| Have you lost your money by investing in risky | | | | 4. DSP Merill Lynch Top 100 Equity Fund |
| stocks? Try investing in mutual funds and get the | | | | 5. Franklin Templeton India Prima Plus |
| returns from the stock markets with the help of | | | | 6. UTI Large Cap Fund |
| professional managers. | | | | Some of the Blue chip companies in which these |
| There are lot of types of mutual funds available | | | | funds have invested are Infosys Technologies, |
| for investment. Large Cap Mutual Fund is one | | | | State Bank of India, Reliance Industries Limited, |
| type of mutual fund that is available in the | | | | HDFC Bank, ICICI Bank etc |
| market. | | | | When you compare the performance of these |
| These are also called Blue Chip funds and primarily | | | | large caps with Mid caps at the time when the |
| invest in Blue chip stocks which have very high | | | | markets were performing very poor, the mid |
| market capitalization. These stocks have less risk | | | | caps got fired off from all the ends. The large |
| and give average returns more consistently. So if | | | | caps maintained average returns for the |
| you need average returns but with less risk, then | | | | investors. The important point is these funds do |
| you can prefer investing in such funds. Some of | | | | not get beaten up during market fluctuations. |
| the large cap funds are: | | | | The average 3 year returns given by these are |
| | | | primarily between 50 % to 60% which is a |
| 1. State Bank of India - Blue Chip Fund | | | | decent return on investment for the investors. ' |
| 2. Franklin Templeton India - Blue Chip Fund | | | | So the investors who prefer low risk and returns, |
| 3. Reliance Growth Fund | | | | can prefer such investments. |