Abstract: The mutual fund is a trust that pools the savings of a number of investors who share a common financial goal. This pool of money is invested in accordance with a stated objective.Mutual funds provide the best option to the investors who have no knowledge of the stock market. Mutual Fund is the most suitable investment for the common man as it offers an opportunity to invest in a diversified, professionally managed basket of securities at a relatively low cost. The present study aims to evaluating the historical performance of 17 selected equity and open ended option Mutual fund schemes with the application of Risk Adjusted Performance Measures whose results will be useful for investors for taking better investment decisions and also brings out which scheme is outperforming or underperformingin relation to the benchmark portfolio is computed.The study uses Return Risk analysis and Risk Adjusted Performance Measures.
Keywords: Performance evaluation, Risk – Return analysis, fund return, Market Return, Risk Adjusted Performance Measures.
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