A Study on Comparison of Index Returns and Returns of Portfolio Created Using Equal Weight Age Index Method

Abstract

 

The main aim of the study is to select a list of companies from the basic indices of NSE like Nifty50, Next50 and Small Cap 50, to create a portfolio of the companies with respect to the indices selected for the study which results in 3 different portfolios. Portfolio 1 represents 29 scrips selected from Nifty50, Portfolio 2 represents 30 scrips selected from the Next50 index, and Portfolio 3 represents 34 scrips selected from Small Cap index. After creating the portfolios, Each scrip under each portfolio will be invested with Rs.1,00,000, each scrip in each portfolio will be given equal weightage so the total investment will be Rs.29,00,000, Rs.30,00,000 and Rs.34,00,000, under Portfolio 1, 2 and 3 respectively.

To prove the factor that the returns of the created portfolio has beaten the index returns the price data of all the scrips for the past 10 years were taken and the returns were computed for the  portfolio year on year and from 2008 to 2018.