abilities of mutual fund managers during the period 94 to 99. He has also examined in his study the growth of mutual fund since 87 to 89. Two type of bench mark portfolio are used (a) a market index (b) fundex. The result of sample of 73 mutual fund schemes indicate that 38 (52%) schemes earned higher return in comparison to the market return while remaining 35 schemes 48%) generated lower return than that of market. It is also found that any unique risk of the sample scheme was 2.73 (per week) while the average diversification came to 34.3%. This implies that the sample is not adequately diversified. The result of his study provides no evidence for the market timing of abilities of mutual fund managers.16 Mishra, and Mahmud (2002) measured mutual fund performance using lower partial moment. In this paper, measures of evaluating portfolio performance based on lower partial moment is developed Risk from the lower partial moment is measured by taking into account only those states in which return is below a pre-specified target rate like risk-free rate 17 Dalal 2003, the government has encouraged Indian retail investors to invest through mutual fund as the professional fund managers will keep their money safer. Instead of becoming a common mans vehicle, the SEBI has recently discovered that mutual funds too have turned in to a vehicle for high net worth individuals and companies, who take the advantage of tax shelter that is provided by the government to attract the retail
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Gupta Amitabh Mutual funds in India :a study of investment ,volxv,no.2,june 2001,pp631-637

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Banikanta Mishra, Mahmud Rahman , 2002, Measuring mutual fund performance using lower partial Moment, Global Business Trends, Contemporary Readings, 2001 edition.
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investors in the mutual fund industry. He found that failure to attract individual investor could affect the survival of several funds.18 Sengupta (2003) developed a set of non paramatic tests which includes the cover null method and the stockhastic dominance criteria for evaluating the performance of Mutual Fund portfolios. On the basis of empirical results it is evident that some group of funds based on new technology tend to out perform others and in most cases the investor shows a preference for skewness, thumphasizing on the mean, variance relationship.Technology funds tends to exhibit second order stochastic dominance over the income and growth funds. This shows some new features of the mean variance efficiency frontier.19 Mohanan {2006} has explained in his work that the Indian mutual fund industry is one of the fastest growing sectors in the Indian capital and financial markets. The mutual fund industry in India has seen dramatic improvements in quantity as well as quality of product and service offerings in recent years. Mutual funds assets under management grew by 96% between the end of 1997 and June 2003 and as a result it rose from 8% of GDP to 15%. The industry has grown in size and manages total assets of more than $30351 million. Of the various sectors, the private sector accounts for nearly 91% of the resources mobilized showing their overwhelming dominance in the market. Individuals constitute 98.04% of the total number of investors and contribute US $12062 million, which is 55.16% of the net assets under management. .Panwar and Madhumathi (2006) has in their study used sample of public-sector sponsored & private-sector sponsored mutual funds of varied net assets to investigate the differences in characteristics of assets held, portfolio diversification, and variable effects of diversification on investment performance for the period May, 2002 to May, 2005. The study found that public-sector sponsored funds do not differ significantly from private-sector sponsored funds in terms of mean returns%. However, there is a significant difference between public-sector sponsored mutual funds and private-sector
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Dalal Sucheta, cleaning up the mutual fund industry Banking Finance , sep.2003,pp24-25
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Sengupta, Effi ciency Test for Mutual Funds Portfolio. Applied Financial Economics, Vol. 13 (12),pp 849-856.
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sponsored mutual funds in terms of average standard deviation, average variance and average coefficient of variation (COV). The study also found that there is a statistical difference between sponsorship classes in terms of e SDAR (excess standard deviation adjusted returns) as a performance measure. When residual variance (RV) is used as the measure of mutual fund portfolio diversification characteristic, there is a statistical difference between public-sector sponsored mutual funds and private-sector sponsored mutual funds for the study period. The model built on testing the impact of diversification on fund performance and found a statistical difference among sponsorship classes when residual variance is used as a measure of portfolio diversification and excess standard deviation adjusted returns as a performance measure. RV, however, has a direct impact on Sharpe fund performance measure.20 Bodla and Sunita, (2007) examined the growth of Indian mutual fund industry in terms of increase in number of schemes and funds mobilized. The analysis has been carried across nature, type and sector of the schemes. The result shows that the total schemes have grown to above 1200 and the total purchases during 2006 crossed Rs. 3.5 lakh crores. The private sector funds and joint ventures have outperformed the public sector funds.21 Bhaskara Rao, V.K.( 2007) has described that an economic development of the country to a large extent depend upon the growth of the capital market. Capital market growth depends upon the savings by the community. In India a common investor has a lack of knowledge and expertise in capital market. In this context mutual fund have emerged as an important segment in the Indian financial sector to operate which would ensure a reasonable capital appreciation to the investors. The number of mutual funds from one in1964 is increased to 30 players in May 2005(offering 460 schemes). The growth of mutual funds in the Indian capital market is increasing rapidly at the rate of 9%for the last five years. He revealed that mutual fund consist 1/10th of total bank deposit. In USA
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Panwar Sharad and Madhumathi R. February 2006, Characteristics and Performance Evaluation of Selected Mutual Funds in India" www.http://ssrn.com
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Bodla, B.S. and Sunita (2007), Emerging Trends of Mutual Funds in India: A Study Across Category and Type of schemes A paper accepted for publication in a journal published by Department of Management, Vaishnov Devi University, Jammu.
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the corpus of mutual fund is three times that of bank deposit. In India mutual funds account only 6%of GDP. Thus there is a large scope of mutual fund industry. Things are changing as there is a shift from saving culture to investment culture. Tax exemptions and increasing bank rates have pushed the focus of investors on mutual fund .Entry of public and private sector has widened the area of competition and also choice among the investors. The share of UTI was 57%in 2001 and that of private sector was 38%. Now the situation started reversing .The share of private sector rose to 79%. He found the bright future outlook for the mutual fund. He suggested mutual funds should give priority to the investors interest and public sector mutual funds should initiate steps to compete with the private sector to the mutual funds. The industry should expand the market share in rural areas and also have to play significant role in increasing equity cult among the investors.22 Rustagi Hemant (2007) in his study has analyzed some of the opportunities as well as challenges in the Indian mutual fund industry .He found that most of the traditional avenues are providing much lower returns than before, more and more investors will have to look for instruments like MFs that have the potential to beat inflation on a consistent basis. Besides this tax efficiency of the instrument ,diverse asset classes to invest in , entry of new players , opening of the pension sector are the various opportunities available to the investors in the Mutual Fund industry. Moreover industry is likely to face some of the challenges like spreading the Mutual fund cult, product differentiation and client segmentation, consistency in performance, tapping the rural market.23 Pathik and Vijay (June 2007)." An overview of Mutual Funds in India has thrown light on the concept, performance, structure and recent trends in mutual fund. The most important trend in the mutual fund industry is the aggressive expansion of the foreign owned mutual fund companies and the decline of the companies floated by nationalized
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Dr. Bhaskara Rao V.K. Role of mutual funds in the capital market , banking finance ,volxx,no.3march 2003,p.p5-8
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Rustagi` Hemant January 2007 Indian Mutual Fund Industry :Opportunities And Challenges, Charted Financial Analyst Vol xiii p-p31-32
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banks and smaller private sector players. The industry is also having a profound impact on financial markets Funds have shifted their focus to the recession free sectors like pharmaceuticals, FMCG and technology sector. Funds performances are improving. Funds collection, which averaged at less than Rs100bn per annum over five-year period spanning 1993-98 doubled to Rs210bn in 1998-99. In the current year mobilization till now have exceeded Rs300bn. Total collection for the current financial year ending March 2000 is expected to reach Rs450bn. Fund are selected on quantitative parameters like volatility, FAMA Model, risk adjusted returns, and rolling return coupled with a qualitative analysis of fund performance and investment styles through regular interactions / due diligence processes with fund managers. They found that the Fund are selected on quantitative parameters like volatility, FAMA Model, risk adjusted returns, and rolling return coupled with a qualitative analysis of fund performance and investment styles through regular interactions / due diligence processes with fund managers.24 Agarwal (2007) provides an overview of mutual fund activity in emerging markets. It describes their size and asset allocation. This paper analyzes the Indian Mutual Fund Industry pricing mechanism with empirical studies on its valuation. It also analyzes data at both the fund-manager and fund-investor levels.25 Gera (2008) in Factors affecting Mutual funds in India There are certain criteria on the basis of which the performance of a mutual fund can be assessed such as NAV, portfolio turnover, risk and return as well as various expense ratios like Sharpe ratio, Beta Ratio, etc. This article also aims to give an insight on the futuristic outlook of the Mutual Funds in India. New Funds are coming in the market such as Gold Funds, Real Estate Funds etc. The various new trends in the field are explored to understand diversified growth and opportunities that are prevalent and that could be the probable future of Mutual Funds.26
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Agrawal, D. (2007) Measuring Performance of Indian Mutual Funds. Prabhandan Tanikniqui, 1, 1: 4352.
