ANALYSIS ON THE PERFORMANCE OF VARIOUS MUTUAL FUNDS PRE AND POST RUSSIA-UKRAINIAN WAR PERIOD

In the world of money and finance, mutual funds have been a source of investment which is considered to provide consistent returns to the investors either big or small. The present article tries to provide the fluctuations in the performance of the mutual funds and the impact on them by some external factor, which is Russia-Ukraine war that affected that the world in different ways. The data used for the analysis includes closing values of the various mutual funds from 30 companies for 8 quarters, taking the beginning of the Russia-Ukraine war, and the t test is applied to scrutinize the distinctness between the performance of funds. The study concludes that there is substantial difference in the behavior of funds before and after the war.