The study attempts to assess the influence of investor sentiment onselected sectoral indices returns volatility in the Indian stock market over theperiod from 2015-2019. GARCH, EGARCH, and Bivariate VAR models wereapplied for data analysis after checking unit root issue of the data. Nine...

Indian mutual fund has gained a lot of popularity from the past few years. Earlier only UTI enjoyed the monopoly in this industry, but with the passage of time, many new players entered the market. As the time has passed, this industry has become a buzzword in the Indian financial system. Mutual...

This paper presents a perceptual model of mutual fund performance that attempts to go beyond the conventional models. Model presented in this paper is based on the perception of individual investors about various selected parameters affecting the performance of mutual fund. As all the...

Indian mutual fund industry is experiencing tremendous growth, which is the outcome of infrastructural expansion and advancement in India. This paper contributes to the mutual fund performance literature by bridging the gap of an empirical research based on determinants of mutual fund family as...

The Indian mutual fund market is still under penetrated, as even in today’s scenario, most of India’s population prefers to channelize their savings into fixed deposits, real estate, and gold rather than in the capital market. The given case study discusses the practices to be followed by an...

This study is committed to address the global concern of sustainability by bringing in the discussion on sustainability of earnings as a new approach to measure earnings. The given research work attempts to analyse the deviations in the normal profit margin by examining operating and...

Indian women are now actively participating in all fragments of society such as education, politics, media, science and technology; in the process, they are becoming financially independent also. With a changing scenario, women have started actively participating in investing their surplus...

Mutual funds have opened new vistas to millions of investors by virtually taking investment to their doorstep. In India, retail investors in general rely on the information which neither provides hedge against inflation nor have positive real returns. He finds himself to be an odd man out in the...

Retail investors are turning out to be highly vigilant in financial matters. They are contributing a substantial amount of stakes along with emotions in the market. They are making it challenging for financial service providers to plan marketing stratagem after encountering quite a few financial...