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Gera, (2008) Macro-Economic & Basis for Evaluating Mutual fund Performance ,Project report, PGDM 2006-2008 Batch , Alliance Business School , Bangalore .
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Parvinder (2008) this study has been undertaken to evaluate the performance of the Indian Mutual Funds vis-- vis the Indian stock market. For the purpose of this study, 21 open ended equity based growth mutual funds were selected as the sample. The data, which is the weekly NAVs of the funds and the closing of the BSE Sensex, were collected for a period of 5 years starting 19/03/2004 to 13/02/2009 Different statistical tools were used on the data obtained to get the average returns, absolute returns, standard deviation, Fund Beta, R-squared value, residual value, Relative Performance Index were calculated. These variables of the funds were compared with the same variables of the market to assess how the different funds have performed against the market All the mutual funds gave similar returns with respect to the market expect for certain time period which was during the late 2005 and early 2006. There is a positive correlation with the absolute returns of the market and the mutual funds over the period of time The study showed that the standard deviation of the funds were high during the boom period in comparison with the market and were comparatively lower when the recessionary trend started. The fund betas also show that there is significant correlation between the fund returns and the market returns. Of the 21 of the 21 funds considered for this study, 7 funds had RPI less than 0.7, 3 funds had RPI of almost 1 and 11 funds had RPI of more than 1.27 A case study of ethics and mutual funds mismanagement at Putnam examines the failure of top management at Putnam .There were six employees ,including two portfolio managers who were repeatedly engaged in market timing activities from 1998 to 2003,generated over a million dollars in personal profits. The study found that CEO and key senior executives had factual knowledge of the abuses but the management failed to stop the abuses or to discipline those involved until faced with charges by Government regulators .top management thus breached the ethical duties to its shareholders and inflicted serious damage to the organization. The end result of top mgt
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Parvinder, Rounakand Sagar (Dec 2008), Performance Evaluation of Indian Mutual Funds, ARP Report, MBA, S P Jain Center of Management, Dubai UAE / Singapore.
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was significant outflow of assets from Putnams funds, payments of penalties and loss of trust among investors. The author raised concern about the ethical issues surrounding mutual fund trading practices and the impact that the top management can have on the ethical behavior of the employees. 28 Swaroop (2009) in the backdrop of liberalization and private participation in the Indian mutual fund industry, the challenge to survive and retain investor confidence has been a prime are of concern for fund managers. For small investors who do not have the time or the expertise to take direct investment decision in equities successfully, the alternative is to invest in mutual funds. The performance of the mutual fund products become more complex in context of accommodating both return and risk measurements while giving due importance to investment objectives. In this paper, an attempt has been made to study the performance of selected schemes of mutual funds based on risk-return relationship models and measures. A total of 23 schemes offered by six private sector mutual funds and three public sector mutual funds have been studied over the time period April 1996 to March 2009 (13 years). The analysis has been made on the basis of mean return, beta risk, coefficient of determination, Sharpe ratio, Treynor ratio and Jensen Alpha. The overall analysis finds Franklin Templeton and UTI being the best performers and Birla SunLife, HDFC and LIC mutual funds showing poor below-average performance when measured against the risk-return relationship models.29 Harilal and Morusu (2010) have thrown light on the performance and the SEBI regulation on the functioning of Mutual Fund industry. He described that Mutual Funds are the significant source of investment in both govt. and corporate securities .Presently numerous private and foreign companies exist in mutual fund industry. He has define the meaning of NAV, Average annual return, Expenses and TERS, Management fees,
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Kelly, (2009) A case study of ethics and mutual fund mismanagement at Putnam. ethics and behavior, vol 19 (1), pp25-33
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Debasish sathya swaroop (2009 ), Investigating Performance Of Equity Based Mutual Fund schemes in Indian senerio ,. KCA Journal Of BusinessnManagemen.t, VOL. 2, Issue 2, Balasore,Orissa, India
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non management expenses, investors fees and expenses, Brokerage and commission. Comparison is also done between Mutual Fund and other investments.30 Journal Early studies on mutual funds included the several works of Jensen (1968) Sharpe (1966) and Treynor (1965)31 who used the capital asset pricing model to compare riskadjusted returns of funds with that of a benchmark market portfolio. The findings of Sharpe and Jensen demonstrated that mutual funds under perform market indexes and suggest that the returns were not sufficient to compensate investors for the diverse mutual fund charge Sharpe (1966) developed a composite measure to consider return and risk .Based on this he evaluated the performance of 34 open ended Mutual Fund schemes during the period 1944-63. He observed that 11 funds have outperformed the benchmark. Based on this evidence he concluded that average mutual fund performance was inferior to an investment in stock market. An analysis of relationship between fund performance and its expense ratio indicated that good performance was associated with low expense ratio. On the other hand only allow relationship was discovered between size and performance32 Jensen (1968) developed a composite portfolio evaluation technique that considered return adjusted for risk difference and used it for evaluating 115 open ended mutual fund schemes during the period 1945-66. For the full period Jensen examined net expenses and gross expenses. The analysis of net return indicated that 89 funds have above return adjusted for risk while 76 experienced abnormally poor return. On the
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R. Harilal, Morusu Siva Sanbkar, Mutual Fund Business In India, Banking Finance, Vol. xxiii, No.1, January 2010,p 5-10.
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Treynor, J. L. (1965). How to Rate Management of Investment Funds? Harvard Business Review, 43, 1: 63-75..
