A Study on Factors for Investor Dissatisfaction towards Mutual Funds in Bhopal City

Abstract

Mutual fund as an investment option still needs to be accepted by the investors as an instrument in their basket of investment. Presence of the mutual fund industry has been more than 5 decades old and yet efforts are made, to strive hard, for its existence and survival in the market. Despite that more than 1300 schemes are marketed to meet the investor objectives by 44 AMC’s in India, yet the industry is unable to gain the trust and satisfaction of investors. This paper attempts to evaluate the factors that contribute to investor dissatisfaction in Bhopal city and also the impact of dissatisfaction on the tenure of investment in mutual funds.sted by chi square test and cross-tabulation. The findings give us an idea about the acceptance and rejections of various associations among the variables under study.