This study utilizes few selected performance evaluation techniques on a sample of 36 Indian mutual fund schemes, over the period of January 2001 to September 2009. The broad based S&P CNX NIFTY is used in the study as a benchmark. The study measures the performance using Capital Asset Pricing...

Proponents of Semi strong form of Efficient Market Hypothesis (EMH) claim that security prices fully reflect all publicly available information in a rapid and unbiased manner. Opponents of this Hypothesis question its validity by explaining various anomalies in stock markets. One such anomaly...

One of the most important developments in the field of finance during last forty years is the mutual fund performance evaluation technique. The traditional techniques use the unconditional moments of the returns. Such techniques cannot capture the time-varying element of expected return. As a...

This paper calculates the Performance Change measure (PCM) developed by Grinblatt amp; Titman (Journal of Business, 1993, vol. 66, no. 1)for a sample of 50 Indian mutual funds over a period of 26 months. PCM as a measure has some advantages compared to the traditional measures, the most...