Stock market volatility is a matter of great interest for researchers and policy makers. The present study examines the volatility of daily, weekly and monthly stock returns in view of economic growth rate. It investigates the hypothesis that high economic growth rate tend to stabilize the...

The paper attempts to measure the relationship between risk and return, and the effect of diversification on non-market risk in Indian stock market by applying Market Index Model. For the analysis monthly adjusted opening and closing prices of composite portfolio of BSE 100 companies, for the...

This study is based on the monthly data of 28 equity diversified Indian fund schemes for the period from January 2007 to June 2011. The selected equity diversified fund schemes show mixed performance. About 60% of the fund schemes were able to beat the benchmark markets. Better performing fund...