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Abstract
Mutual funds are a good investment option to medium and small investors who do not excel at stock market due to lack of professional knowledge, limited resources and failure to diversity. Though the industry has been operational so long, it still not able to win the trust of investors. The performance evaluation of mutual funds in influences the investors to allocate their resources into different mutual funds. The present study is an attempt to analyze the financial performance of diversified equity mutual funds in the framework of risk- return dimensions .(i.e. from the year 2008 to the year 2013).Funds which have been operating during the period of study are selected for the present research. There sample for the study consists of 5diversified equity fund, standard deviation ,risk/return, Sharpe ratio, Treynorratio,and Jenson ratio. Benchmark comparison is also made as it indicates to what extent the fund managers were able to produce better performance of portfolio compared to the market or index portfolio.