Study on the Economic Motives of Mutual Fund Investments and Its Comparison with Other Avenues of Investment

A study on investor preferences and economic motives of mutual fund investments

Abstract

Given the environment of competition today, there exists plethora of avenues for investment as available to different investors. Each mode of investment has its own set of advantages along with disadvantages. The investor seeks the maintain the benefits along with shortcomings of each mode of investment prior investing. Of all the different modes of investment, Mutual Fund is one that is highly suitable for men, since it lays down bundle of opportunities to invest in the professionally and in a managed portfolio at a cost that is relatively low. In the paper, steps have been taken to study the avenue of investment as taken by the investor’s km Mathura, and so we try to study the preference of investor’s towards Mutual funds investment even when there are multiple opportunities present in the market.