The continuing liberalization of Indian economy has resulted in extensive inflow of foreign capital into India. High economic growth and capital account liberalization led to increased currency exposures of both domestic entities and foreign counterparts, leading to a rise in the demand for risk...

Mutual fund performance is an unending area of interest both for academicians as well as fund managers for the simple reason as it is a product meant for retail investor. A set of performance measures like Sharpe ratio, Jensen's Alpha are widely used measures. But in today's volatile market...

Traditional measures of performance evaluation are in vogue since long, however, Value at Risk (VaR) approaches are making their place in portfolio management industry from the last ten years. Value at Risk (VaR) approach focuses on the downside volatility of portfolio, thus making the investor...

Indian Government is proposing quiet stringent policies for tackling the climate changes and financial service sector is also covered in the regime. The massive amount of carbon emissions and pollutants are fatal for the human kind and countries are making effort to create a carbon free economy....

The rules of work are changing increasingly. The increasing complexities both in business as well as in human behavior have created the need for not only people with high Intelligent Quotient (IQ) but people with high Emotional Quotient (EQ) also. In the present era where the slogan “Customer...

The main objective of this paper is to analyze the factors determining the capital structure of Indian companies. This analysis is grounded on agency theory and pecking order theory. The paper takes into consideration dependent variable being debt equity ratio and independent variables viz....

The past years have been a defining period for the mutual fund industry, as lack of incentivisation has made it increasingly burdensome for the distributor to reach out to the retail investor. Rather, role of distribution channel is phenomenal in delivery of product or service. Majority of the...

The Global recession has marred the countries worldwide. The ever-growing Indian economy is no exception and has finally encountered a slowdown and the results are crystal clear. The lower GDP, increased inflation rate, increased job searches are some of the highlighting factors signaling the...

Traditional measures of performance evaluation are in vogue since long, however, Value at Risk (VaR) approaches are making their place in portfolio management industry from the last ten years. Value at Risk (VaR) approach focuses on the downside volatility of portfolio, thus making the investor...