Prashant Kumar (2014) the study entitled the topic “Comparative study on share market and mutual

fund”. The main objective are the to understand about the corporate environment, to know about
corporate equities and to know strength and weakness in the work environment. He met 300
Customers he used for the data collection. The primary data are used in project. The findings of the
project are the most people go for at least equity investment than for mutual fund ,fixed deposits
and insurance. He provided the suggestions are if there is more risk he get more return, the share
market is totally dependent on the risk taken by the investors in the investment.

Varun Duhnna (2010). The study entitled “analytical study on investor perception towards increasing
trend in share market”. The primary objective of the study are the to determine the growth trend in
the Indian share market, to study the scope of share market with regard to their investment and to
study in the trend of demat trading. The primary data collection is collection of data trough
questionnaire and personal interview. The secondary data collection trough the internet. The
sample size is 100.His finding of the study are the increasing in the number of stock exchanges, listed
companies and investment level also increased.The limitation of the study there may be some bias
information provide by Investor and mostly people prefer to do the trading by their own through
online trading mode.

Ankur Singhal and Vikram Bahure (2009) in their study entitled “week end effect of stock returns in
the Indian market”. Investigates whether daily returns depend on the day of the week by taking the
context of the Indian Stock Market. The data for this study have been taken from prowess data base.
The data relating Opening and closing price of three major operation indices in India BSE Sensex, BSE
200 and the S&P Nifty have been collected. The daily returns were calculated from April 2003 to
April 2008. The collected data are analysed by making use of regression. The findings of the study
portraits that returns on each day of the week during this period for the BSE Sensex, BSE 200 and
S&P indices, have similar results. Monday returns remained less than other days, and Friday
remained greater than other days. The limitations of the study are the author considers cyclic factor
rather than fundamental factors and consider only weekly variation in stock returns. Seasonal
variation, Monthly variations or intraday variations in returns have not been considered

Akhilesh mishra chauhan( 2008), the study entitled “mutual fund is the better investment plan”. The
study discuss on the objectives are to find out the preference of the investor for asset management
company, to know the preference for the portfolios and to find out the most preferred channels. He
collects information from 200 peoples. He gave suggestions and recommendations of these studies
are the most vital problem spotted ignorance, the investor should be made aware of the benefit ,
the mutual funds offer a lot of benefit which no other single option could offer and mutual fund
company needs to give the training of the individual financial advisors about the fund and scheme.

Debjiban Mukherjee (2007) made” a comparative Analysis of Indian stock market with International
markets”. His study covers New York Stock Exchange, Hong Kong Stock exchange, Tokyo Stock
exchange, Russian Stock exchange, Korean Stock exchange are compared to Indian stock market that
is Bombay Stock exchange and the National Stock Exchange. The main objective of this study is to
capture the trends, similarities and patterns in the activities and movements of the Indian Stock
Market in comparison to its international counterparts. The time period has been divided into
various eras. The various stock exchanges have been compared on the basis of Market
Capitalization, number of listed securities, listing agreements, circuit filters, and settlement. The
study concluding the markets do react to global cues and any happening in the global scenario be it
macroeconomic or country specific affect the various markets.