• Priya Raman

This article focuses on the mutual fund industry's whole experience in India. Its beginnings, its growth and fall through the years, and an attempt to forecast what the future may contain for Mutual Fund Investors in the long term. A mutual fund, often known as an investment firm, is a kind of investment vehicle that combines the funds of a number of participants. The money collected is used by the fund's management to buy assets such as stocks and bonds. The portfolio of the fund refers to the securities bought. The emergence of money market and (short-term) bond funds may have been aided by restrictions on rival products. This research looked at and compared the performance of several kinds of mutual funds in India, and found that equities funds outperformed income funds. This research also found that although equities fund managers have considerable market timing skills and institutional fund managers can time their investments, broker-operated funds do not. Furthermore, it has been shown experimentally that fund managers can time their investments to market circumstances and have considerable timing skill. The mutual fund industry in India has grown rapidly and gained a lot of popularity in the last couple of decades, especially after incorporate mutual funds and which of the modes they prefer to get knowledge about mutual funds, so a study was done to make the above discussion more strong, so 30 research papers and two theses were taken with respect to the topic concerned. The area of factors influencing investors' behavior when investing in, and withdrawing from, mutual funds has been covered by a small number of researchers. Here are some of the authors who worked on this area and came up with good results. These papers were accessed from ENSCO, SSRN, National Digital Library, Shodhganga, and ENSCO

Mutual Fund Industry, India, Equity Fund, Money Market

"A Review on Mutual Funds", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 8, page no.509-513, August-2018, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIRFR06103.pdf

"A Review on Mutual Funds", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 8, page no. pp509-513, August-2018, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIRFR06103.pdf