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This chapter focuses on benchmarking in the mutual fund industry. Benchmarking is a tool that is used to judge the performance of mutual funds against a “standard” or “benchmark” decided for the particular scheme. The benchmark fund varies according to the nature of fund and the decisions made by the manager of the asset management company (AMC) of the respective scheme/fund.
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Sekhar, G.V.S. (2017). Benchmarking. In: The Management of Mutual Funds . Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-34000-5_4
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