These top 10 mutual funds to invest in India have been filtered, analyzed and shortlisted based on key parameters.
These mutual funds are picked based on highest returns received in the last 5 years, including when market was bearish / down trend.
Mutual fund Schemes rated by Crisil as Rank-1, Rank-2, Rank-3 and Rank-4 are picked for these top funds list which indicates consistent performance in all market cycles.
Value research Online (VRO) rated these funds as 5 star, 4 star and 3 star. Highest star rating indicates that these funds can perform well compared to its peers in various stock market cycles.
Filtered based on Mutual fund AUM (Assets under management) which has > 1000 Crores. This refers that more and more investors are investing in such funds create investor confidence about the fund.
Some of the funds would be a repetition from my earlier recommendations as they continue to perform well.
Top#1: SBI Blue Chip Fund
Fund Objective: The scheme would invest in stocks of companies whose market capitalization is at least equal to or more than the least market capitalized stock of BSE 100 Index.
Fund Performance: This is one of my favourite large cap fund. This fund has beaten all its peers and provided 18% annualised returns in last 5 years. If you have invested Rs 1,000 per month through SIP for 5 years, your total investment would have been Rs 60,000 and your investment value would have grown to Rs 96,000 now. Since Inception it gave 12% annualized returns. If one would have invested Rs 1 Lakh 5 years back, the invested amount would have grown to Rs 2.3 Lakhs.
Why to invest: Fund performed well in various market cycles. This fund beats all its peers and provided 18% annualised returns in the last 5 years compared to the S&P BSE 100 benchmark of 12% in a similar period. Risk Grade is low and Return grade is high. Crisil ranks it as Rank-1 and Value Research Online (VRO) as 5-Star (5 out of 5). This is one of the best large cap mutual fund for SIP to invest for long term of 10-20 years.
Top#2: Aditya Birla Sun Life Frontline Equity Fund
Fund Objective: This mutual fund scheme aims to generate long term growth of investment, through a stock portfolio with a target allocation of 100% equity aiming at being as diversified across various industries and or sectors.
Fund Performance: This is another fund which is my favourite. This fund has beaten all its peers and provided 17.7% annualised returns in last 5 years. Even in the short term of 1 year, it gave 15% returns which proves it as good short term fund too. If you have invested Rs 1,000 per month through SIP for 5 years, your total investment would have been Rs 60,000 and your investment value would have grown to Rs 91,000 now. Since Inception it gave 22% annualized returns. If one would have invested Rs 1 Lakh 5 years back, the invested amount would have grown to Rs 2.25 Lakhs.
Why to invest: Last year the asset size was Rs 12,000 Crores and currently this is over Rs 18,500 Crores. Fund performed well in bull markets and reduced losses during bear markets. This fund beats all its peers and provided 17.7% annualised returns in the last 5 years compared to the S&P BSE 200 benchmark of 13% in a similar period. Risk Grade is below average and return grade is above average. Crisil ranks it as Rank-2 and Value Research Online (VRO) as 4-Star (4 out of 5). This is one of the best mutual funds for SIP to invest for medium to long term of 10-20 years.
Top#3: ICICi Pru Focussed Blue Chip Fund
Fund Objective: This mutual fund's objective is to invest in 20 large cap companies from the top 200 stocks listed on the NSE on the basis of market capitalization and since it has already crossed Rs 1,000 Crores asset size, it invests beyond Top 200 Stocks in NSE.
Fund Performance: This fund has beaten all its peers and provided 16% annualised returns in last 5 years. If you have invested Rs 1,000 per month through SIP for 5 years, your total investment would have been Rs 60,000 and your investment value would have grown to Rs 90,500 now. Since Inception it gave 15% annualized returns. If one would have invested Rs 1 Lakh 5 years back, the invested amount would have grown to Rs 2.1 Lakhs.
Why to invest: Fund performed well in various market cycles. This fund beats all its peers and provided 16% annualised returns in the last 5 years compared to the S&P BSE 100 benchmark of 12% in a similar period. Risk Grade is below average and return grade is above average. Crisil ranks it as Rank-3 and Value Research Online (VRO) as 4-Star (4 out of 5). This is one of the good mutual fund for SIP to invest for long term of 10-15 years.
