• Rishika Parihar
• Prof. Manmohan Vyas

Mutual funds allow for portfolio diversification and relative risk aversion through collection of funds from the households and investment of the same in the stock and debt markets. Fixed- Income Funds in India are a kind of mutual fund which makes investment in debt securities that have been issued either by the companies, banks, or government. Fixed Income Funds in India are also known as debt funds and income funds. Using various statistical measures, the present study aims to evaluating the performance of a few selected income or debt mutual funds schemes of India on the basis of their daily NAV. Popularity of income schemes has only increased in the last decade. Income mutual funds they have seen tremendous growth in their number of schemes from 91 on 31st march 2011 to 330 on 31st march 2020. 506 in 2008 was the maximum ever in terms of total schemes floating in the market. This category has seen a decline only twice in the last decade. First fall was posted in the year 2010 and the second fall was reported in the year 2020. One striking fact which comes to light is the huge percentage contribution of income schemes towards the total AUM of the Indian mutual funds industry.

A Study on performance evaluation of various mutual fund schemes in India

"A Study on performance evaluation of various mutual fund schemes in India ", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 8, page no.1112-1117, August-2018, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1809A66.pdf

"A Study on performance evaluation of various mutual fund schemes in India ", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 8, page no. pp1112-1117, August-2018, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1809A66.pdf