The paper attempts to measure the relationship between risk and return, and the effect of diversification on non-market risk in Indian stock market by applying Market Index Model. For the analysis monthly adjusted opening and closing prices of composite portfolio of BSE 100 companies, for the...

Prediction of price fluctuations has always been interesting for academicians, practitioners and investors. However, price fluctuations can never be exactly predicted, but some trends can be drawn in price fluctuations. The first landmark in stock pricing was Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM)...

The volatile behavior of price of capital assets is always interesting for different stakeholders of capital markets. It is fluctuation in the price of the asset which is responsible for the capital gain or loss of the investor. What a sensible investor wants, is a model that will predict the...