International Journal of Research in Social Sciences

  • Year: 2018
  • Volume: 8
  • Issue: 5

Investor's perceptions of sectors equity mutual fund in India

  • Author:
  • B. Megharaja1, C.I. Chalawadi2
  • Total Page Count: 20
  • DOI:
  • Page Number: 9 to 28

1Assistant Professor and Research Scholar, Department of Studies and Research in Commerce, Vijayanagara Sri Krishnadevaraya University, Jnanasagara Campus, Vinayaka Nagar-Bellary. Karnataka State, India

2Research Guide and Assistant Professor, Department of Studies and Research in Commerce,Vijayanagara Sri Krishnadevaraya University, Post Graduate Centre, Yelburga (Post & Tq), Koppal (Dist), Karnataka (State)

Abstract

Investment takes vital role in the present economy for the movements of inflations rate year by year due to the changes in the rules and regulations of the Indian government to the changes of ruling party once in five years, therefore the investors indented to make their money safety and maintain with same values for the future. Hence investors make savings through the sacrifice their day to day activities for the sake of future benefits. In the present economy have different investment avenues in India such as Post office savings, bank deposit, insurance, securities market, real estate, mutual funds and gold etc. In these avenues few of them high risk and return, low risk and low returns, but some avenues require knowledge for deployment of savings except mutual fund. A mutual fund managed by the professionals, the study was conducted to know the investor who belongs to Bellary district, who actively participated investing in mutual fund, their perceptions on sectors equity mutual fund in India. The study data analysed and interpreted of questionnaire through the statistical tools. Hence the researcher attempted to know the investors’ perceptions of sectors equity mutual fund in India.

Keywords

Descriptive statistics, one sample t test, Chi-square test etc