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Mutual Fund Industry in India - An Empirical Analysis
The purpose of this study is to examine the growth in the Indian Mutual Fund industry. The data
used for the study is secondary. The first part sets out the introduction and Evaluation of the
mutual fund industry and various regulatory drives taken by the Securities and Exchange Board
of India (SEBI). The part second discusses the resource mobilization by the Indian mutual fund
industry and how the industry build-up with the intercontinental mutual fund industry. The last part
of the current study provides some concluding observations, that the mutual fund industry in India
is maturing with the largescale investors and increasing geographical area. While the penetration
of the mutual fund industry in India, as measured by the Assets Under Management (AUM)/GDP
ratio, is still low compared with the global average.
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