scholarly journals Mutual Fund Performance and the Impact of Superannuation and Financial Regulation

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
James M. Cooper ◽  
Russell Gregory-Allen
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Mutual Funds ◽  
Open Economy ◽  
Mutual Fund ◽  
Financial Regulation ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Small Open Economy ◽  
Fund Industry ◽  
Mutual Fund Industry ◽  
The Impact

Financial innovation such as a new superannuation scheme can allow for broader participation in retirement savings by individuals, but might also impact existing investments. On the other hand, mutual fund regulation involves a balancing act between protecting investors, and allowing fund managers to exercise their skills. Some recent changes in the fund environment of New Zealand allows an examination of the impact on performance from those changes in a small, open economy. Using a sample of New Zealand mutual funds, we compared performance before and after the introduction of two significant changes in the financial environment of New Zealand. In 2007, a state-sponsored investment scheme called KiwiSaver was introduced, providing significant incentives for more and more New Zealanders to save. Participation was substantial, and by 2015 KiwiSaver funds under management had exceeded traditional open-end funds. At the time of KiwiSaver’s introduction, mutual fund regulations was quite lax, particularly in the area of financial disclosure. However, in 2013 a new law was introduced, substantially increasing the disclosure requirements for those funds participating in the KiwiSaver scheme. First we examined, the impact on the New Zealand mutual fund industry upon the introduction of KiwiSaver, and then on the introduction of the increased KiwiSaver regulations, in order to determine if these harmed the overall New Zealand mutual fund industry. We found that the New Zealand mutual funds which focused on New Zealand or Australian equities experienced some negative performance after the introduction of KiwiSaver, but the impact on the overall industry was not significant. We also found that the increased regulations had some positive impact on performance, particularly for those funds emphasising global equities.  

A Study on Investment Decision of Investors With Reference to Penetration of Mutual Funds in India

2016 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ratish C Gupta ◽  
Dr. Manish Mittal
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Real Estate ◽  
Mutual Funds ◽  
Capital Markets ◽  
Mutual Fund ◽  
Financial Services ◽  
Investment Decision ◽  
Fund Industry ◽  
Mutual Fund Industry ◽  
The Impact

The Indian mutual fund industry is one of the fastest growing and most competitive segments of the financial sector. The extent of under-penetration in the market is a sore point with the financial services industry, with a large amount of savings being channelized into fixed deposits, gold and real estate rather than the capital markets. The mutual fund industry is yet to spread its reach beyond Tier I cities. The top fifteen cities contribute to 85% of the pie, with the remaining 15% distributed among other cities. The study seeks to determine the impact of decision making of investors on current situation of mutual fund industry.

A Study on Factors for Investor Dissatisfaction towards Mutual Funds in Bhopal City

2016 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ms. Pooja Gupta
Keyword(s):  
Mutual Funds ◽  
Mutual Fund ◽  
Investment Option ◽  
Fund Industry ◽  
Mutual Fund Industry ◽  
The Impact

Mutual fund as an investment option still needs to be accepted by the investors as an instrument in their basket of investment. Presence of the mutual fund industry has been more than 5 decades old and yet efforts are made, to strive hard, for its existence and survival in the market. Despite that more than 1300 schemes are marketed to meet the investor objectives by 44 AMC’s in India, yet the industry is unable to gain the trust and satisfaction of investors. This paper attempts to evaluate the factors that contribute to investor dissatisfaction in Bhopal city and also the impact of dissatisfaction on the tenure of investment in mutual funds.

scholarly journals How Rational and Competitive Is the Market for Mutual Funds?*

2019 ◽  
Vol 24 (3) ◽  
pp. 579-613 ◽  
Author(s):  
Markus Leippold ◽  
Roger Rueegg
Keyword(s):  
Mutual Funds ◽  
Mutual Fund ◽  
Null Hypothesis ◽  
Economies Of Scale ◽  
Management Fees ◽  
Fund Industry ◽  
Mutual Fund Industry ◽  
Traditional Risk Factors ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Higher Sensitivity

Abstract To explore the rationality and competitiveness of the mutual fund industry, we analyze the alpha of active and index mutual funds from a global sample of more than 60,000 equity and fixed income funds and test the null hypothesis that alphas to investors are zero. We distinguish between institutional and retail investors since there are significant differences in management fees, economies of scale, and information asymmetries between these two groups. Using a new robust statistical test, we cannot reject our null hypothesis for the majority of investment categories. We find that the average active fund has less exposure to traditional risk factors, but higher sensitivity to alternative risk premia. Fund persistence and the impact of size and fees add further support to our conclusion that the mutual fund industry is highly competitive, except for US domestic funds. This set of funds is excessively overfunded compared with other fund categories.

scholarly journals FACTORS INFLUENCING THE INVESTORS TO INVEST IN MUTUAL FUNDS: AN EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (9) ◽  
pp. 45-52
Author(s):  
Bishwajit Rout ◽  
Sangeeta Mohanty
Keyword(s):  
Mutual Funds ◽  
Mutual Fund ◽  
Exchange Traded Funds ◽  
Equity Fund ◽  
Index Funds ◽  
Money Market Funds ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Fund Industry ◽  
Mutual Fund Industry

