Comparative Performance Analysis of Public Sector Sponsored and Private Sector Sponsored Mutual Funds in India

The concept of mutual funds in India dates back to the year 1963. The era between 1963 and 1987 marked the existence of only one mutual fund Company in India, namely the Unit Trust of India (UTI), with Rs. 67 billion assets under management (AUM). Few other mutual fund companies entered the mutual fund market later on. The private sector funds started penetrating the fund families during 1993. Kothari Pioneer was the first private sector mutual fund company in India which has now merged with Franklin Templeton. By the end of 1993, the total AUM of the industry was Rs. 470. 04 billion. Just after ten years with private sector penetration, the total assets rose up to Rs. 1218. 05 billion and till 2004, it reached the height of 1540 billion. The total AUM of the mutual fund industry has risen up to 14000 billion in April, 2016. Today there are 43 mutual funds in India offering a number of schemes suited to the needs of different type of customers. It has been noticed that the private sector mutual funds have been taking more risks and have also been able to gain higher returns on an average. This paper tries to highlight the comparative performance of public and private sector mutual funds and also throw light on the scope of the existing potential of the fund market in the face of traditional risk aversion of the investors and huge rise in financial assets.


Introduction
Mutual funds are pooled investments which enable investors to gain access to well diversified portfolios of securities.The amounts collected are professionally managed and invested in capital market instruments such as shares, debentures and other securities.It's one of the most suitable investment options as it offers an opportunity to invest in a diversified, professionally managed basket of securities at a relatively low cost and also provides liquidity to the investor as funds can be traded between the investor and the trust manager.In this sense, a mutual fund acts as a pure intermediary which performs the function of buying and selling securities on behalf of its Unit holders.
In India, the journey of mutual fund industry begins with the formation of Unit Trust of India (UTI) in the year 1963.There was the period of complete monopoly enjoyed by the UTI during 1963-1987.This actually marked the 1 st phase of the Indian Mutual Fund.The 2 nd phase is said to have lasted the period 1987-1993 when the Government of India allowed public sector banks and financial institutions to set up mutual funds.Various public sector players started entering the market during the later part of 1980s.In November 1987, SBI Mutual Fund from the State Bank of India became the first non-UTI mutual fund in India.This was followed by Canbank Mutual Fund, LIC Mutual Fund, Indian Bank Mutual Fund, Bank of India Mutual Fund, GIC Mutual Fund and PNB Mutual Fund.The 3 rd phase started with the entry of private sector and foreign funds during the period 1993-2003.During 1993, the private sector mutual funds started penetrating the market.Kothari Pioneer was the first private sector mutual fund company in India which has now merged with Franklin Templeton.Mutual Fund Regulations came into existence in 1993 with re-registering all mutual funds except UTI.In the beginning, the assets under management (AUM) of the UTI were a meager Rs. 67 billion.By the end of 1993, the total AUM of the fund industry was Rs. 470.04 billion.By 1994-95, about 11 private sector funds had launched their schemes.However, UTI remained the leader with about 80% market share.The permission given to private sector funds including foreign fund management companies, which mostly entered the market through joint ventures with Indian promoters, provided a wide range of choice to investors and more competition in the industry.Private funds introduced innovative products, investment techniques and investor-servicing technology.SEBI (Mutual Funds) Regulations, 1996 was introduced by The Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) that set uniform standards for all mutual funds in India.After 1996, the mutual fund industry witnessed robust growth and had also been subjected to stricter regulation by the (SEBI).With the increase in the number of players operating in the industry, fund mobilisation also increased and investors started showing more interest in mutual funds.SEBI looked into the aspects of Investors' interests and the Government too came forward to offer various incentives to the investors in order to encourage them.Now is the age of consolidation and growth which actually started with the year 2003.This can very well be dubbed as the 4 th phase of the Indian mutual fund industry.In February 2003, the UTI Act was repealed and UTI was stripped of its Special legal status as a trust.Presently Unit Trust of India operates under the name of UTI Mutual Fund.Its past schemes are being gradually wound up.However, UTI Mutual Fund has been still been the largest player in the industry.Thereafter, the mutual fund industry has come to witness several mergers and acquisitions.The acquisition of schemes of Alliance Mutual Fund by Birla Sun Life, Sun F&C Mutual Fund and PNB Mutual Fund by Principal Mutual Fund has been some of the prominent examples.During this period, some more international mutual fund players like Fidelity, Franklin Templeton Mutual Fund etc. have entered India.This is a continuing phase of growth of the industry through consolidation and entry of new international and private sector players.