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Sharpe, W. F. (1966), Mutual Fund Performance, The Journal of Business, 30, 1: 119-138
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basis of this analysis Jensen concluded that for the sample of 115 mutual funds were not able to forecast security prices well enough to recover expenses and fees 33 Gupta & Sehgal (1998) tried to find out the investment performance of 80 schemes managed by 25 mutual funds, 15 in private sector and 10 in public sector for the time period of June 1992-1996. The study has examined the performance in terms of fund diversification and consistency of performance. The paper concludes that mutual fund industrys portfolio diversification has performed well. But it supported the consistency of performance.34 Chakarabarti and Rungta (2000) stressed the importance of brand effect in determining the competitive position of the AMCs. Their study reveals that brand image factor, though cannot be easily captured by computable performance measures, influences the investors perception and hence his Fund/scheme selection.35 Singh and Vanita (2002) has I investigated the Mutual Fund investors perception and preferences .Their study is based on a survey of 150 respondents in Delhi and for this purpose a structured questionnaire was designed to collect the primary data. The survey reported that investors in general, do not perceive the risk inherent in mutual find investment and use it primarily as a tax saving instrument. Among various financial instruments available to the investors. Mutual funds are ranked below NSCs. PPF and LIC policies. However among the various mutual funds and schemes available for investment, private mutual funds, open end schemes and balanced funds are most preferred by the investors. The study also provides useful suggestions to various market players and investors.36
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Jensen, M. C. (1968). The Performance of Mutual Funds: 1945-64. The Journal of Finance, 23, 2: 389416
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Gupta O.P. and Sehgal Sanjay (1996), Investment Performance of Mutual Funds: The Indian Experience, ICFAI Journal of Applied Finance, Vol. No 2, April, pp.25-36. 35 Anjan Chakrabarti and Harsh Rungta, 2000, Mutual Funds Industry in India: An in depth look into the problems of credibility, Risk and Brand, The ICFAI Journal of Applied Finance, Vol.6, No.2, April, 27-45.
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Singh Y.P and Vanita, September 2002,Mutual Fund Perception And Preferences A Survey, T he Indian Journal Of Commerce,Vol.55,No.3,p-p9-18
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Sondhi H J and Jain P K (2005) has elaborated that Mutual funds are popular financial intermediaries and manage disposable income of the investors so as to bring them the benefits of equity investment. History of mutual funds management in India is rather new, vis--vis, mutual funds in USA or UK. Yet, the mutual fund industry in India has caught the attention of millions of investors with diverse interests around the basic principles of investments viz., safety, liquidity and returns. The paper examines the rates of returns generated by equity mutual funds, vis--vis, 364 days T-bills and the Bombay Stock Exchange-100 (BSE-100) National Index during the period 1993-2002. Rate of return on 364 days T-bill is the surrogate measure for risk-free return and the BSE-100 National Index has been chosen as proxy for market portfolio in their analysis. Equity mutual funds predominantly invest in company equities, and hence, are risky investments. While choosing to invest in equity mutual funds, the investors expect not only risk premium but also better returns than the market portfolio. Risk premium refers to the returns earned by the investment in excess of risk-free returns. Thus, the investors expect equity mutual funds to earn better returns than the risk-free returns as also the market returns. A sample of 36 equity mutual funds has been drawn from 21 asset management companies belonging to private and public sectors.. The sample has been classified into two groups based on ownership pattern, namely, Private Sector Company sponsored equity mutual funds (19) and public sector undertaking sponsored equity mutual funds (17).37 Rao and Satya (2006) invested the relationship between mutual fund attributes and performance to find out Leaders and laggards. . Funds in the same investment objective category are classified into two portfolios according to mutual fund attributes, including load/no load, size, turnover, expenses, and past performance. In the long run analysis, the funds have been ranked on the risk adjusted return basis by using Sharpe ratio. One year return for a fund is computed by taking the average of the weekly returns of the fund for 52 weeks It was observed that quarterly performance can not be an indicator of past performance .Also, in the long run , mutual funds performance may be
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H J Sondhi and P K Jain July 2005, Financial Management of Private and Public Equity Mutual Funds in India: An Analysis of Profitability, The Icfai Journal Of Applied Finance.14-27
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more or less than that of short run. This may because of the fluctuations in performance of portfolio management by respective fund managers Leaders are top 10 performers and laggards are Bottom 10performers. They found that laggards will become leaders and vice versa during the long run. Several experts suggested different ways to rank the mutual funds .It can be said that performance is always related with return and risk. This study reveals about importance of time factor. The longer the investment is the lesser on return. It was also found that there is a nominal positive correlation between Sharpe measure and NAV. It is suggested that Net Asset Value Analysis NAV can be utilized for long term investors, Hence , it was concluded that performance in the short run may not give the same results in the long run.38 Anand and Murugaiah (2006) examined the components and sources of investment performance in order to attribute it to specific activities of Indian fund managers. They also attempted to identify a part of observed return which is due to the ability to pick up the best securities at given level of risk. For this purpose, Fama's methodology is adopted here. The study covers the period between April 1999 and March 2003 and evaluates the performance of mutual funds based on 113 selected schemes having exposure more than 90percent of corpus to equity stocks of 25 fund houses. The empirical results reported reveal the fact that the mutual funds were not able to compensate the investors for the additional risk that they have taken by investing in the mutual funds. The study concludes that the influence of market factor was more severe during negative performance of the funds while the impact selectivity skills of fund managers was more than the other factors on the fund performance in times of generating positive return by the funds. It can also be observed from the study that selectivity, expected market risk and market return factors have shown closer correlation with the fund return.39 Sidana and Acharya (2007) attempted to classify hundred mutual funds employing cluster analysis and using a host of criteria like the I year total return, 2 year annualized
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Prasada Rao S.S. And Satya Sekhar G.V. April-June 2006,Leaders vs. Laggards An Appraisal Of Select Mutual Funds The Indian Journal of Commerce Vol.59,No.2.p-p84-93
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Anand, S. and Murugaiah, V. (2006). Analysis of Components of Investment Performance - An Empirical Study of Mutual Funds in India. 10th Indian Institute of Capital Markets Conference. ICFAI: Hyderabad.
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return, 3 year annualized return, 5 year annualized return, alpha, beta, R-squared, Sharpes ratio, mean and standard deviation etc. The data is obtained from Value search online. We do find evidences of inconsistencies between the investment style / objective classification and the return obtained by the fund.40 Dr. Venugopal and Prof. Subramanyam (2007) have measured and analyzed the investment performance of sample mutual fund schemes and also critically evaluated the working of various mutual fund schemes to identify the hurdles in their smooth functioning .For this purpose sample schemes are chosen from well known and established mutual fund companies. An analysis of mutual fund performance suggests that the industrys scorecard looks impressive, especially, in case of equity oriented mutual funds. Debt funds, however have not been able to repeat their performance as the era of falling interest rates comes down to and end .It was found that almost all the sample funds NAV had a negative impact till 2003 and 2004 But after that the NAVs are all gone up to a large extent, the basic reason behind this is good image of the Indian capital market .Some of the sample funds NAV stood as high as Reliance Growth Fund at Rs 227.45 , Franklin India Prima Fund at Rs 201.53, HDFC Equity fund at Rs 130.82 Birla MNC Fund at Rs 123.18 as on March 2006 and also Industries AUM have valued from Rs 101565 cr. in January 2000 to Rs 221642 Cr. as on 31st march 2006.41 Sharan (2007) highlighted the SEBI regulations 1993, several policies which were taken to reform the functioning of Mutual funds in India and also analyses their impact .SEBI regulations 1993 were revised in December 1996 in which more responsibility of the trustee was increased. The minimum net worth of the AMC was raised to Rs 100 million and minimum corpus amount limit for open ended and close ended schemes was withdrawn. Further various Regulatory measures were taken in 2000, 2001 and 2002 regarding advertisement code of conduct, records of all decision, uniform method was evolved to calculate the sale and repurchase price of the units respectively. Investment policy was also liberalized in the fiscal year 1998-99.All these reforms had positive
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Sidana Gajendra and Acharya Debashis, June 2007, Classifying Mutual Funds In India: some Results From Clustering , Indian Journal Of Economics And Business.
