This book delineates the Calendar Anomalies in the Indian Stock Market. The Market Efficiency explains the relationship between Information and the Share Prices in the market. The Calendar Anomalies are the best-known examples of inefficiencies in the Capital Markets. The Information Transmission Mechanism ensures that the stock returns across all days of the weeks and months are equal and the Market Participant, the Rational Financial Decision Maker, cannot earn any extra-normal profits. It is important to note that there are variations in Volatility of Stock Returns by the Day-of-the Week,...

This book delineates the Portfolio Performance of BSE Stocks using Multi Factor Model. The Capital Markets are the backbone of the corporate sector because they mobilize sufficient fund required for their development. Every investor, to some extent, is aware of the trade-off between risk-return, but they do not know about what amount of risk is involved in every stock. They do not have deep knowledge about the amount of risk and the kind of risks affecting their investment in particular and market in general. Earning the return in excess of risk free return is not an easy task as number of...