Top#4: Reliance Small Cap Fund
Fund Objective: This scheme aims to generate capital appreciation by investing in smaller companies. This is just 6 years old scheme. However, in these 6 years, it has beaten its peers with high returns.
Fund Performance: This fund has beaten all its peers and provided 30% annualised returns in last 5 years. If you have invested Rs 1,000 per month through SIP for 5 years, your total investment would have been Rs 60,000 and your investment value would have grown to Rs 136,000 now. Since Inception it gave 21% annualized returns. If one would have invested Rs 1 Lakh 5 years back, the invested amount would have grown to Rs 3.7 Lakhs.
Why to invest: This smallcap fund has performed well in just 6 years of its history. This fund beats all its peers and provided 30% annualised returns in the last 5 years compared to the S&P BSE Small Cap benchmark of 18% in a similar period. Risk Grade is above average and return grade is above average. Crisil ranks it as Rank-2 and Value Research Online (VRO) as 3-Star (3 out of 5). This is one of the top mutual fund for SIP to invest for medium to long term of 5-10 years.
Top#5: Mirae Asset Emerging Bluechip Fund
Fund Objective: This fund aims to generate income and capital appreciation from a diversified portfolio predominantly investing in Indian equities and equity related securities of companies which are not part of the top 100 stocks by market capitalization and have market capitalization of atleast Rs.100 Crores at the time of investment.
Fund Performance: This fund has beaten all its peers and provided 29% annualised returns in last 5 years. If you have invested Rs 1,000 per month through SIP for 5 years, your total investment would have been Rs 60,000 and your investment value would have grown to Rs 128,000 now. Since Inception it gave 24% annualized returns. If one would have invested Rs 1 Lakh 5 years back, the invested amount would have grown to Rs 3.65 Lakhs.
Why to invest: This midcap fund has performed in various market cycles making this as unique fund. This fund beats all its peers and provided 30% annualised returns in the last 5 years compared to the NIFTY Free float midcap 100 benchmark of 18% in a similar period. Risk Grade is low and return grade is high. Crisil ranks it as Rank-1 and Value Research Online (VRO) as 5-Star (5 out of 5). This is one of the best midcap mutual fund for SIP to invest for medium to long term of 5-10 years.
Top#6: Franklin India Smaller Cos Fund
Fund Objective: This fund’s objective is to generate long-term capital appreciation from a portfolio of mid-cap and small-cap companies. It invests upto 75% in smaller companies.
Fund Performance: This fund has beaten all its peers and provided 30% annualised returns in last 5 years. If you have invested Rs 1,000 per month through SIP for 5 years, your total investment would have been Rs 60,000 and your investment value would have grown to Rs 120,000 now. Since Inception it gave 16% annualized returns. If one would have invested Rs 1 Lakh 5 years back, the invested amount would have grown to Rs 3.7 Lakhs.
Why to invest: This small cap fund has performed well in various market cycles. This fund beats all its peers and provided 30% annualised returns in the last 5 years compared to the NIFTY Free float midcap 100 benchmark of 18% in a similar period. Risk Grade is low and return grade is average. Crisil ranks it as Rank-3 and Value Research Online (VRO) as 5-Star (5 out of 5). This is one of the top mutual fund for SIP to invest for medium to long term of 5-10 years.
I have recommended Principal Emerging Bluechip fund (part of midcap/smallcap) last year as part of top 10 funds. This fund too performed well by providing 29% returns in the last 5 years, however since the above 3 midcap/smallcap funds are comparatively better, this fund has been pushed to 4th position in midcap/small cap position. In case you have invested in this fund, continue to invest in such fund.
I have also recommended DSP BR Microcap fund last year which is running well. However since the size of the fund is increasing they have stopped fresh investments. Existing SIP's are continuing. Hence I have recommended this Fund now. If you are invested, continue to invest in this fund.