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Dr. Venugopal And Prof. Subramanyam P.G October 2007 Is Diversified Equity Oriented Mutual Fund Schemes in India Risky ?A study, Banking Finance Vol xx No.10 p-p10-12
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impact in the functioning of Mutual fund industry. The number of registered funds was 21 other than UTI in 1994which was rose to 40 by the end of march 2007 , there was also fast growth in AUM from Rs905.87 billion at the end of march 2001 to Rs 3263.88 billion at the end of march 2007. It was concluded that open-ended schemes and income/ debt schemes proved more attractive to the investors and the positive impact of reform was also evident in fast growing net asset under management. In this case too, the private sector companies fared far well.42 Swaminathan and Ananth (2011) have made an attempt to understand the relationship exist between the mutual fund investment and equity market return in India.for their study they have analysed the past 10 years data of trends in mutual fund flows in the market with approprite statistical tools to prove the impact of of Mutual Fund Investments in Indian Equity Market. It is found that there is an impact of mutual fund flow in the Indian equity markets NSE and BSE. Because of the amount involved in the equity market the low impact amount to large sum of money. It is suggested as any investor is interested in his return, the investor may monitor the equity market based on the analysis done and fine tune his investment43. Dissertations Fazlul (2000) has revealed in his study about the credibility scenario of both the public sector and private sector mutual Funds in India. The work is limited to their performance and no comparison is made between them.44
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Sharan Vyuptakesh October-December 2007 Reforming Mutual Funds In India ,The Indian Journal Of Commerce ,Vol60,No 4.p-p77-86
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Swaminathan.J and Ananth.March 2011, Impact of Mutual Fund Investments In Indian Equity Market. Indian Journal of Commerce & Management Studies, VolII , Issue -2, ISSN 2229-5674.
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Fazlul Kabir Borch 2000 Mutual Funds In India :Their Credibility And Profitability, Dissertation, MFC, AMU, Aligarh
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Kashif (2002) reveals in his work the problems of UTI regulations and small investors .It also revealed that how UTI faces the liquidity gap .his work is limited to only UTI Mutual Fund.45 Kumar (2003) reveals in his study the different schemes of MF of bank of Baroda their performance and investment policy. This work is limited to the mutual fund of bank of Baroda. It does not make any comparison with other pvt./foreign and public sector MF in India. So the work done is a review of similar studies in the context of Mutual Fund of India reveals that with the exception of a few studies and scanty articles written in newspapers and magazines, very little work has been done in respect of this. 46 Rahman (2005) has revealed in his study the performance of mutual fund industry .According to the study during the year 1999-2000 the net inflow of mutual fund was Rs 1500 crores .The said year witnessed the bad performance of most of the mutual funds. It was found that investors complaints are increasing. Rude behavior of the registrar, delayed redemption, handing out of back dated cheques. Investors also complained about the long time taken by the mutual fund particularly UTI in repurchase of unit. Comparatively private sector is all out to woo investors with better services. A case study of HDFC MUTUAL FUND is also done and found that it has major advantage of professionalism and diversification of funds but is confined to only urban areas.47 Singh (2006) has made an overview of mutual fund industry, regulatory aspect of mutual fund and also has made a case study on HDFC Mutual Fund. She suggested for the growth of mutual fund industry restoring the credibility of the product is required and therefore, transforming the expectations in favor of mutual fund.48
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Kashif Siddiqui 2002, Problems And Prospectus Of UTIs Mutual Fund ,Dissertation , MFC, Dept. Of Commerce,. AMU Aligarh
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2Kumar servant, 2003, A study of commerce, AMU Aligarh,
bank of Baroda Mutual fund, dissertation. M.F.C dept. Of
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Rahman Khan Asim 2005 ,Summer Training Report On Performance Of Mutual Funds In India: A Case Study Of HDFC Mutual Fund Dissertation MFC, Dept Of Commerce
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Singh Meenu 2006 ,Growth Of Mutual Fund In India :A Case Study Of HDFC Bank ,dissertation of MFC .Dept of commerce ,AMU,Aligarh
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Shazia (2007) reveals in her study the growth of Mutual Funds in India .Indian Mutual Fund industry reached Rs 150537 crore in 2004 .It is estimated that by 2010 March end , the total assets of all scheduled commercial banks should be Rs 4090,000 cr. Profitability is calculated on the basis of some ratios. The work is also done on ICICI Mutual Funds Prudential ICICI Asset Management Company is one of the largest asset management companies in the country with asset under management of Rs 23559.6o Cr. There are some problems faced by ICICI Mutual Funds. 49 Lamba (2008) discussed about various Mutual Fund companies in India and also the types of schemes offered by them. He has made a comparative analysis of diversified equity funds. He has also gone through how investors can be helped through financial planning. His study is limited to only comparison of equity oriented schemes.50 Pande (2009) has worked on the fund performance, load structure, fund snapshot, funds average. He found that all equity and debt performance has been changed in every month. The performance of mutual fund suffered qualitatively due to the volatility of market. He concluded that measures should be taken to make the mutual fund key instrument for long term saving. 51 Amanulla (2001) tested the portfolio efficiency of mutual funds of Unit Trust of India (UTI) by employing traditional performance measures such as Jensen, Treynor and Sharpe's methodology. Employing Granger Causality and Co-integration tests, the paper also investigated the performance evaluation of mutual funds. Average weekly net asset values of 16 mutual funds of UTI and two stock market price indices i.e. Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) sensitive index as well as S & P CNX Nifty index for the period June, 1992 to July, 2000 were used in the study. The results from traditional measures provided a mixed evidence of performance evaluation while the evidence from Granger causality suggested the existence of uni-directional causality in BSE
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Shazia Iqbal 2007, Profitability of Mutual Funds in India: a Case Study of ICICI Bank Dissertation M.F.C., Dept. Of Commerce AMU Aligarh
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Lamba Naveen 2008,Summer Training On Mutual Fund, Dissertation MFC, Dept Of Commerce, AMU.
