Abstract:
The objectives of this research were to analyze (1) the fees on Equity Funds in Thailands Mutual Fund Industry (2) the returns on Equity Funds in Thailands Mutual Fund Industry (3) An analysis results were useful for investment decisions. The population was 33 equity funds from 10 asset management companies. The study instrument was a record with reliability value of 5 years in quarterly basis started from 2007-2011. Descriptive statistics was used in data analysis including F-test (One-way ANOVA), Coefficient of Determination: R2, Durbin-Watson, Multiple Regression Analysis and Cluster Analysis.The research revealed the following findings: (1) The mutual fund industry charges different kinds of fees to customers namely back-end fee, front-end fee and management fee, supervisory fee, others charges to mutual funds. For back-end fee and front-end fee have maximum charges the highest fee of 1%, while no minimum charges to some mutual funds. The highest maximum charge for management fee is 2%, supervision and others are 0.24%, 0.3% respectively.(2) The highest return of mutual fund is 47.62% (3) At the statistical significance level of 0.05, there is a difference in fee return and difference in result with predictions of 54 % and 46% on the variance. The supervisory and registrar fees are positively affecting the return while the back-end fee, front-end fee, management fee and other fees have negative effect.