Equity MFs See Modest Growth; Large Cap Funds Top Performers In March 2025: PL Wealth Study
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PL Wealth Management's study shows equity mutual funds' AUM grew 7.68% from February to March 2025. 38.64% of 298 funds outperformed benchmarks.
Mutual Fund Performance: PL Wealth Management, PL Capital's Wealth Management arm, in its latest study on mutual fund performance analysis, cited that the AUM (assets under management) of equity mutual funds—excluding Sectoral/Thematic Funds— witnessed a modest growth of 7.68% from INR 23,12,571 crore in February 2025 to INR 24,90,218 crore in March 2025.
The study, which analysed 298 open-ended equity diversified funds, found that 38.64% of these funds outperformed their respective benchmarks over the past month, ending March 31, 2025. In total, 114 funds recorded outperformance during this period.
Large Cap Funds Outperform Mid & SmallCap Funds
Large Cap Funds was the best performing category where 71.88% of the schemes outperformed the benchmark. It was followed by Large & Mid Cap Funds and Mid Cap Funds which outperformed their respective benchmarks by 58.06% and 51.72% respectively during the month of March 2025.
Small Cap Funds were the least performing fund category with 10.00% of funds outperforming the benchmark.
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