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Pande Prasenjit 2009 ,Dessert at Lon Report On Mutual Fund ,Dissertation MFC, IMIS
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sensitive index and bi-directional causality in Nifty index. The market index and mutual funds were also found to be co-integrated, indicating a long-run relationship. Websites Rajeswar, Moorthy and Nilayam ( 2001 ) conducted a survey among 350 Mutual Fund Investors in 10 Urban and Semi Urban centers to study the factors influencing the fund/scheme selection behavior of Retail Investors. The survey reveals that the most preferred investment vehicle is Bank Deposits, with MFs ranking 4th in the order among 8 choices (Annex Table 4). Growth schemes are ranked first, followed by Income Schemes and Balanced Schemes (Annex Table 5). Based on the duration of operation of schemes, the 1st preference is for open-ended schemes (84.57%) and only 15.43% of the respondents favor close-ended schemes. The investors look for safety first in MF products, followed by good returns, Tax Benefits, liquidity and capital appreciation (Annex Table 6 8.86% have no preference. The findings regarding influential fund selection factor reveals that the investor considers all the 10 variables as important in his selection of the fund/scheme. They are basically influenced by the intrinsic qualities of the product followed by efficient fund management and general image of the fund/scheme in their selection of fund schemes. It is further revealed that the investors are influenced by the infrastructural facilities of the sponsor and the reputation enjoyed by the sponsor, , the extent and quality of disclosure of information in their selection of the schemes The falling interest rates and a reasonably good performance of many growth schemes during the turn of the century might have been the reason for the high preference of Growth Schemes during the period under study. Now the scale is in favour of Income Schemes. So, it is suggested that AMCs should react in time to the changing market moods by launching new products or repositioning old ones. The survey further reveals that the scheme selection decision is made by respondents on their own Further 44% of the respondents reported that they use internet facility to know more about MFs.52
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. Rajeswar T.R. ,Rama Moorthy , Prasanthi Nilayam V.E. 2001An Empirical Study on Factors Influencing the mutual fund/scheme selection by retail investor http://www.utiicm.com/Cmc/PDFs/
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Bijan Roy conducted an empirical study on conditional performance of Indian mutual funds. This paper uses a technique called conditional performance evaluation on a sample of eighty-nine Indian mutual fund schemes .This paper measures the performance of various mutual funds with both unconditional and conditional form of CAPM, Treynor- Mazuy model and Henriksson-Merton Model. The effect of incorporating lagged information variables into the evaluation of mutual fund managers performance is examined in the Indian context. The results suggest that the use of Conditioning lagged information variables improves the performance of mutual fund schemes, causing alphas to shift towards right and reducing the number of negative timing coefficients.53. Another paper
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used Return Based Style Analysis (RBSA) to evaluate equity mutual
funds in India using quadratic optimization of an asset class factor model proposed by William Sharpe and analysis of the relative performance of the funds with respect to their style benchmarks. Their study found that the mutual funds generated positive monthly returns on the average, during the study period of January 2000 through June 2005. The ELSS funds lagged the Growth funds or all funds taken together, with respect to returns generated. The mean returns of the growth funds or all funds were not only positive but also significant. The ELSS funds also demonstrated marginally higher volatility (standard deviation) than the Growth funds. Another study55 examined the risk-adjusted performance of open-end mutual funds which invest mainly in German stocks using Jensons measure and Sharpes measure. The study finds out that the rates of return of the mutual funds and the rates of return of the chosen benchmark both must include identical return components. Either both must include dividends or exclude them. The performance estimates are not very sensitive with respect to the benchmark choice. When we look at an investment strategy in which the investment in a specific fund has the same risk as the chosen benchmark, the
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Bijan Roy, Saiket Sovan Deb, The conditional performance of Indian mutual funds: an empirical study, Working paper, http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=593723 54 Prof. Banerjee, Ashok et. Al (2007),Performance Evaluation of Indian Mutual Funds vis--vis their style benchmarks, www.ssrn.com, paper no.962827 and PP.1-18
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Stehle,Richard and Grewe,Olaf (2001), Long-Run Performance of German Stock Mutual Funds, www.ssrn.com, paper no.271452 and PP. 1-32
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average underperformance is small when we weight the individual fund returns equally. The average performance is neutral, when we weight the individual fund returns according to fund size, measured by assets under management. One more paper analyzed whether it was more appropriate to apply a factor-based or a characteristic-based model - both known as benchmarks in portfolio performance measurement using the Linear model, asset pricing model and Fama and French factors. The study showed that if information on returns was used and a linear model was proposed that adjusted return to a set of exogenous variables, then the right side of the equation reported the achieved performance and the passive benchmark that replicated the style or risk of the assessed portfolio. While, a factor model utilizes a replicate benchmark with short positions implicitly symmetrical to the long positions. Performance of Russell indexes was analyzed by applying various factor models, constructed from the indexes themselves, and other models that use the indexes directly as benchmarks; the presence of biases was detected. Therefore, according to the empirical findings, selection of exogenous variables that define the replicate benchmark would appear to be more relevant than the type of model applied. 56 Another study aimed at analyzing performance of select open-ended equity mutual fund using Sharpe Ratio, Hypothesis testing and return based on yield. The most important finding of the study had been that only four Growth plans and one Dividend plan (5 out of the 42 plans studied) could generate higher returns than that of the market which is contrary to the general opinion prevailing in the Indian mutual fund market. Even the Sharpe ratios of Growth plans and the corresponding Dividend plans stand testimony to the relatively better performance of Growth plans. The statistical tests in terms of F-test and t-Test further corroborate the significant performance differences between the Growth plans and Dividend plans. 57 Another study investigated mutual fund performance using a survivorship bias controlled sample of 506 funds from the 5 most important mutual fund countries using
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Carlos,Juan (2005), Portfolio Performance: Factors or Benchmarks?, www.ssrn.com, paper no.760204 and PP. 1-26
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Rao,D.N (2006), Investment styles and Performance of Equity Mutual Funds in India, www.ssrn.com, paper no. 922595 and PP. 1-30
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Carhart (1997) 4-factor asset-pricing model. The study revealed a preference of European funds for small and high book-to-market stocks (value). Secondly, it showed that small cap mutual funds as an investment style out-performed their benchmark, even after control for common factors in stock returns. Finally 4 out of 5 countries delivered positive aggregate alphas, where only UK funds out-performed significantly. 58 One more study looked at some measures of composite performance that combine risk and return levels into a single value using Treynors ratio, Sharpes ratio, Jensons measure. The study analyzed the performance of 80 mutual funds and based on the analysis of these 80 funds, it was found that none of the mutual funds were fully diversified. This implied there is still some degree of unsystematic risk that one cannot get rid of through diversification. This also led to another conclusion that none of those funds would land on Markowitzs efficient portfolio curve. 59 Another paper aimed to evaluate if mutual fund managers exhibit persistently superior stock selection skills over a short-horizon of one year using risk-adjusted abnormal returns (RAR), One-factor capital asset pricing model or CAPM three-factor, FamaFrench model, Four-factor Carhart model. Their study demonstrated that short-term persistence in equity mutual funds performance does not necessarily imply superior stock selection skills. Common factors in stock returns explained some of the abnormal returns in top ranking mutual fund schemes. Only the winner portfolios sorted on fourfactor alphas' provided an annual abnormal return of about 10% on post-formation basis using daily data. The short-term persistence results were much better when daily data was used rather than monthly observations, thus implying that data frequency does affect inferences about fund performance. 60 A similar study examined the empirical properties of performance measures for mutual funds using Simulation procedures combined with random and random-stratified
