Mutual Fund Portfolios Successive Return Performance on Basis of Downside Risk Measures: An Empirical Study of Selected Equity Diversified Mutual Funds

Journal Title: Journal of Business Thought - Year 2014, Vol 4, Issue

Abstract

Thepresentstudyattemptstoevaluatedownsideriskmeasuresfortheequitydiversifiedmutualfunds.ThestudyrandomlyselectedtwelveequitydiversifiedmutualfundsandevaluatedvariousdownsideriskmeasuresnamelySemi-StandardDeviation,SortinoRatio,UpsidePotentialRatio,VolatilitySkewnessandHurstIndex.Anattemptismadetofurthercreatefourportfoliosofthreemutualfundschemes,eachonthebasisoftheresultsofdownsideriskmeasures.Theseportfoliosarecreatedfortwoyearsandareassessedontheiraveragemonthlyreturnperformanceinordertoassessthepredictabilityofdownsideriskmeasures.Noneoftheportfoliosarefoundtobesignificantlydifferentfromeachother,thereby,underminingtheimportanceofdownsideriskmeasureasapredictabletool formutualfundperformance.

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(2014). Mutual Fund Portfolios Successive Return Performance on Basis of Downside Risk Measures: An Empirical Study of Selected Equity Diversified Mutual Funds. Journal of Business Thought, 4(), 68-80. https://europub.co.uk/articles/-A-462960