IJIRST –International Journal for Innovative Research in Science & Technology| Volume 2 | Issue 11 | April 2016

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A Study on Performance Evaluation of Mutual

Funds Schemes in India
N. Bhagyasree Mrs. B. Kishori
PG Student Assistant Professor
Department of Management Studies Department of Management Studies
Anna University (BIT Campus), Tiruchirappalli, Tamil Nadu, Anna University (BIT Campus), Tiruchirappalli, Tamil Nadu,
India India

Abstract
The present paper investigates the performance of open-ended, growth-oriented equity schemes for the period from April 2011 to
March 2015 of transition economy. Daily closing NAV of different schemes have been used to calculate the returns from the fund
schemes. BSE-sensex has been used for market portfolio. The historical performance of the selected schemes were evaluated on
the basis of Sharpe, Treynor, and Jensen’s measure whose results will be useful for investors for taking better investment decisions.
The study revealed that 14 out of 30 mutual fund schemes had outperformed the benchmark return. The results also showed that
some of the schemes had underperformed; these schemes were facing the diversification problem. In the study, the Sharpe ratio
was positive for all schemes which showed that funds were providing returns greater than risk free rate. Results of Jensen measure
revealed that 19 out of 30 schemes were showed positive alpha which indicated superior performance of the schemes.
Keywords: Jensen measure, Mutual funds, performance evaluation, Sharpe measure, Treynor measure
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I. INTRODUCTION
Mutual Fund is a trust that pools money from investors by selling shares of the fund like any other type of company that sells stock
to the public. The raised money is used in different securities like stocks, bonds, money markets & commodities. Each mutual fund
has common financial goal and the money is invested in accordance with the objective. Fund is managed by a professional fund
manager, who is responsible for implementing a fund's investing strategy and managing its portfolio trading activities. Each
investor in the mutual fund participates proportionally (based upon the number of shares owned) in the gain or loss of the fund.
Any investor can invest minimum amount that is affordable and diversify their portfolio in different sectors depending upon their
interests and risks.

II. LITERATURE REVIEW

The present study deals with the review of literature on ‘Evaluating the Performance of Indian Mutual Fund Schemes’. Review of
some of the studies is presented in the following discussion.
A Study of performance of mutual fund has become more controversial. Conversely Rajesh Kumar, Rituraj Chandrakar( 2012)
evaluates the performance of 29 open-ended, growth-oriented equity schemes for the period from April 2005 to March 2011 (six
years) of transition economy. The study revealed that 14 out of 29 (48.28 percent) sample mutual fund schemes had outperformed
the benchmark return. The results also showed that some of the schemes had underperformed; these schemes were facing the
diversification problem. Dr.R.Narayanasamy, v.rathnamani, (2013) evaluate the performance of selected equity large cap mutual
funds schemes in terms of risk- return relationship . The performance analyse of the selected five equity are large cap funds. The
study may conclude that all the funds have performed well in the high volatile market movement expect Reliance vision.
Dr.S.Narayanrao,(2003) evaluate the performance evaluation of Indian mutual funds in a bear market is carried out through relative
performance index. The results of performance measures suggest that most of the mutual fund schemes in the sample of 58 were
able to satisfied investor’s expectations by giving excess returns over expected returns based on both low-grade for systematic risk
and total risk. Suchitashukla (2015) analyzed the financial performance in terms of risk –return relationship of selected mutual
fund schemes (5 categories ×3 mutual fund= 15 schemes). The study reveals that Overall the mutual funds have given better returns
than the benchmark in the above period subject to infrastructure fund in year 2013. Sahiljain ( 2012) evaluate the performance of
equity based mutual funds. A total of 45 schemes offered by 2 private sector companies and 2 public sector companies, have been
studied over the period April 1997 to April 2012 (15 years). The analysis has been made using the risk-return relationship and
Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM). The overall analysis finds that HDFC and ICICI have been the best performers, UTI an
average performer and LIC the worst performer which gave below- expected returns on the risk-return relationship.
Dr.Shriprakashsoni, Dr.Deepalibankapue, Dr.maheshbhutada, (2015)comparative analysis of mutual fund schemes available at
kotak mutual fund and HDFC mutual fund. The study conclude that Kotak Mutual Fund schemes are more destructive in Large
Cap Equity schemes and HDFC Mutual Fund schemes are more destructive in Mid Cap Equity schemes where as both the
companies schemes are very well managed in debt market. Kotak Select Focus is the best scheme in Large cap Equity, HDFC