Growth Potential of the mutual fund market
The Indian Mutual Fund industry has witnessed a rapid growth in recent years.This growth is a combined result of a number of factors including infrastructural development, increase in personal financial assets and rise in foreign participation etc.It has become a preferred investment option compared to many other traditional investment avenues because of factors like growing risk appetite, rising income, increasing awareness and expectation of higher returns.
The Mutual fund industry in India has emerged as a dominant financial intermediary in Indian capital market.Just after ten years with private sector penetration, the total assets rose up to Rs. 1218.05 billion and till 2004, it reached the height of 1540 billion.As of April 2006, the industry comprising of 33 Asset Management Companies managed financial assets of over Rs. 2000 billion (equivalent of US $45 billion).This was the result of the continuous contributions by an estimated 20 million investors spread all over the country.The interesting point to note here is that though the volume of investment in mutual fund happens to be quite large, stocks and mutual funds only account for 4. 95% of personal financial assets in India.Some experts have interpreted this as a kind of an indication of the huge potential in India for growth in investments by individuals into mutual funds and other risk assets.India has recently seen a rapid decline in the number of its extremely poor, along with an increase in its wealthy and middle-income segments.In India, the owners of mutual funds include not only the wealthy but also regular retail investors, and this should further broaden the market of potential mutual fund investors.Kamiyama, (2009).As on 31 March 2012, the average asset under management was Rs 66, 47, 920 million with a wide variety such as Open-Ended, Close-Ended, Interval, Growth, Income, Balanced, Equity Linked Savings Scheme (ELSS) and so on that caters to the investors' needs, risk tolerance and return expectations.The total AUM of the mutual fund industry has risen up to more than 14 trillion in April, 2016 (Economic Times, 6 May, 2016).Today there are 43 mutual funds in India offering a number of schemes suited to the needs of different type of customers.
The Assets under Management (AUM) have grown at a rapid pace at a CAGR of 35% over the 5-year period from 31 March 2005 to 31 March 2009.Over the 10-year period from 1999 to 2009, the industry grew at 22% CAGR.India has been amongst the fastest growing markets for mutual funds since 2004.During the period 2004 -2008, the Indian mutual fund industry grew at 29% CAGR as against the global average of 4%.With this impressive growth, the ratio of AUM to GDP in India has also gradually increased from 6% in 2005 to 11% in 2009.There has also been an increase in investment of the gross household financial savings into mutual funds from 1. 2% in 2004 to 7. 7% in 2008.Gupta, 2011) It has been observed that the saving pattern of Indian household sector is moving in favour of mutual funds.Traditionally, the asset portfolio of Indian household sector has been dominated by the time deposits and recurring deposits in the banks.Gradually, this trend has changed and there is more emphasis on investment in the mutual funds and the direct investment in the Securities market.Highly security-oriented Indian household sector is transformed into marginally risk-oriented sector and the risk-oriented segment of Indian Household sector has diverted the flow of their savings to the Stock markets through the medium of Mutual Funds.Raut, 2011).This interesting transformation of saving and investment decisions of Indian Household sector in recent years has become the cause of absolute growth of Mutual Fund Industry in India.Mutual Fund have mobilised resources largely from the household sector to the Capital market for transforming savings of the household sector into investment in the Capital market.There is positive trend of resource mobilisation by the Mutual Funds.Therefore, Mutual Funds have the potentials to promote rate of capital formation in Indian economy in the decade of 2010-11 to 2020-21.