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Otten,Rogr and Bams,Dennis, European Mutual Fund Performance, www.ssrn.com, paper no.213808 and PP. 1-42
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Wolasmal,Hewad, Performance evaluation of mutual funds, published by Econ WPA, paper no. 0509023 and PP. 1-20
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Prof. Sehgal,Sanjay and Jhanwar,Manoj (2007),Short-Term Persistence In Mutual Funds Performance: Evidence From India, www.ssrn.com, paper no.962829 and PP. 1-23
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samples of NYSE and AMEX securities and other performance measurement tools employed are Sharpe measure, Jensen alpha, Treynor measure, appraisal ratio, and Fama-French three-factor model alpha. The study revealed that standard mutual fund performance was unreliable and could result in false inferences. In particular, it was easy to detect abnormal performance and market-timing ability when none exists. The results also showed that the range of measured performance was quite large even when true performance was ordinary. This provided a benchmark to gauge mutual fund performance. Comparisons of their numerical results with those reported in actual mutual fund studies raised the possibility that reported results were due to misspecification, rather than abnormal performance. Finally, the results indicated that procedures based on the Fama-French 3-factor model were somewhat better than CAPM based measures. 61 One more paper evaluated whether or not the selected mutual funds were able to outperform the market on the average over the studied time period. In addition to that by examining the strength of interrelationships of values of PCMs for successive time periods , the study also tried to infer about the extent to which the future values of fund performance were related to its past by using single index model. The study revealed that there were positive signals of information asymmetry in the market with mutual fund managers having superior information about the returns of stocks as a whole. PCM also indicated that on an average mutual funds provided excess (above-average) return, but only when unit of time period was longer (1 qtr or 4 qtr). Therefore, they concluded that for assessing the true performance of a particular mutual fund, a longer time horizon is better. 62 Another study examined the effect of incorporating lagged information variables into the evaluation of mutual fund managers performance in Indian context with the monthly data for 89 Indian mutual fund schemes using Treynor - Mazuy Model, MertonHenriksson Model. The study revealed the use of conditioning lagged information
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Kothari,S.P. and Warner,Jerold (1997), Evaluating Mutual Fund Performance, www.ssrn.com, paper no.75871 and PP. 1-46
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Bhattacharjee,Kaushik and Prof. Roy,Bijan (2006), Fund Performance Measurement Without Benchmark - A Case Of Select Indian Mutual Funds, www.ssrn.com, paper no.962035 and PP. 1-10
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variables causing the alphas to shift towards the right and reducing the number of negative timing coefficients, though it could not be concluded that alphas of conditional model were better compared to its unconditional counterpart as they were not found to be statistically significant. The noticeably different results of the unconditional timing models vis--vis conditional timing models testified superiority of the model. 63
One more study talked about a 4-step model for selecting the right equity fund and illustrated the same in the context of equity mutual funds in Saudi Arabia. The 4 step model was as follows: 1. Compare returns across funds within the same category. 2. Compare fund returns with the returns of benchmark index. 3. Compare against the funds own performance. 4. Risk-related parameters: as indicated by the Standard Deviation (SD) and riskadjusted returns as calculated by the Sharpe Ratio (SR). The study revealed that most of the funds invested in Arab stocks had been in existence for less than a year and the volatility of the GCC stock markets contributed to the relatively poor performance of these funds and the turnaround of these funds could take place only with the rallying of GCC and other Arab markets. Out of the six categories of equity mutual funds in Saudi Arabia discussed above, Funds invested in Asian and European stocks were more consistent in their performance and yielded relatively higher returns than other categories, though funds invested in Saudi stocks yielded higher 3-year returns. Given the future outlook of Asian economies, particularly China and India and the newly emerging economies such as Brazil and Russia, funds invested in the stocks of these countries are likely to continue their current performance in near future. 64
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Roy,Bijanand and Deb,Saikat (2003), The Conditional Performance of Indian Mutual Funds- An Empirical Study, www.ssrn.com, paper no.593723 and PP. 1-24
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Rao,D.N. (2006), 4 Step model to evaluate performance of Mutual Funds in Saudi Arabia www.ssrn.com, paper no.946937 and PP. 1-16
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One more paper studied the performance and portfolio characteristics of 828 newly launched U.S. equity mutual funds over the time period 1991-2005 using Carhart (1997) 4-factor asset-pricing model. Their study revealed new U.S. equity mutual funds outperformed their peers by 0.12% per month over the first three years. However, there were distinct patterns in this superior risk-adjusted performance estimated using Carharts (1997) 4-factor model. The number of fund that started to outperform older funds shrunk substantially after one to three years. These results suggested that the initially favorable performance was to some extent due to risk taking and not necessarily superior manager skill. Scrutinizing the returns further confirmed that the returns of fund started to exhibit higher standard deviations and higher unsystematic risk that could not be explained by the risk exposure to the four factors of the Car hart model. 65 Another paper, analyzed the Indian Mutual Fund Industry pricing mechanism with empirical studies on its valuation. It also analyzed data at both the fund-manager and fund-investor levels. It stated that mispricing of the Mutual funds could be evaluated by comparing the return on market and return on stock. During the pricing period, if the return on stock is negative, then it indicates overpricing and if are positive indicates under pricing. Relative performance measurement was used to measure the performance of the MF with SENSEX and it used Standard Deviation, Correlation analysis, Co-efficient of Determination and Null Hypothesis. This study revealed that standard deviations of the 3-month returns were significant with the increase in the period. The Standard Deviation increase indicated higher deviations from the actual means. The variance and coefficient of variation (COV) were also significant. Variance increases in the later periods indicated higher variability in the returns. As the time horizon increased COV decreased implying value are less consistent as compared to small duration of investments. 66 One more study provided extensive evidence on portfolio characteristics of mutual funds and studied the relation between fund performance and the fund manager's
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Karoui,Aymen and Meier,Iwan (2008), Performance and Characteristics of Mutual fund, www.ssrn.com, paper no.1313284 and PP. 1-37
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Agrawal,Deepak (2007), Measuring Performance of Indian Mutual funds, www.ssrn.com, paper no.1311761 and PP. 1-17
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investment strategy using both the traditional unconditional alpha model, as in Jensen (1968), and the conditional alpha, following Ferson and Schadt (1996). The study showed that a weak negative relation exists between performance and past stock returns in the portfolio. Investing in value stocks could help to improve overall performance. It also showed that mutual funds with a more diversified portfolio performed somewhat better than funds with a less diversified portfolio. However, diversification could be achieved by extending the funds' investment universe and investing in non-listed stocks. Elton, Gruber, Das and Hlavka (1993) showed that funds investing in these types of assets could achieve superior performance simply because these assets were not captured within the benchmark model. This paper, however, found no evidence to indicate that investment outside the fund's primary investment universe would enhance performance. Moreover, the effects of cash holdings on performance were explored, and some weak evidence suggested that large cash holdings implied better tactical decisions. 67 Another paper examined the performance of equity and bond mutual funds that invested primarily in the emerging markets using Treynors ratio, Sharpes ratio, Jensens measure. With this research they found that on an average the U.S. stock market outperformed emerging equity markets but the emerging market bonds outperformed U.S. bonds. They also found that overall emerging market stock funds under-performed the respective MSCI indexes. These were evident by their lower return, higher risk, and thus lower Sharpe ratios. 68 One more paper studied the performance of mutual funds around the world using a sample of 10,568 open-end actively managed equity funds from 19 countries using different models, mainly, domestic market model, international market model, Carhart (1997) domestic four-factor model, Carhart (1997) international four-factor model. With the help of this research they came to a conclusion that the funds size was positively related with fund performance. Larger funds performed better suggesting the presence
