One
MBL 1st Mutual Fund 0.0616 0.6159 0.3794 -5.2948
Phoenix Finance 1st Mutual Fund 0.3254 0.6366 0.4053 12.0678
PHP First Mutual Fund 0.5030 0.5470 0.2992 3.7269
Popular Life First Mutual Fund 0.5181 0.5068 0.2568 2.5315
Prime Bank 1st ICB AMCL Mutual
Fund 0.3157 0.5609 0.3146 -16.9643
PRIME FINANCE FIRST
MUTUAL FUND 0.1405 0.7750 0.6007 6.5397
SIXTH ICB MUTUAL FUND. 0.2745 0.5516 0.3043 1.0808
Southeast Bank 1st Mutual Fund 0.1638 0.4477 0.2004 1.9126
TRUST BANK 1ST MUTUAL
FUNDS 0.3410 0.5191 0.2695 1.9640
Source: Authors calculation by using SPSS-20
Table 03 reveals risk in absolute term i.e., standard deviation and variance and return sensitivity
i.e., beta in relation to market return movement. Higher standard deviation represent higher risk,
from Table-03 it is obvious that Popular Life First Mutual Fund having highest market
sensitivity i.e., beta (0.5118) followed by PHP First Mutual Fund (0.5030),DBH First Mutual
Fund (0.4958) and ICB AMCL 3rd NRB Mutual Fund (0.4894) lowest sensitivity shown by
ICB AMCL FIRST NRB MUTUAL FUND(0.003). It is also manifest that there are some
mutual fund schemes having negative beta although it being unusual in real world. While
considering absolute risk measurement i.e., standard deviation, higher standard deviation
indicates higher level of risk. Form Table-03 it is apparent that PRIME FINANCE FIRST
MUTUAL FUND having higher standard deviation (77.50%) followed by 5th ICB MUTUAL
FUND (72.70%), 4th ICB mutual fund (70.49%) and having lowest standard deviation shown
by 1st ICB MUTUAL FUND (39.40%). Table 03 reveals that Coefficient of variation range
from-255.96 to 0.6759. Considering value of coefficient of variation only one mutual funds
having less per unit risk in relation to return earned 5th ICB MUTUAL FUND (67.59%) as
favorable investment option among 32 mutual funds