Unit Holding Pattern of all Mutual Funds
Unit holding pattern of all Mutual Funds is more skewed towards individual household sector of Indian economy.On the other hand, unit holding pattern of corporate sector is the minimum.However, in spite of large unit holding by the individuals, there is less contribution to the total net assets by these individuals.On the contrary, in spite of minimum unit holding by the corporate sector, there is highest contribution to the total net assets by this sector.From the analysis of data on unit holding pattern of Private Sector Mutual Funds and Public Sector Sponsored Mutual Funds in India, the following observations are made: 1. Out of a total of 4. 77 crore investors accounts in the mutual funds industry, 3. 12 crore investors accounts i. e. 65. 41% of the total investors accounts are in private sector mutual funds whereas the 1. 65 crore investors accounts i. e. 34.59% are with the public sector sponsored mutual funds which ( includes UTI Mutual Fund.
2. However, the private sector mutual funds manage 77.97% of the net assets whereas the public sector sponsored mutual funds own only 22. 03% of the assets.Details of unit holding pattern of private sector and public sector sponsored mutual funds are given in the following tables: Next we have calculated the alpha and beta values of different categories of mutual funds after computing the adjusted R squares, standard errors by taking into account the intercept and coefficients of the regression equations.This has been done after computing the trend values risk-return analysis of different AMCs.Then we have found out the Sharpe ratio and Treynor ratio of different categories of funds.Both these ratios have indicated that Joint Venture foreign category of funds have outperformed the other categories in matters of getting rewards over risks of the portfolios.Again, the other methods of risk-return analysis based on standard deviations and adjusted NAV calculation clearly point to the fact that the private sector AMCs are generally inclined to taking more risks in their hunt for better returns.Even though many of them couldn't achieve better results over the long term horizon, some of them like, Reliance, Birla and Tata schemes have done well in risk-return analysis.
Table5: Performance (Based on periodic averages of Returns adjusted Net Asset Value) Table 6 Table 7 Table 8 Table 9 Table 10 Table 11 Table 12 Comparison of Schemes Performance based on Traditional Measures of Risk Analysis: Standard Deviation, Sharpe Ratio, Beta, Fama Ratio Table 13 Table 14 Table 15 Table 16 Table 17 Table 18 Table 19 Table 20 Table 21 Table 22 Table 23

Methodology and Analysis of Data This
paper has tried to evaluate the growth of mutual funds during 2000-01 to 20015-16.It also aims to evaluate resource mobilisation and assets under management by mutual funds in India and to examine Unit holding pattern of Private and Public Sector mutual funds in India.The methodology adopted is to collect secondary data from various sources (mentioned iv) Again, in case of three year periodic average return analysis for the period July 9, 1013 to July 8, 2016, Taurus Ethical Fund -Direct (B) under Indian private category has performed the poorest of all.Here Joint Venture Indian AMC DSP BR Micro-Cap Fund -Direct (G) has performed the best of all. B.

Comparison of Schemes Performance based on Traditional Measures of Risk Analysis: Standard Deviation
Out of all the schemes, Escorts High Yield Equity Plan -Direct (D) under Indian Private (has got the highest S. D. with 26.73 and Baroda Pioneer Bank &Fin Serv Fund-Plan B-Dir (D-RI) under JV foreign has got the lowest S. D. at 1. 41. Two of the funds in the market, namely, Baroda Pioneer Bank&Fin Serv Fund-Plan B-Dir (D-RI) and Tata Resources & Energy Fund -Direct (D), both under Indian Private category have registered highest Sharpe ratio.On the other hand, Baroda Pioneer PSU Equity Fund -Plan B -Dir (D) under JV Foreign has shown lowest Sharpe ratio.Financial Services -Direct (D) which is under Indian private AMC has shown highest Beta value during the study period; while two JV Indian funds namely, BOI AXA Mid Cap Equity & Debt Fund -Direct (D) and SBI Shariha Equity Fund -Direct (D) have registered lowest Beta value RatioThe scheme Tata Banking & Financial Services Fund -Dir (D) under Indian Private AMC has shown highest Fama ratio during the period.The Joint venture foreign AMC Baroda Pioneer PSU Equity Fund -Plan B -Dir (D) has registered lowest Fama ratio.