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Impacts of economic events on performance of mutual funds: evidence from india
, Amit Sinha Kumar
Published in
2013
Volume: 1
   
Issue: 1
Pages: 1 - 17
Abstract
mutual funds in India using event study methodology. For the calculation of impact, Researcher has selected two mutual fund schemes (ICICI Prudential Balanced fund- Direct Plan- Growth & ICICI Prudential Dynamic-Direct Plan- Growth). This methodology addresses the problems of multiple event days and calendar clustering. The economic event considered for the research are recent global or cross border event (BREXIT- Britain Exit from the European Union.) and Domestic event (GST- Goods and Services Tax). For the event study the event window of 11 days (i.e. 5 business days before and 5 business days after the event day including event day) will consider for abnormal return and estimation window of 11 days consider for normal return. The time gap for Normal and Abnormal return is 180 days. The event date of BREXIT has taken 24th June 2016 (National declaration of the European Union referendum result) and for GST has taken 03rd August 2016 (GST Amendment Bill passed in Rajya Sabha). In the proposed research Endeavour, researcher's shall made an attempt to identify that holder of equity mutual funds may earn abnormal return in response to above mentioned events and in the given period of time.
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