Abstract
Mutual Fund is a choice of investment for the small investors to invest in capital market through skillful professional management. The research paper attempts to validate the Capital Asset Pricing Model and Fama French 3-Factors Model and their preferred suitability in measuring and evaluating the mutual fund performance in Pakistan. The month wise data of one hundred open ended Pakistani mutual funds for the period from 2009 to 2015 is analyzed by both models. The Capital Asset Pricing Model showed significance results for all the portfolios; however the intercepts of this model were found increasing in size, showing poor performance for the high performance portfolios. The Fama French 3-factors model demonstrated poor results for two factors i.e. fund size and fund value, however the market factor showed significant coefficients for all the portfolios. The Gibbon Ross Shanken test was applied to find the best model between the two competing models. This test results revealed that Capital Asset Pricing Model is the preferred model between the two competing models.

Alam Rehman, Qadar Bakhsh Baloch. (2016) Evaluating Pakistan’s Mutual Fund Performance: Validating through CAPM and Fama French 3-Factor Model, Journal of Managerial Sciences, Volume 10, Issue 1.
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