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Mid-Cap is the best scheme in Mid-Cap sector and HDFC Balanced Fund is the best scheme in Balanced Fund for investment.
Dr.R.karrupasamy,Mrs.v.vanaja, (2014) This study reveals that majority of the public sector schemes selected for the study
outperformed the category average and also benchmark indices and majority of the diversified schemes performed well on the
basis of performance index. Dr.Vikaskumar (2011) analysed of the open ended schemes shows that out of twenty five schemes
namely Reliance Growth Fund, Reliance Vision Fund, ICICI Prudential Tax Plan, HDFC Top 200 and Birla Sun Life Equity Fund,
performs better in comparison to benchmark index BSE-100 index in terms of monthly average return and risk involved in these
schemes less then benchmark. Kalpesh.p.prajapati,mahesh.k.patel( 2012) It evaluate the Indian mutual funds is carried out through
relative performance index, risk-return analysis, Sharp's measure, Jensen's measure, and Fama's measure. All selected mutual fund
companies have positive return during 2007 to 2011. HDFC and Reliance mutual fund have performed well as compared to the
Sensex return. ICICI prudential and UTI Mutual fund has lower level of risk compare to HDFC and Reliance mutual fund. Tej
singh,priyanka( 2014) analysed the private sector of mutual funds are gaining more in terms of scale of mobilization of funds
compared to that of public sector mutual funds. The study reveals that the private sector mutual funds are gaining more in terms
of scale of mobilization of funds compared to that of public sector. The gap is reaching up to 81 percent in 2003-04 from 31 percent
in 1998-99 and finally settled at 54 percent in 2009-10

III. OBJECTIVE OF THE STUDY

1) To evaluate the performance of selected open ended schemes on mutual funds in India.
2) To measure the risk- return relationship and market volatility of the selected mutual funds.
3) To examine the performance of selected schemes by using portfolio performance evaluation model namely Sharpe, Treynore
and Jensen.

IV. RESEARCH METHODOLOGY

To examine the mutual fund schemes performance, 30 schemes were selected at random basis. Daily closing NAV of different
schemes have been used in this study for the period of five years i.e., April 2011 to March 2015(five years).S&P BSE-Sensex has
been used for market portfolio. In the study the monthly yield on 91-day Treasury bills have been used as risk-free rate. The study
was mainly secondary data based. Data regarding NAV were obtained from the web site of www.mutualfundindia.com and
www.amfiindia.com for the period of April 2011 to March 2015. Data for Daily closing price for the benchmark index (S&P BSE-
Sensex) were collected from web site of Bombay Stock Exchange (www.bseindia.com).

V. TOOLS AND TECHNIQUES USED

Analysis has been done by using following statistical tools.
1) Sharpe ratio: It indicates the risk-return performance of portfolio.
Portfolio Average Return (Rp) – Risk Free Rate of Return (Rf)
Sharpe Index = _________________________________________________
Standard Deviations of the Portfolio Return
2) Treynor ratio: It measure the returns earned in excess of that which could have been earned on investment that has no
diversifiable risk.
Portfolio Average Return (Rp) - Risk Free Rate of Return (Rf)
Treynor Index = ________________________________________________
Beta Coefficient of Portfolio
3) Jensen ratio: It measures the risk-adjusted performance of a security or portfolio in relation to the expected market return.
Alpha (α) = (Rx - Rf) - β(Rm - Rf)
4) Beta: It measures the volatility or systematic risk of a security with comparison to the market as a whole.
Beta is calculated as,
Covariance (Rx, Rm)
β = ________________________
Variance (Rm).
5) Standard deviation: It shows the historical volatility.
√Σ(Rx-Rx¯ )²
σx = __________________
N

VI. RESULT AND ANALYSIS

Inference
Table-I represents the results of return, risk, beta of selected schemes with benchmark return and risk. It shows
competency of these schemes to make out a strong case for investment. The maximum return was from Tata

