Benchmarking of Indian mutual funds is mostly based on ratio approach involving methodologies suggested by Sharpe and Treynor. The present paper employs Bootstrap Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) for evaluating the performance of a few sectoral mutual fund schemes for the second half of 2010. The...

The traditional approach of portfolio benchmarking was developed by Markowitz (1952) with his Mean-Variance (M-V) model. The emergence of Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM), however, led to the introduction of indices provided by Sharpe (1966), Treynor (1965) and Jensen (1968). Nevertheless,...

There was a paradigm shift in the competition scenario of the Indian commercial banking sector as a consequence of the initiation of banking sector reforms and opening up of the banking sector to the foreign participants in a gradual fashion. The present paper benchmarks the performance of...

Performance analysis of mutual funds operating in the Indian markets are mostly dependent on ratio aproach involving methodologies suggested by Sharpe and Treynor. The present paper makes use of non-parametric endogenous benchmarking to evaluate the performance of 16 top performing sectoral...