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Engstrm,Stefan (2004), Investment Strategies, Fund Performance and Portfolio Characteristics, www.ssrn.com, paper no.520442 and PP. 1-29
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Ahmed,Parvez; Gangopadhyay, Partha & Nanda, Sudhir (2001), Performance of Emerging Market Mutual Funds, www.ssrn.com, paper no.289278 and PP. 1-41
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of significant economies of scale in the mutual fund industry worldwide. This conclusion is consistent among domestic and foreign funds, and in several other robustness tests. Fund age is negatively related with fund performance indicating that younger funds tend to perform better. This finding seemed mainly driven by the samples of foreign and U.S. funds. When investing abroad, young mutual funds seemed to offer investors higher returns. 69 Ashok (2007) Another paper used Return Based Style Analysis (RBSA) to evaluate equity mutual funds in India using quadratic optimization of an asset class factor model proposed by William Sharpe and analysis of the relative performance of the funds with respect to their style benchmarks Their study found that the mutual funds generated positive monthly returns on the average, during the study period of January 2000 through June 2005. The ELSS funds lagged the Growth funds or all funds taken together, with respect to returns generated. The mean returns of the growth funds or all funds were not only positive but also significant. The ELSS funds also demonstrated marginally higher volatility (standard deviation) than the Growth funds.70 Kothari (1997) A similar study examined the empirical properties of performance measures for mutual funds using Simulation procedures combined with random and random-stratified samples of NYSE and AMEX securities and other performance measurement tools employed are Sharpe measure, Jensen alpha, Treynor measure, appraisal ratio, and Fama-French three-factor model alpha. The study revealed that standard mutual fund performance was unreliable and could result in false inferences. In particular, it was easy to detect abnormal performance and market-timing ability when none exists. The results also showed that the range of measured performance was quite large even when true performance was ordinary. This provided a benchmark to gauge mutual fund performance. Comparisons of their numerical results with those reported in actual mutual fund studies raised the possibility that reported results were
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Ferreira, Miguel A.; Miguel, Antnio F.; Ramos, Sofiann (2006), The Determinants of Mutual Fund Performance: A Cross-Country Study, www.ssrn.com, paper no.947098 and PP. 1-58
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Prof. Banerjee, Ashok et. Al (2007),Performance Evaluation of Indian Mutual Funds vis--vis their style benchmarks, www.ssrn.com, paper no.962827 and PP.1-18
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due to misspecification, rather than abnormal performance. Finally, the results indicated that procedures based on the Fama-French 3-factor model were somewhat better than CAPM based measures.71 Sharad and Madhumathi (2006) used sample of public-sector sponsored & privatesector sponsored mutual funds of varied net assets to investigate the differences in characteristics of assets held, portfolio diversification, and variable effects of diversification on investment performance for the period May, 2002 to May, 2005. The study found that public-sector sponsored funds do not differ significantly from privatesector sponsored funds in terms of mean returns%. However, there is a significant difference between public-sector sponsored mutual funds and private-sector sponsored mutual funds in terms of mean returns%. However, there is a significant difference between public-sector sponsored mutual funds and private-sector sponsored mutual funds in terms of average standard deviation, average variance and average coefficient of variation(COV).The study also found that there is a statistical difference between sponsorship classes in terms of e SDAR(excess standard deviation adjusted returns)as a performance measure. When residual variance (RV) is used as the measure of mutual fund portfolio diversification characteristic, there is a statistical difference between public-sector sponsored mutual funds and private-sector sponsored mutual funds for the study period. The model built on testing the impact of diversification on fund performance and found a statistical difference among sponsorship classes when residual variance is used as a measure of portfolio diversification and excess standard deviation adjusted returns as a performance measure. RV, however, has a direct impact on Sharpe fund performance measure.72 Narayan Rao evaluated performance of Indian mutual funds in a bear market through relative performance index, risk-return analysis, Treynors ratio, Sharpes ratio, Sharpes measure, Jensens measure, and Famas measure. The study used 269 open-ended
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15 Kothari, S. P. and Warner, Jerold (1997), Evaluating Mutual Fund Performance, www.ssrn.com, paper no.75871 and PP. 1-46
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Panwar,Sharad and Dr. Madhumathi (2006), Characteristics and performance evaluation of selected mutual funds in India, www.ssrn.com, paper no.876402 and PP. 1-19
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schemes (out of total schemes of 433) for computing relative performance index. Then after excluding funds whose returns are less than risk-free returns, 58 schemes are finally used for further analysis. The results of performance measures suggest that most of mutual fund schemes in the sample of 58 were able to satisfy investors expectations by giving excess returns over expected returns based on both premium for systematic risk and total risk. 73 Naila (2008) has described in her article that Considering the market trends, any
prudent fund managers can change the asset allocation i.e. he can invest higher or lower percentage of the fund in equity or debt instruments compared to what is disclosed in the offer document. It can be done on a short term basis on defensive considerations i.e. to protect the NAV. Hence the fund managers are allowed certain flexibility in altering the asset allocation considering the interest of the investors. It is suggested that the investors before making investment in any schemes must read the offer document of the mutual fund scheme me very carefully. They may also lo ok into the past track record of performance of the scheme or other scheme of the same mutual fund. The y may also compare the performance w th other schemes having similar investment o objectives. The performance of a scheme is reflected in its net asset value (NAV) which is disclosed on daily basis in case of open-ended schemes and on weekly basis in case of close-ended schemes. The NAVs of mutual funds are required to be published in newspapers. The NAVs are also available on the web sites of mutual funds. Investors can also access the NAVs, ha lf-yearly results and portfolios of all mutual funds at the web site of Association of mutual funds in India (AMFI) www.a mfiindia.com. AMFI has also published useful literature for the investors. Investors can log on to the web site of SEBI www.sebi.gov.in.74 Gitanjali, Sudha and Anand in their article Investment Performance of Mutual Fund Income Schemes: An Analysis, During the session of recession everybody wants to invest in safest security. There are various investment modes available with the investors. But according to past experience mutual fund industry is having a safest
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S. Narayan Rao , M. Ravindran ,Performance Evaluation of Indian Mutual Funds, Working paper , http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=433100. 74 Iqbal Naila 2008, Investment In Mutual Fund www.GetA Coder.com
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image as well as is providing proper returns on the investment. Indian capital market is growing rapidly since last couple of decades. This research paper shows the variation in income schemes of mutual funds, NAV and performance of these selected mutual funds schemes and tells about mutual funds organization. Sharpe, Treynor, Jensen, Standard deviation and Beta are various methods having different nature and help in determining which mutual fund scheme is best. The reference period for the study is five years from April 2004 to March 2009.The results show that Canara Robeco Income Scheme Bonus is having the maximum return, maximum Sharpe and maximum Alpha and it is having highest Beta also.75 Theses Alam Noushad (2010), has discussed various issues and prospects of the Indian mutual fund industry since 1991.The research mainly focuses on the evolution of the regulatory framework, growth of net resources, mobilized by the mutual fund since 1981, its role in mobilization of the house hold sector savings, the role of AMFI in the promotion of the industry and the growth trend of the industry since liberalization. The study also makes an empirical analysis of the HDFC mutual funds by making use of various financial and statistical tools.76 1.5 Research Gap: After going through review of literature related to the Mutual Fund industry in india ,it is evident that although huge work has been done since the inception of UTI on the related topics like the performance of mutual fund schemes, Investors preferences for the different mutual funds schemes, Growth of the Mutual fund industry. With the literature review done, I came to know that, the detailed work is not undertaken to assess the comparative performance between the public sector Mutual Funds and private sector Mutual Funds. Thus, comparison between the different schemes of public and private sector mutual fund has not been done in detail.
