We offer empirical evidence that stocks with low volatility earn higher risk-adjusted returns compared to high volatility stocks in the Indian stock market. The annualised excess returns for the low and high volatility decile portfolios amount to 11.40% and 1.30%, respectively, over the period...

Finance theory suggests that higher return comes with higher risk. However, several studies have reported the evidences of low-risk anomaly in the US and other global markets, where portfolio of low volatility stocks delivers superior risk-adjusted returns as compared to market index and high...