• Dr. Amish B. Soni
• Ms. Nidhi Panchal
• Ms. Lakshmi Pannikkassery

The growth of the Mutual Fund Industry in India has created its edge in the personal finance industry in India and has opened up opportunities to investors in order to diversify the investments across assets. Mutual Fund industry plays a key role in the Indian Financial Sector. Investing in mutual fund has seen an upfront growth in India because of the nature of this instrument. Mutual fund is a type of financial intermediary that empowers million small as well as large investors across the country to participate and invest in capital market and derive benefits from it. The Average Assets Under Management (AAUM) of Indian Mutual Fund Industry for the month of February 2022 stood at Rs. 38,56,140 crore. The AUM size crossed Rs. 30 trillion (Rs.30 Lakh Crore) for the first time in November 2020. The Industry AUM stood at Rs.37.56 Trillion (Rs. 37.56 Lakh Crore) as on February 28, 2022.The total number of accounts (or folios as per mutual fund parlance) as on February 28, 2022 stood at 12.61 crore (126.1 million). This study helps to understand the comparative performance of Equity, Debt and Hybrid Mutual Fund schemes, measure the volatility and return relationship, risk and return analysis of selected mutual fund by various financial tools like: SD, Beta, Treynor, Sharpe, Jensen, Information ratio and correlation between fund and index return.

Mutual Fund, Beta, Sharpe ratio, Jensen ratio, Treynor ratio, Information ratio, Performance evaluation, Investments, Risk & Return, Capital Market, Equity funds, Debt funds, Hybrid funds, NAV, AMC, SIP, AUM.

"A COMPARATIVE STUDY ON PERFORMANCE OF EQUITY, DEBT AND HYBRID MUTUAL FUNDS IN INDIA", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.9, Issue 5, page no.f491-f498, May-2022, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2205668.pdf

"A COMPARATIVE STUDY ON PERFORMANCE OF EQUITY, DEBT AND HYBRID MUTUAL FUNDS IN INDIA", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.9, Issue 5, page no. ppf491-f498, May-2022, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2205668.pdf