Top#7: Franklin India Higher Growth Companies Fund
Fund Objective: The fund seeks to achieve capital appreciation through investments in Indian companies/sectors with high growth rates or potential. It will focus on companies offering the best trade-off between growth, risk and valuation. The fund managers will follow an active investment strategy and will be focusing on rapid growth companies which will be selected based on growth, measures such as Enterprise value, growth rate, price/earnings/growth, forwardprice/sales, and discounted EPS.
Fund Performance: This fund has beaten all its peers and provided 22% annualised returns in last 5 years. If you have invested Rs 1,000 per month through SIP for 5 years, your total investment would have been Rs 60,000 and your investment value would have grown to Rs 100,000 now. Since Inception it gave 14% annualized returns. If one would have invested Rs 1 Lakh 5 years back, the invested amount would have grown to Rs 2.7 Lakhs.
Why to invest: This diversified fund has performed well in various market cycles. This fund beats all its peers and provided 22% annualised returns in the last 5 years compared to the NIFTY 500 benchmark of 14% in a similar period. Risk Grade is average and return grade is high. Crisil ranks it as Rank-3 and Value Research Online (VRO) as 5-Star (5 out of 5). This is one of the top and best mutual fund for SIP to invest for medium to long term of 5-10 years.
Top#8: Kotak Select Focus Fund
Fund Objective: The mutual fund scheme aims for capital appreciation from a diversified portfolio of equity and equity related instruments, generally focused on a few selected sectors.
Fund Performance: This fund has beaten all its peers and provided 20% annualised returns in last 5 years. If you have invested Rs 1,000 per month through SIP for 5 years, your total investment would have been Rs 60,000 and your investment value would have grown to Rs 100,000 now. Since Inception it gave 15% annualized returns. If one would have invested Rs 1 Lakh 5 years back, the invested amount would have grown to Rs 2.5 Lakhs.
Why to invest: This is one of the best diversified fund. This fund beats all its peers and provided 20% annualised returns in the last 5 years compared to the NIFTY 200 benchmark of 13% in a similar period. Risk Grade is average and return grade is Above Average. Crisil ranks it as Rank-1 and Value Research Online (VRO) as 4-Star (4 out of 5). This is one of the top diversified mutual fund for SIP to invest for long term of 10-20 years.
Top#9: ICICI Pru Balanced Mutual Fund
Fund Objective: The scheme invests in equities and related securities as well as fixed income and money market securities. It invests 60% minimum in equity and balance in debt related instruments.
Fund Performance: This fund has beaten all its peers and provided 18% annualised returns in last 5 years. If you have invested Rs 1,000 per month through SIP for 5 years, your total investment would have been Rs 60,000 and your investment value would have grown to Rs 92,000 now. Since Inception it gave 15% annualized returns. If one would have invested Rs 1 Lakh 5 years back, the invested amount would have grown to Rs 2.3 Lakhs.
Why to invest: This is one of the best diversified fund. This fund beats all its peers and provided 18% annualised returns in the last 5 years compared to the Balanced Fund category benchmark of 13% in a similar period. Risk Grade is below average and return grade is Above Average. Crisil ranks it as Rank-2 and Value Research Online (VRO) as 4-Star (4 out of 5). This is one of the top and best balanced mutual fund for SIP to invest for long term of 10-20 years.
Top#10: HDFC Balanced Fund
Fund Objective: The scheme invests in equities and related securities as well as fixed income and money market securities. It invests 60% minimum in equity and balance in debt related instruments.
Fund Performance: This fund has beaten all its peers and provided 17.7% annualised returns in last 5 years. If you have invested Rs 1,000 per month through SIP for 5 years, your total investment would have been Rs 60,000 and your investment value would have grown to Rs 95,000 now. Since Inception it gave 15% annualized returns. If one would have invested Rs 1 Lakh 5 years back, the invested amount would have grown to Rs 2.25 Lakhs.
Why to invest: This is the second best balanced fund. This fund beats all its peers and provided 18% annualised returns in the last 5 years compared to the Balanced Fund category benchmark of 17.7% in a similar period. Risk Grade is below average and return grade is Above Average. Crisil ranks it as Rank-1 and Value Research Online (VRO) as 4-Star (4 out of 5). This is one of the good balanced mutual fund for SIP to invest for long term of 10-20 years.
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