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Nexus amongst Holding Period, Returns and Risk for Mutual Funds (A Case from India)

The Journal of Accounting and Management

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Title Nexus amongst Holding Period, Returns and Risk for Mutual Funds (A Case from India)
 
Creator Mishra, Pranav
Sharma, Hari Prapan
 
Subject Mutual fund, investor, investment time horizon, Sharpe ratio
 
Description Every individual should have savings for the old age and the future uncertainties. However as all individuals come from different backgrounds and thus all of them cannot be expected to have knowledge of finance and investment concepts. In such a situation the best investment avenue available is the mutual fund. But, here also the investors because of their ignorance tend to rely heavily on financial advisors and follow the age old maxims without testing them by themselves. This paper aims to empirically test one of such maxim which states that stretching the investment time horizon would lead to better results in terms of increased returns and reduced risks. This work would be of interest not only to the academicians, students and researchers but also to the industry experts and anybody having general inclination to the subject of mutual fund. It is shown that the investment time period has some nexus with both the risk as well as the returns. The paper used Sharpe ratio to evaluate the performance of the funds at different time span.
 
Publisher The Journal of Accounting and Management
 
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Date 2017-03-26
 
Type Peer-reviewed Article
 
Format application/pdf
 
Identifier http://journals.univ-danubius.ro/index.php/jam/article/view/3329
 
Source The Journal of Accounting and Management; Vol 6, No 3 (2016): JAM
 
Language en
 
Rights The author fully assumes the content originality and the holograph signature makes him responsible in case of trial.