Financial Literacy and Mutual Fund Industry in India: Growth and Prospects

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (5) ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 5212-5216

The Indian mutual fund industry history started in 1963. The development of the mutual funds industry in India from all the parameters like number of asset management companies, number of schemes, number of investors, and amount of fund invested in mutual funds, mutual funds played major role in the development of the country’s industrial and economic growth etc. Household sector is the key fund supplier to mutual fund industry. Household sectors saving growth rate has been raising year by year. This study address the question, has mutual fund industry succeeded in India? Indian mutual funds have not utilized complete potentiality of prospective investors. Mutual funds have succeeded and played major role in the development of industry, economy etc. in developed countries like USA and Japan. Mutual fund industry facing numbers of problems in our country like lack of investor’s awareness due to less financial literacy, investors are interested to invest in nonfinancial assets, available, mutual fund schemes are not catering the needs and expectations of investors, dominance of unorganized investment avenues, availability of insufficient investment advisors, etc. Based on the study and analysis suggests and recommends to overcome the challenges which are being faced by mutual funds industry in India.


Author(s):  
Anindita Adhikary ◽  
Bedanta Bora ◽  
Jitendra Kumar

The Indian mutual fund industry is playing a significant role in the development of capital market and in the growth of the Indian economy. It is considered to be a better opportunity where savings are collected from investors and diverted to the capital market to generate better returns for them with lower risk and volatility. Hence, it is of utmost significance to understand the mutual fund industry in India. As such, this chapter makes an attempt to review the various literatures available in regard to mutual funds to evaluate the performance of various mutual fund schemes and to study the investor's perception in selection of a mutual fund. The study shows that mutual funds have failed to offer advantages of diversification and professionalism to the investors and hence could not fulfil their scheme's objectives. It is also found that retail investors are still confused about the mutual funds as an investment avenue. In order to attain sustained profitable growth, the industry should focus on developing distribution networks, increasing retail participation and expanding the reach of mutual funds by conducting awareness programs and extending financial literacy.


Author(s):  
Anindita Adhikary ◽  
Bedanta Bora ◽  
Jitendra Kumar

The Indian mutual fund industry is playing a significant role in the development of capital market and in the growth of the Indian economy. It is considered to be a better opportunity where savings are collected from investors and diverted to the capital market to generate better returns for them with lower risk and volatility. Hence, it is of utmost significance to understand the mutual fund industry in India. As such, this chapter makes an attempt to review the various literatures available in regard to mutual funds to evaluate the performance of various mutual fund schemes and to study the investor's perception in selection of a mutual fund. The study shows that mutual funds have failed to offer advantages of diversification and professionalism to the investors and hence could not fulfil their scheme's objectives. It is also found that retail investors are still confused about the mutual funds as an investment avenue. In order to attain sustained profitable growth, the industry should focus on developing distribution networks, increasing retail participation and expanding the reach of mutual funds by conducting awareness programs and extending financial literacy.


CFA Digest ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 42 (2) ◽  
pp. 106-107
Author(s):  
Sadaf Aliuddin

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