COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF ICICI PRUDENTIAL SENSEX INDEX FUND WITH USA FIDELITY 500 INDEX FUND

COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF ICICI PRUDENTIAL SENSEX INDEX FUND  WITH USA FIDELITY 500 INDEX FUND

Mr. Siddharth Rewadikar

Research Scholar, Devi Ahilya Vishwavidyalaya, Indore, Madhya Pradesh, India

Dr. Gajendra Sirohi

Associate Professor, Acropolis Institute of Management Studies & Research, Indore, Madhya Pradesh, India

ABSTRACT
Mutual Funds today have gained a lot of popularity amongst investors and have become one of the preferred choices under the umbrella of investments but as we concentrate on Mutual Funds, for many of us it is a complicated element of investment related to returns, liquidity, position, or the standing of fund. If we look at the core of mutual funds, the money is invested or pooled by a large chunk of investors, that is what all about the basics of Mutual Funds. The qualified fund managers then professionally manage these funds. In nutshell we can conclude that Mutual Funds is a trust which collects money from a pool of investors who possess or share common objectives. This trust which is known as Mutual Funds invests the money collected from investors into a variety of securities which includes equities, bonds, money market instruments and other securities also. This study is a comparative analysis of the financial performance of ICICI Prudential Sensex Index Fund with USA Fidelity 500 Index Fund. Now-a-days many of the investors analyze the financial performance as well as the stability of the funds and this makes this element an essential one and because of the rapid increase in the investment avenues, stability, liquidity, and performance has become the greatest challenge in today’s investment era.

Keywords: Mutual Fund, Investment, Financial Performance, Stability, Investment Avenues