To Investigate the Factors Influencing the Dehradun District Retail Investors Choice to Invest in Mutual Funds

Abstract

Investment attracts different types of investors for different reasons. There are two major types of investors in the capital market, the institutional investor and the retail investor. People who are employees of companies or organizations that make investments on behalf of others (usually other corporations and organizations) are known as institutional investors. Conversely, retail investors are those who use their funds to make investments, typically for their benefit. Over the past few years, it has been the boom time for retail participants in the capital markets trading, as a record number of new participants have been added to the NSE and BSE. The present study helps to find the growth of retail investors, and different factors affecting the growth of retail individual investors and to study the Incremental growth of the Demat account in past few years which reflect the interest of investors in the capital market. This study presented the recent data of retail investors and Demat account growth rate of Dehradun city Uttarakhand.