MBA project topics based on mutual fund sector. suggest some research work in this area or survey techniques.?

i am MBA student. this is my last year final project. its will carry 400 marks in my final examination.

An area where my firm has been doing some research is around the idea of manager capacity, and how to evaluate when a manager has reached a level of AUM where they can no longer effectively invest according to their strategy due to liquidity and trading issues.

try finding out.. how mutual fund companies.. go about.. identifying the right time to schedule their NFO.. also try to scope to a particular. Mutual fund player (preferably a big one) and study the timing & branding of their funds.. in the market...

Focus on techniques what companies use to time their funds... it will help you & your career...

WHat percent of mutual funds beat the S & P 500?
Actively managed mutual funds usually have poor results due to the fact they are so highly regulated and the mutual fund manager is under such pressure to preform EVERY year.

I'd like to see hedge funds and asset managers versus the average mutual fund manager. My guess is that hedge fund managers do much better without all the regulations. Even investment managers that just give advice to high networth individual clients probably do much better than mutual funds.

Here is what I'm attempting to say... Compare mutual funds (that regular people invest in) to the investment tools that the rich use and show why mutual funds are crap (the fees, lots of transactions, poor decision making, diversification rules, etc). I think there is a very real reason that many of the rich DO NOT USE MUTUAL FUNDS. I read somewhere that there are 18,000 mutual funds.... that's more mutual funds than actual stocks listed on the NYSE/NASDAQ.... I just hate mutual funds, sorry. I'm not saying all are poor... but ... most of them are very poor. Sorry this sounds like a rant. I just hope you are able to uncouver why the Average joe maybe shouldn't invest in mutual funds, and then find alternative investment vehicles that will help REAL people retire.