scholarly journals Mutual Funds Performance (A Case of Pakistan Open Ended Mutual Funds)

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Yasir Khan ◽  
Mukharif Shah ◽  
Darwash Muhammad

Mutual Funds through its professional managers enable small investors to enjoy benefits of capital market with small amount. This study with special focus on Performance-Chasing Behavior and Mutual Funds in an Emerging Economy like Pakistan. The data of 100 open-end Mutual Funds, for the period 2013 to 2018 was collected from Mutual Fund Association of Pakistan; while the risk free rates data was collected from State Bank of Pakistan and Stock data from Pakistan Stock Exchange for predicting the results, Ratio and models were used to understand its suitability. The study has certain implications for the investors in knowing which  funds perform better and which kind of funds are ideal for investment.

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Yasir Khan ◽  
Mukharif Shah ◽  
Darwash Muhammad

Mutual Funds through its professional managers enable small investors to enjoy benefits of capital market with small amount. This study with special focus on Performance-Chasing Behavior and Mutual Funds in an Emerging Economy like Pakistan. The data of 100 open-end Mutual Funds, for the period 2013 to 2018 was collected from Mutual Fund Association of Pakistan; while the risk free rates data was collected from State Bank of Pakistan and Stock data from Pakistan Stock Exchange for predicting the results, Ratio and models were used to understand its suitability. The study has certain implications for the investors in knowing which  funds perform better and which kind of funds are ideal for investment.


Author(s):  
P. Subramanyam ◽  
Nalla Kalyan

The main objective of the study is to give investors a basic idea of investing into the mutual funds and encourage them to invest in those areas where they can maximize the return on their capital. The research provided an interesting insight into awareness about the mutual funds, risk taking abilities of investors and investment options preferred etc. The Indian Capital has been increasing tremendously during the last few years. With reforms of economy, reforms of investing policy, reforms of public sector and reforms of financial sector, the economy has been opened up and many developments have been taking place in the Indian money market and Capital market. In order to help the small investors, mutual fund industry has come to occupy an important place. This study helps us to understand how the companies diversify themselves in different sectors and in different companies to maximize the returns and to minimize the risks involved in it.


2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 165-176
Author(s):  
Yasir Khan ◽  
Dr. Saima Batool ◽  
Mukharif Shah ◽  
Mukharif Shah

Mutual Funds through its professional managers enable small investors to enjoy benefits of capital market with small amount. This study with special focus on Pakistani Mutual Fund industry, tests the suitability of traditional measures and multifactor, asset pricing models on the Mutual Fund performance. Owing to rareness of the applicability of the multifactor models in comparison to traditional measures, in evaluating Mutual Fund performance in modern day Pakistani research, the study uses CAPM, Fama French, Carhart models in the performance evaluation of Pakistan Mutual Fund. The data of 100 open-end Mutual Funds, for the period 2005 to 2017 was collected from Mutual Fund Association of Pakistan; while the risk free rates data was collected from State Bank of Pakistan and Stock data from Pakistan Stock Exchange for predicting the results, Ratio analysis, CAPM, Fama French-3 Factor and Carhart-4 factor model were used to understand its suitability. The results demonstrated that application of CAPM, affect market factors of majority of the portfolios.Where as in other two models (Fama French, Carhart) the majority of the portfolios are insignificantly affected by the size factor, value factor and Momentum factor. The Gibbon Rose Shanken unveils the suitability of the best model and justify CAPM as the better model among the three competing models in evaluate on theMutual Fund performance in Pakistan. The study has certain implications for the managers of assets management companies as well as useful for the investors in knowing which funds perform better and which kind of funds are ideal for investment.


2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 165
Author(s):  
Yuliana Eva Hartati ◽  
Early Ridho Kismawadi ◽  
Abdul Hamid ◽  
Ainun Mardhiah

<em>The increasing development of Islamic mutual funds and making a more varied and more promising sharia capital market instrument for investors who want to invest their capital in the Islamic capital market, are able to make Indonesia the largest country in establishing a sharia capital market. However, the development of Islamic mutual funds is not easy to make the largest sharia-based investment container in Indonesia because there are still many factors that can affect the rise and fall of NAVs in Islamic mutual funds that Investment Managers still find difficult to overcome. The purpose of this study is to analyze the factors that influence the development of Islamic mutual funds in Indonesia. In this study the data used is secondary data. Data obtained from various sources, namely part of the Indonesia Stock Exchange (BEI) Annual Report and also a portion of the Sharia Mutual Fund Development Statistics in the Financial Services Authority (OJK) and Bank Indonesia (BI) taken in the third quarter of 2015-Quarterly III 2018. Data were analyzed using multiple linear regression methods and using SPSS software. The results obtained showed that partially Islamic NAV mutual funds were only influenced by inflation and the number of RDS, while the Jakarta Islamic Indeks and the exchange rate did not affect the NAV of Islamic mutual funds. Simultaneously shows that Jakarta Islamic Indeks, exchange rate, inflation and the amount of RDS have a simultaneous influence on the dependent variable (Islamic mutual fund NAV</em><em>.</em>


2012 ◽  
Vol 02 (03) ◽  
pp. 12-18
Author(s):  
Azeez B.A. ◽  
Sulaiman L.A.

