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Investor Behaviour and the Persistence of Poorly Performing Mutual Funds: Evidence from India


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1 Department of Commerce, Kanchi Mamunivar Centre for PG Studies, Puducherry, India
2 Department of Commerce, Pondicherry University, Puducherry, India
     

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This paper examines how consistently underperforming mutual funds are able to persist nevertheless and also analyses whether the investors choose funds on the basis of past risk-adjusted returns or investors react to recent returns without considering the predictive validity of returns. The study is based on growth funds of all open ended equity schemes for a period of 10 years, i.e., from 1st April 2001 to 31st March 2011 and evaluates the performance of mutual funds based on 25 selected schemes. Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM) and models suggested by Sharpe, Treynor, and Jensen Measure were used. The study reveals that the investors are concentrating on the recent return and focusing on the future performance by ignoring the risk involved in it. The paper concludes that though the risk is high, the underperforming funds are able to survive nevertheless into the market.

Keywords

Behavioural Finance, Capital Asset Pricing Model, Growth Schemes, Investment Decision, Jensen's Alpha, Performance Evaluation, Sharpe Ratio, Treynor Ratio.
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Authors

Karunanithy Banumathy
Department of Commerce, Kanchi Mamunivar Centre for PG Studies, Puducherry, India
Malabika Deo
Department of Commerce, Pondicherry University, Puducherry, India
Ramachandran Azhagaiah
Department of Commerce, Kanchi Mamunivar Centre for PG Studies, Puducherry, India

Abstract


This paper examines how consistently underperforming mutual funds are able to persist nevertheless and also analyses whether the investors choose funds on the basis of past risk-adjusted returns or investors react to recent returns without considering the predictive validity of returns. The study is based on growth funds of all open ended equity schemes for a period of 10 years, i.e., from 1st April 2001 to 31st March 2011 and evaluates the performance of mutual funds based on 25 selected schemes. Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM) and models suggested by Sharpe, Treynor, and Jensen Measure were used. The study reveals that the investors are concentrating on the recent return and focusing on the future performance by ignoring the risk involved in it. The paper concludes that though the risk is high, the underperforming funds are able to survive nevertheless into the market.

Keywords


Behavioural Finance, Capital Asset Pricing Model, Growth Schemes, Investment Decision, Jensen's Alpha, Performance Evaluation, Sharpe Ratio, Treynor Ratio.

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