Performance Analysis of the Index Mutual Fund
Author : Yasmeen Bano and S. VasanthaVolume 8 No.1 January-March 2019 pp 1-5
Abstract
A mutual fund is a professionally managed investment fund that pools together the savings of a number of investors who shares the common financial goals. These investors may be retail or institutional in nature. It offers small or individual investors access to professionally managed portfolios of equities, bonds and other securities. The paper is the study of the performance of Index fund. This is analyzed empirically since the period of 2012 – 2017. The main objective of this research is to evaluate the performance of Index funds. The study examined three parameters such as active returns, tracking error and Jensen’s alpha. In this paper the data has been collected from the secondary sources.
Keywords
Financial Performance, Index Fund, Risk Adjusted Return, Tracking Error
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