Performance Evaluation of Large Cap Funds

A mutual fund is an investment vehicle made up of a pool of money collected from many investors for the purpose of investing in securities such as stocks, bonds, money market instruments and other assets. FUND is broadly divided into four categories, such as Large cap, Large and Mid cap, Multi cap and Mid & small cap. An analysis is made on Large cap based select large cap funds. Large Cap Funds are known to offer stable and sustainable returns over a period of time. The performance Evaluation of Large Cap Funds has been Evaluated by using parameters like risk returns related analysis. All the large cap category funds have succeeded in imitating the performance of the underlying index and registered excessive returns over CNX Nifty Index. All the schemes of Large Cap. Funds exhibited lesser risk than the bench mark Index and considered defensive portfolios. All schemes have succeeded in generating excess returns in commensurate with their systematic risk as compared to Bench mark Index. On testing of Hypothesis, it is noticed that all the schemes operated by select AMCs are positively Co-related with regard to financial and Investment dimension. Performance Evaluation of Large Cap funds revealed that the ICICI Prudential Top 100 Fund Growth has dominated the market due to high returns, timely diversification of the portfolio, superior stock selection and effective asset management skills, ranked number one.