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http://maimt.com/download.aspx?id=articles&id2 Alam Noushad, Indian Mutual Industry since Liberalisation:A case study of HDFC Mutual Fund Thesis,Dept Of commerce , AMU,2010
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1.6 Objectives of the Study: The overriding objective of the study is to assess the relationship between the public sector Mutual Funds and private sector Mutual Funds in India. However, the proposed work has been undertaken to achieve the following specific objectives as well: 1. The main purpose of doing this research work is to know about mutual fund and its functioning and to know in details about mutual fund industry right from its inception stage, growth and future prospects. 2. To understand different schemes of mutual funds in India like equity, income, balance as well as the returns associated with those schemes. 3. The project study was done to ascertain the asset allocation, entry load, exit load, associated with the mutual funds. Ultimately this would help in understanding the benefits of mutual funds to investors. 4. To examine the role of mutual funds in promoting the economic development. 5. To examine the various major environmental changes affecting the Indian mutual funds industry.
6. To study the role of mutual funds in Indian capital market.
7. To compare the market return of mutual fund vis a vis SENSEX.

8. To analyse the various changes in India mutual funds industry after liberalization.
9. To compare the performance of schemes of public-sector and private-sector mutual funds in India.
10. To make a comparative study of Indian mutual funds industry with global mutual
funds industry.
11. To find various measures to overcome the problems of Indian mutual funds
industry and to make suggestive strategies to get maximum benefits from the globalised mutual funds industry.
12. To make various measure to make the Indian mutual funds industry at par with
the global standard. 1.7 Significance of the Study: The present study aims at analyzing the overall comparison of the performance of public and private sector mutual funds of India. Since the mutual fund is a very broad
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market and on the basis of the research gap a confined area has been studied. The study will help the researchers, academicians, corporations, investors, institutions and other entities which are involve directly or indirectly with the mutual fund operation to understand the following thing which have emerged as a matter of this research: 1. The study will definitely help the investors in deciding the various schemes of mutual funds in regard to investment. This will help the different investors in formulating their strategies to make the best use of their saving inn mutual funds. 2. The study will help the investors in knowing the evaluation of various schemes of mutual funds. 3. The study will help the investors in knowing the mechanism of the operation of mutual fund industry in India. 4. The study will help the investors in knowing the various important factors affecting the performance of mutual fund industry.
5. This study will help in knowing the profitability, liquidity, marketability and global
competitiveness of the Indian mutual fund industry.

6. The study will also help the various authorities of mutual fund to bring further
improvement in the market in regard to protect the larger interest of the small investors. 1.8 Hypotheses of the Study: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. There is no significant difference between the returns of public and private sector mutual funds. There is no significant difference between the turnover of public and private sector mutual funds. There is no significant difference between the investment of FIIs in public and private sector mutual funds. There is no significant difference of transaction cost between public and private sector mutual funds. There is no significant difference in annual average rate of growth of net resources mobilization by the public and private sector mutual funds.
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1.9 Sources of data: To achieve the objectives of the present study, the primary and secondary sources of information have been utilized. The history, genesis, components, growth, performances of the mutual fund have been examined on the basis of secondary data like periodicals, text books, journals, reports, office records of various organizations like SEBI, RBI and ministry of finance, and different websites containing information of Indian mutual fund. Thus, the research work is heavily banked on the secondary source of information. The source of my study is based on secondary data. This is because our study pertains to historical analysis of reported financial data. Daily Net Asset Values (NAV) data have been used for the Schemes and the daily closing prices for the benchmark market index (NSE Nifty) have also been used. The main sources of data have been Economic Times Investment Bureau and the official website of National Stock Exchange (www.nse-india.com). The main source of secondary data are obtained from company websites .In formal discussions were made with threw industry staff .During the course of discussions the staff expresses their opinions regarding the funds. The actual performance and effectiveness of the Indian mutual fund have been examined in the light of the perception of investors and various functionaries involved in the system in regard to investors perception, operating efficiency and transaction cost. For this purpose, discussions and interviews were conducted with a large number of officials and experts who are associated with the Indian mutual fund operation like investors and brokers.
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1.10 Limitations of the Study: 1. The study is restricted to secondary data only. 2. Different tools used for the study may suggest different results as the approach differs. 3. The study considers data of only limited duration of time. 4. The study is based on selected schemes therefore limiting the area of research. 5. This analysis is carried on certain assumptions hence the assumptions would be biased. 1.11 Statistical Tools used: 1.12 Span of time: 1.13 Chapterisation of the Study: The present research work has been divided into the following chapters: The first chapter deals with the introductory part and the framework of the study which includes introduction, literature review, research gap, objective, scope, methodology, hypotheses, importance of the study. The second chapter deals with the conceptual framework of Indian Mutual Fund Industry including historical background, classification of Mutual Funds, developments of the Mutual Fund Industry in pre and post liberalized era, and legal framework of Mutual Fund Industry . The third chapter deals with the role of the Mutual Fund industry in the Indian Capital market. The numbers of important aspects of the Mutual Fund industry have been assessed such as asset under management (AUM), resource mobilization, FIIs and Mutual Fund investment and their impact on the capital market. The fourth chapter deals with the comparative performance of the public sector Mutual funds and private sector Mutual funds.
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The fifth chapters deal with the analyses and interpretation of the hypotheses of the study. The hypotheses have been tested by using suitable statistical tools and interpretations have also been made on the basis of results obtained. The sixth chapter deals with the findings and recommendations on the basis of the study. The seventh chapter deals with the conclusion on the basis of the study. 1.14 Conclusion This chapter deals with the background and Perspective Framework of the Study which includes Statement of Problems, Emerging Issues, Review of the literature, Research Gap, Scope and Objectives of the study, Hypotheses of the study, Methodology of the Study, Significance and Need of the Study, Use of Statistical Tools, Scheme of Chapters and References. After going through background and Perspective Framework of the Study, it is necessary to touch upon the conceptual Framework of the Mutual Fund industry before its assessment. The Conceptual Framework of the Mutual Fund industry is highlighted in the next chapter.
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