Mutual fund is a mechanism for pooling the resources by issuing units to the investors and investing funds in securities in accordance with their objectives. Investors need to know how risky individual assets are and what their contribution to the total risk of a portfolio would be. Plenty of...

This paper evaluates the performance of 6 Indian banks by using CAMEL method. HDFC bank is rated 1st and performing well among its peers, on the other hand Bank of India is rated 3rd and needs attention of supervisors. Discriminant analysis is used in this paper and finds out the important...

This paper seeks to examine the level of inequalities in flow of agriculture credit to farmers of different farm classes and also the regional disparity prevailing in flow of agriculture credit in India. Analysis of inclusiveness of formal credit delivery reveals that there exist widespread...

This study attempts to investigate the growth of banks operating in India. The study is based on the sample of 30 commercial banks over the period of 2000-2009. The results shows that the groups of leading banks identified generally grew less than that of group II and grew faster than that of...

Risk and return plays an important role in making any investment decisions. Decision include investment should be done or not and which securities should be included in portfolio. Determining efficient portfolios within an asset class (e.g., stocks) can be achieved with the single index (beta)...