Indian mutual fund industry started with traditional products like equity fund, debt fund and balanced fund and later significantly increased it’s product base. Today, the industry has introduced a wide range of products such as money market funds, sector specific funds, index funds, gilt funds, insurance linked funds, exchange traded funds, and marching towards reality funds. The different types of schemes offered by the Indian mutual fund industry provide several options of investment to common man. What is noteworthy is that bulk of the mobilization has been by the private sector mutual funds rather than bank sponsored mutual funds. Through this paper the author has attempted to focus on the the factors that motivate the investors to invest in mutual funds.

A Study on the Performance of Indian Mutual Funds in Recent Years

2021 ◽  
pp. 428-444
Author(s):  
Dipika Varshney ◽  
Sowjanya Heblikar ◽  
Sunitha B K
Keyword(s):  
Mutual Funds ◽  
Empirical Research ◽  
Mutual Fund ◽  
Financial Industry ◽  
Indian Economy ◽  
Cause And Effect ◽  
Fund Industry ◽  
Mutual Fund Industry ◽  
And Performance

The Indian mutual fund industry is an integral part of the Indian financial industry. The mutual fund industry has a significant impact on the Indian economy. This study aims at understanding the growth and performance of mutual fund industry and understanding the cause and effect through empirical research. For this research, published papers have been studied and analysed to give a better understanding of the industry. This study records the performance of Indian mutual funds from the year 2015-2020. It analyses the performance of the debt, equity, and ETF mutual funds. The challenges are huge, but the investors have shown a matured behaviour. The 2020 pandemic has allowed investors to balance their portfolios by removing poor performing mutual fund holdings.

scholarly journals Performance and Persistence of Indian Mutual Fund Industry

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 5212-5216
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Growth Rate ◽  
Mutual Funds ◽  
Asset Management ◽  
Mutual Fund ◽  
Financial Literacy ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Household Sector ◽  
Fund Industry ◽  
Mutual Fund Industry

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.

scholarly journals A Comparative Study on Performance of Open and Close-ended Mutual Funds in Pakistan

2015 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 300
Author(s):  
Waqas Ahmad ◽  
Muhammad Sohaib Roomi ◽  
Muhammad Ramzan ◽  
Muhammad Zia-ur-Rehman ◽  
Sajjad Ahmad Baig
Keyword(s):  
Financial Crisis ◽  
Comparative Study ◽  
Mutual Funds ◽  
Mutual Fund ◽  
Portfolio Performance ◽  
Sample Period ◽  
Market Portfolio ◽  
Fund Industry ◽  
Mutual Fund Industry ◽  
Better Than

This paper is based on the comparison of Pakistani open-ended and close-ended mutual funds performance. That study focus on income, balance and equity schemes of open-ended and close-ended mutual funds. The performance of these funds evaluates using Sortino measure, Shrape measure, Treynor measure, Jenssen differtial measure and Inforamtion measure. The sample for the study consists of 73 funds from 2007 to 2012. Results show open-ended mutual funds performance is better than close-ended mutual funds. KSE (market portfolio) performance is grater over the all sample base mutual funds. Most risk adjusted funds returns are negative, which probably due to mutual fund industry set back by financial crisis during sample period.  

Mutual Funds

GIS Business ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 201-208
Author(s):  
Sonal Kumawat ◽  
Hemraj Kumawat ◽  
Vaishali Sharma ◽  
Pooja Verma ◽  
Priyanka
Keyword(s):  
Mutual Funds ◽  
Mutual Fund ◽  
Investment Decision ◽  
Indian Government ◽  
The Past ◽  
Adequate Knowledge ◽  
Investment Decision Making ◽  
Fund Industry ◽  
Mutual Fund Industry ◽  
Unit Trust

The Indian mutual fund industry witnessed a remarkable performance in the past 30 years. After independence, with the joint effort of the Indian government and the Reserve Bank of India, the establishment of Unit Trust of India marked the beginning of the mutual fund industry in India. With the opening of mutual fund industry in India, investors started taking the advantage of multiple investment opportunities. This leads to increase in savings to the funds along with banks. Mutual funds have given consistent favorable returns over the past year despite of slow growth. For making an investment in a highly sophisticated and complex financial market, investors need the support of financial experts to take an informed decision. These financial experts are mutual funds who act as an intermediary. Association of Mutual Funds in India is established to protect the interests of mutual funds along with its unit holders and to ensure the development of Indian mutual fund industry on ethical and professional lines. Today, investors prefers to invest in mutual funds amongst other investment options as mutual funds ensures protection of their interest by making an optimum investment decision making. Investment in mutual funds proved to be advantageous to those investors who are ready to take higher risk in order to earn higher return but they lack adequate knowledge of the market.

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