Analaysis of A type mutual funds in Turkey (term of 2000-2008)

Globalization which shows itself on every field in recent years has provided diversity in financial markets about corporate and financial product variety. Savings owners who wants to evaluate their saving on investment products may encounter some difficulties as there are many financial product diversity. Professional approach about which savings owners who don?t know enough knowledge, need is presented with mutual funds to them.Especially for individual investors who want to invest in stock markets, professional approach gains more importance. On the contrary of fixed income securities, being price fluctuating in stock markets high forms the fundamental reason of this importance. As mutual funds which contain mostly stocks in their portfolios gain profit depending on price fluctuating in stock markets, the choice to be made among these funds makes it critical decision.The fundamental goal of our study is to examine the performance analysis? that can be used on this critical decision and to help investors making correct choices analyzing performance of the mutual funds in Turkey in the years between 2000-2008. This way, we think the competition among mutual funds can be increased and managers of funds are going to work hard to get the best performance considering investors making rational decisions.Keywords: A Type Mutual Funds, Performance Measuring.