Top mutual funds: These 9 small cap schemes gave over 25% annualised returns in the past 10 years

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mutual fund, investors tend to examine the historical returns delivered by the scheme and compare it to other funds in the same category. Although there are other factors also which make a scheme “investment worthy", investors still base their decision on the scheme’s historical returns vis-à-vis other factors. Here, we shed light on small cap mutual funds, which have given higher annualised returns than 25 percent in the past 10 years.

At the outset, let us first understand what is a small cap mutual fund. ALSO READ | What are the strategies for building a diversified investment portfolio? MintGenie explains These are equity mutual funds which invest a minimum of 65 percent of their assets in small cap stocks. And small cap stocks are securities of companies, which are ranked below 250 companies when measured in terms of their market capitalisation.

Now, we list out the small cap funds which have delivered more than 30 percent in annualised returns for the past 10 years. There are 27 small cap mutual funds with total assets under management (AUM) amounting to ₹2.66 lakh crore. These schemes received an inflow of ₹2,208 crore in April alone, higher than the corresponding inflow to mid-cap ( ₹1,793 crore) and large cap schemes ( ₹357.56 crore).

(Source: AMFI) As we can see in the table above, the top-performing small cap fund (Quant Small Cap) has delivered 39.06 percent annualised return in the past 10 years. This is followed by Bank of India Small Cap Fund (31.68%), Nippon India Small Cap Fund (30.88%) and Edelweiss Small Cap Fund (28.50%). ALSO READ | Large caps get attention amid uncertainty but don't ignore mid and small caps However, it is perhaps vital to mention that the historical returns – despite being an