Can Mutual Fund Predict the Future? An Empirical Study
Published: 2013
Author(s) Name: Subrata Roy, Shantanu Kumar Ghosh |
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Abstract
The present study seeks to examine the NAV performance of the selected open-ended mutual fund schemes in India. The study
also investigates whether the past return performance of the mutual funds may be used as a reliable indicator to predict the future return. To
accomplish these objectives, closing monthly NAV data on 56 open-ended income schemes are considered over a period from January 2001 to
December 2009. Then, we compute the average NAV and found a good consistency in performance. With a view to examine the consistency in
return performance of the selected mutual fund schemes, auto-regressive model is applied and observed that only 34 schemes out of 56 openended
income schemes have consistently influenced the return performance.
Keywords: Mutual Fund, Performance Evaluation, NAV, Open-Ended, Auto-Correlation.
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