The Mutual Funds provides alternative opportunities to investors with benefits of diversification and professional research back up. Once the objectives of investment and associated constraints have been identified, the Fund Managers could select an efficient portfolio. The Fund Managers...

The Mutual Funds Industry is one of the fast growing sectors in India since the initiation of economic reforms in 1991. The rapid growth of Mutual Funds has compelled the researchers to take a deeper look into the performance of Mutual Funds, taking into account the expectations of investors,...

Fractal Analysis assesses the fractal characteristics of data. It consists of several methods to assign a fractal dimension and other fractal characteristics in a data set which may be a theoretical data set or a pattern of signals extracted from phenomena including natural geometric objects,...

Mergers, acquisitions and corporate control have emerged as major forces in the modern financial and economic environment. The mergers and acquisitions in India have changed dramatically after the liberalization of Indian economy. To assess the impact of an “event” announcement of a tender...

Calendar Anomalies in the stock market are those patterns that cannot be explained by traditional asset pricing models. Examples of such patterns include the January Effect, the Day-of-the-Week Effect, and the Week of the Month Effects. These anomalies allow investors to develop trading...

Any anomaly, including January Anomaly, would enable the investors and speculators to gain abnormal returns. The presence of January Anomaly defeats the basic premises of the efficient market hypothesis. Besides, it has greater implications for the design of investment strategy in the long run....

The aim of this study is to investigate the co-movements and dynamic linkages, between stock prices in emerging equity markets and exchange rates in currency markets of Asia, for eight countries, namely, China, India, Indonesia, Korea, Malaysia, Philippines, Taiwan and Thailand, by estimating...