Performance Analysis of Equity Large Cap Mutual Funds : A Case Study Based on Hedge Equities, Kochi

The mutual fund is a pooling of fund from investors and invests it in a diversified securities or different types of securities. The open ended mutual fund, the investor can participate at any time there is no restrictions in entry and exit. The close ended mutual fund the investor cannot participate at any time, because there are restrictions in entry and exit. For measuring the performance of mutual fund we used Sharpe ratio and Treynor ratio. The important tools used in this project is mean, standard deviation, beta, Sharpe ratio and Treynor ratio. Standard deviation means deviation from mean and beta means proportion of a stock's instability in connection to the market, by definition the market has a beta of 1.0, and individual stocks are positioned by the amount they deviate from the market.In this study we can understand that the risk-return adjustment is very important for the performance of Mutual fund. Investment decisions principally relies on the investors attitude towards risk and return of each of the revenues investment. Planning &advisory assumes a critical job in encouraging a financial specialist in researching process. For prompting an investor for venture, performance evaluation is vital, and the study is trying to identify risk and returns of equity funds and it help investors to recognize better investment sectors. Consequently, the present study is entitled, “performance analysis of Selected Equity Large Cap Mutual Funds”