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Abstract
Capital market plays an important role in mobilizing resources, and diverting them in productive channels. In this way, it facilitates and promotes the process of economic growth in the country. Various functions of capital market are link between savers and investors, encouragement to saving, encouragement to investment, promotes economic growth, stability in security prices and benefits to investors. This chapter introduces the research outline of the study. The chapter begins with an overview of the Indian financial system, followed by brief discussion of the importance, role, benefits, disadvantages mutual funds, their growth and different types of Mutual Funds. Besides that, this chapter also includes the investors’ investment behaviors. Systematic Investment Plan (SIP), Systematic Withdrawal Plan (SWP) Regulatory Initiatives also highlighted.