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equity opportunities fund and minimum return was from Reliance growth fund. In the context of risk, it found
from the table that schemes had less risky than market risk and remaining schemes have risk greater than the
market risk. In the context of beta, it is observed from the table 1 that out of 30 schemes, only 8 schemes have
registered a beta value greater than one indicated that they belonged to more risk category. The remaining 22
schemes have registered beta less than one which indicated that they belonged to low risk category.
Table – 1
Return, risk, beta of diversified equity schemes
S.NO SCHEMES SCHEMES RETURN SCHEMES RISK BETA
1 BRILA SUN LIFE INDIA GEnNEXT FUND 0.0202 0.0824 0.8917
2 BRILA SUN LIFE ADVANTAGE FUND 0.0153 0.0894 0.5426
3 BRILA SUN LIFE EQUITY FUND 0.0167 0.0683 0.8056
4 BRILA SUN LIFE LONG TERM ADVANTAGE FUND 0.0166 0.0826 0.6730
5 BRILA SUN LIFE DIVIDEND YIELD PLUS 0.0210 0.0738 0.7843
6 BRILA SUN LIFE FRONTLINE EQUITY FUND 0.0222 0.0672 0.7868
7 BRILA SUN LIFE TOP 100 FUND 0.0234 0.0879 0.7564
8 TATA ETHICAL FUND 0.0176 0.0799 0.8674
9 TATA DIVIDEND YIELD FUND 0.0185 0.0852 0.9142
10 TATA EQUITY OPPORTUNITIES FUND 0.0245 0.0787 1.0312
11 TATA EQUTIY PE FUND 0.0217 0.0799 0.9952
12 RELIANCE VISION FUND 0.0163 0.0856 0.9642
13 RELIANCE GROWTH FUND 0.0138 0.0824 0.9082
14 RELIANCE EQUITY OPPORTUNITES FUND 0.0194 0.0918 1.0212
15 RELIANCE REGULAR SAVINGS FUND EQUITY 0.0215 0.0953 0.9792
16 UTI DIVIDEND YIELD FUND 0.0158 0.0919 0.6052
17 UTI MNC FUND 0.0201 0.0757 0.8695
18 SBI CONTRA FUND 0.0223 0.0879 0.6972
19 SBI MAGNUM MULTICAP FUND 0.0156 0.0927 0.9881
20 SBI MAGNUM MULTIPLIER FUND 0.0191 0.0885 0.9734
21 HDFC CAPITAL BUILDER FUND 0.0187 0.0847 0.9651
22 HDFC CORE AND SATELLITTE FUND 0.0197 0.0846 0.8263
23 HDFC EQUITY FUND 0.0210 0.0924 0.8941
24 HDFC GROWTH FUND 0.0214 0.0789 0.8754
25 HDFC LARGE CAP FUND 0.0159 0.0974 0.9653
26 HDFC PREMIER MID CAP FUND 0.0214 0.0867 0.8654
27 AXIS EQUITY FUND 0.0162 0.0845 0.7827
28 FRANKLIN INDIA FLEXI CAP FUND 0.0202 0.0976 0.8932
29 FRANKLIN INDIA HIGH GROWTH COMPANIES FUND 0.0234 0.0766 0.9456
30 FRANKLIN INDIA PRIMA PLUS 0.0214 0.0935 0.9534
S&P BSE SENSEX INDEX 0.0198 0.0851 1.00

Inference
Table 2 represents the result of Sharpe measure and Treynor measure. It is observed from the table 2 that higher
positive value of Sharpe measure was found in Tata Equity opportunities funds (2.2761) which followed by HDFC
large cap fund (1.8904) and Franklin India flexi cap fund (1.8296). In the study, the Sharpe ratio was positive for all
schemes which showed that funds were providing returns greater than risk free rate. It also found from the table
that 14 out of 30 schemes have better Sharpe ratios in comparison to the benchmark portfolios.
In the context of Treynor measure, it is revealed for the table 2 that 9 schemes, out of 30 had outperformed the
benchmark. HDFC growth fund is the top performer which followed by HDFC equity fund. It also found from the table
that 8 out of 30 schemes have better Treynor ratios in comparison to the benchmark portfolios.
In the Jensen measures of the mutual fund schemes. Results of Jensen measure revealed that 12 out of 30
schemes were showed positive alpha which indicated superior performance of the schemes and remaining 18
schemes had negative alphas. Among the entire schemes higher alpha was found with Franklin India High Growth
Companies Fund followed by Franklin India Flexi Cap Fund.
Table – 1
Ranking of sample schemes on the basis of sharpe, treynor, jensen measure(april 2011 to march 2015)
S.NO SCHEMES SHARPE RANK TREYNOR RANK JENSEN RANK
1 BRILA SUN LIFE INDIA GEnNEXT FUND 0.02022 26 0.012652 16 0.17119 19
2 BRILA SUN LIFE ADVANTAGE FUND -0.01756 27 0.906578 5 0.82461 3
3 BRILA SUN LIFE EQUITY FUND 0.55158 18 0.96596 3 0.13133 22