The responsiveness of the market financial instruments in terms of prices to reflect market information and the inability of information privileged market participant(s) to out-perform other counterparts pose the quest to test whether the strong form of market efficiency prevail in the Nigerian capital market or not. With the extraction of the returns on 240 stocks from the database of the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE), a comparison was made between a constructed random portfolio and a 3-year annualized average return on the portfolios of the mutual fund industry. In this empirical study, the analysis deduced that mutual funds were unable to out-perform the random portfolios created from the index stocks, which thus implies that the strong form of market efficiency holds in the Nigerian Capital Market. Nonetheless, profound analysis on stock volatility risk is essential to avoid substantial loss in the stock market.


Author(s):  
Sobhesh Kumar Agarwalla ◽  
Samir K. Barua

Mutual Funds are vehicles designed to help small investors invest in a whole range of financial assets. The fund managers of mutual funds provide the expertise that is needed to make the correct choices and design the portfolio on behalf of the inadequately equipped small investors. Morgan Stanley became the first of the global players to enter the Indian capital market when it invited subscriptions from Indian nationals to its mutual fund scheme - the Morgan Stanley Growth Fund (MSGF) in early 1994. The case describes the manner in which the entry was perceived in India and provides data for an assessment of whether the global giant was able to fulfil the early expectations of investors.


Author(s):  
Washeka Anjom

Mutual fund, an investment vehicle by retail investors,is playing a vital role in our capital market by transforming the sum of the invested funds of investors into investing in a diversified portfolio by the professional investment managers.Since 1980, the mutual funds have been emerging rapidly in the stock market of Bangladesh. This research work attempts to evaluate the financial performance of growth-oriented Bangladeshi Close-end mutual funds traded in Chittagong Stock Exchange (CSE). In order to fulfill the objectives of the paper, ten mutual funds out of thirty-six have chosen. The Prime data used is the Net Asset Value (NAV) of the selected mutual funds and the returns of the CS 30 as a benchmark index. This paper concentrates on the evaluation of mutual funds by employing various research methodologies such as Treynor’s ratio, Sharpe ratio,and Jensen’s alpha and Regression Analysis. Finally, an attempt has also undertaken to assess the statistical relationship between the performance CS 30 and the mutual funds.


2019 ◽  
Vol 118 (8) ◽  
pp. 28-34
Author(s):  
Dr. V. Murali Krishna ◽  
Dr T. Hima Bindu ◽  
Dr. Ravikumar Gunakala

Mutual Fund Industry is one of the emerged dominant financial intermediaries in Indian Capital Market. The main objective of investing in a mutual fund is to diversify risk. Though the mutual fund invests in diversified portfolio, the fund managers take different levels of risk in order to achieve the schemes objectives. Mutual funds allow portfolio diversification and relative risk management through collection of funds from the savers/investors, the same investing in equity and debt stocks. This type of invested funds is managed by professional experts called as fund managers Funds are categorized as income should fixed base in India are a kind of mutual fund which makes investment in debt securities that have been issued to the corporate, banking institutions and to government in general


2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (1.1) ◽  
pp. 60
Author(s):  
R. Udhayasankar ◽  
K. Maran

Mutual fund is four decades old in India.  It was started by UTI during the year 1964 with few schemes for small investors. During this short span of time it has made tremendous growth in Indian small investors. But now a day’s its volume of investors and sources of investment also growing tremendous level. Moreover mutual fund scheme have added new dimension to overcome financial risk of small investors and also in fund raising capacity of corporate sectors. Mutual fund investors can diversify even more by purchasing different kind of stocks which will helps to spreading out investors’ money across different types of derivative instruments and hence it reduces the risk tremendously up to certain extent and it is automatically diversify in a predetermined category of investments. This serves bridge work between small investors and corporate sectors likewise considering those points in this paper is an attempt to know the investors’ perceptions towards selected mutual funds. This paper makes an attempt to identify various factors affecting perception of investors regarding investment in mutual funds. The findings will helpful to identify the investors’ interest base and factors clearly and it reveals that the investors consider mutual funds as flexible investment option and it creates interest of investment among small investors.


2020 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 3-15
Author(s):  
Mazen Bustanji

This paper analyses the strong-form efficiency of the capital market in Jordan by evaluating the performance of mutual funds over the period from 2011 to 2016, and compare it with the situation in Saudi Arabia using the Jensen modelling techniques. These tests were applied on monthly data. Results from the study show that there is no evidence of the strong-form of efficiency in either the Amman Stock Exchange or in the Saudi Arabia capital market. Therefore, investors in the Amman Stock Exchange and Saudi Arabia capital market cannot predict stocks prices or returns in the short term; with regard to firms, it suggests that the securities of firms cannot outperform the market and present market price is to a certain extent a true reflection of the present situation of their securities, in addition there is lack number availability of the mutual funds in Jordan.


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