Mergers, acquisitions and corporate control have emerged as major forces in the modern financial and economic environment. The mergers and acquisitions in India have changed dramatically after the liberalization of Indian economy. To assess the impact of an “event” announcement of a tender...

The globalization of financial markets has been increasing the size of the community of retail investors' over the past two decades by providing a wide variety of market and investment options. Hence, it makes their investment decisions process more complex. The market conditions can be...

The Mutual Funds provides alternative opportunities to investors with benefits of diversification and professional research back up. Once the objectives of investment and associated constraints have been identified, the Fund Managers could select an efficient portfolio. The Fund Managers...

The Mutual Funds Industry is one of the fast growing sectors in India since the initiation of economic reforms in 1991. The rapid growth of Mutual Funds has compelled the researchers to take a deeper look into the performance of Mutual Funds, taking into account the expectations of investors,...

Calendar Anomalies in the stock market are those patterns that cannot be explained by traditional asset pricing models. Examples of such patterns include the January Effect, the Day-of-the-Week Effect, and the Week of the Month Effects. These anomalies allow investors to develop trading...

The efficiency of the capital market raises various issues all over the world. Earlier research studies give evidence that the capital markets are informational efficient and hence, cannot outperform the market consistently on the basis of price change predictions. However, some researchers have...

Fractal Analysis assesses the fractal characteristics of data. It consists of several methods to assign a fractal dimension and other fractal characteristics in a data set which may be a theoretical data set or a pattern of signals extracted from phenomena including natural geometric objects,...