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4 BRILA SUN LIFE LONG TERM ADVANTAGE FUND 1.100022 9 0.196902 14 0.12516 23
5 BRILA SUN LIFE DIVIDEND YIELD PLUS 0.5229442 19 0.813183 7 0.59618 6
6 BRILA SUN LIFE FRONTLINE EQUITY FUND 1.445228 5 -1.84073 24 0.21352 17
7 BRILA SUN LIFE TOP 100 FUND 1.494658 4 0.853841 6 0.22442 16
8 TATA ETHICAL FUND 0.305555 21 0.205479 13 0.67432 5
9 TATA DIVIDEND YIELD FUND 0.841521 14 -1.46347 23 0.72131 4
10 TATA EQUITY OPPORTUNITIES FUND 2.27613 1 0.2805541 9 0.32145 11
11 TATA EQUTIY PE FUND 0.0205479 25 -1.462358 22 0.21032 18
12 RELIANCE VISION FUND 0.077502 24 -1.4537 21 0.27482 12
13 RELIANCE GROWTH FUND 1.190525 6 0.9208 4 0.07024 26
14 RELIANCE EQUITY OPPORTUNITES FUND 1.03373 10 0.23456 11 0.3218 9
15 RELIANCE REGULAR SAVINGS FUND EQUITY -5.12345 30 -2.00112 25 0.1235 25
16 UTI DIVIDEND YIELD FUND 0.921218 12 -0.71826 20 0.22361 15
17 UTI MNC FUND -1.394700 29 -0.150581 18 0.0245 27
18 SBI CONTRA FUN 0.775206 15 -9.40316 30 0.3215 19
19 SBI MAGNUM MULTICAP FUND 0.976892 11 -6.28573 29 0.1245 24
20 SBI MAGNUM MULTIPLIER FUND 0.726546 16 0.520828 8 0.4521 7
21 HDFC CAPITAL BUILDER FUND 0.8834 13 -0.5632 19 0.23211 14
22 HDFC CORE AND SATELLITTE FUND -0.4340 28 0.2317 12 0.02341 28
23 HDFC EQUITY FUND 0.35170 20 1.2610 2 0.0215 30
24 HDFC GROWTH FUND 0.2679 22 1.7831 1 0.1387 21
25 HDFC LARGE CAP FUND 1.8904 2 -0.1348 17 0.1423 20
26 HDFC PREMIER MID CAP FUND 0.6789 17 0.2361 10 0.3452 8
27 AXIS EQUITY FUND AXIS FOCUSED 25 FUND 0.12013 23 0.01997 15 0.0234 29
28 FRANKLIN INDIA FLEXI CAP FUND 1.82966 3 -2.1219 26 0.8943 2
29 FRANKLIN INDIA HIGH GROWTH COMPANIES FUND 1.08352 8 -2.2191 27 0.9972 1
30 FRANKLIN INDIA PRIMA PLUS 1.15088 7 -6.0986 28 0.2345 13
S&P BSE SENSEX 0.932 0.853 0.522

VII. CONCLUSION
The present paper investigates the performance of 30 open-ended, diversified equity schemes for the period from
April 2011 to March 2015 (five years) of transition economy. Daily closing NAV of different schemes have been
used to calculate the returns from the fund schemes. S&P BSE-sensex has been used for market portfolio. The
historical performance of the selected schemes were evaluated on the basis of Sharpe, Treynor, and Jensen’s
measure whose results will be useful for investors for taking better investment decisions. Results of the study
showed that that 14 out of 30 sample mutual fund schemes had outperformed the benchmark return. All the
schemes have represented positive returns. The results also showed that Reliance Regular Savings Fund Equity, SBI
Contra Fund, HDFC Equity Fund of the schemes had underperformed, these schemes were facing the diversification
problem. In the study, the Sharpe ratio was positive for all schemes which showed that funds were providing
returns greater than risk free rate.

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