Best Performing Funds For the Month of Jan’22 (Category-Wise)

The world of investments is quite vast and this makes investing seem to be complicated as well as quite a daunting task; the range of options being stocks, real estate, gold, money market accounts, insurance, etc. However, a safe bet for investors would be to benefit from the opportunities that the market offers by way of Mutual Funds, where the money of investors is consolidated into a single vehicle. Mutual funds make a great investment option as they help investors diversify their holdings in an efficient manner, and they are a very convenient mode of investment, considering the fact that an Investor can begin investing with a small amount into either a single or multiple funds. Mutual funds also give investors access to a huge range of investment alternatives, in contrast to investments made in stocks. This indicates that you can buy units in a particular mutual fund that invests the funds in different securities belonging to different sectors. 

To help you select the mutual fund best-suited to you, we are listing down the monthly top-performing funds category-wise. This will help you stay updated on the funds that are performing well in the market and you can make an informed investment decision. Please note past performance is only one of several other factors that can indicate success in a future position, and it does not guarantee future results.

Large Cap Funds
Fund Name1 Month Returns (%)
HDFC Top 100 Fund-Direct Plan2.42
Nippon India Large Cap Fund-Direct Plan2.12
ICICI Prudential Bluechip Fund-Direct Plan1.18
Taurus Large Cap Equity Fund-Direct Plan0.88
Tata Large Cap Fund-Direct Plan0.62

Mid Cap Funds
Fund Name1 Month Returns (%)
Quant Midcap Fund-Direct Plan2.27
BNP Paribas Midcap Fund-Direct Plan1.28
Mirae Asset Midcap Fund-Direct Plan1.18
HDFC Mid-cap Opportunities Fund-Direct Plan1.11
Nippon India Growth Fund-Direct Plan0.52

Small-Cap Funds
Blended Funds*
Fund Name1 Month Returns (%)
Quant Smallcap Fund-Direct Plan2.89
Canara Robeco Smallcap Fund-Direct Plan2.06
DSP Smallcap Fund-Direct Plan0.02
Axis Smallcap Fund-Direct Plan-0.02
Nippon India Nifty Smallcap 250 Index Fund-Direct Plan-0.23
Fund Name1 Month Returns (%)
HDFC Flexi Cap Fund-Direct Plan4.69
Nippon India Focused Equity Fund-Direct Plan4.46
Franklin India Focused Equity Fund-Direct Plan2.92
HDFC Focused 30 Fund-Direct Plan2.89
Mahindra Manulife Focused Equity Yojana-Direct Plan2.00
*Blended funds invest in all three market caps and are picked from Flexi Cap, Focused, and Multicap funds

International Funds
Fund Name1 Month Returns (%)
HSBC Brazil Fund-Direct Plan13.04
Aditya Birla Sun Life Commodity Equities Fund-Global Agri Plan-Direct Plan1.50
JSBC Asia Pacific (Ex Japan) Dividend Yield Fund-Direct Plan0.65
ICICI Prudential Global Stable Equity Fund (FOF)-Direct Plan-0.36
Edelweiss ASEAN Equity Off-shore Fund-Direct Plan-0.38
Invesco India-Invesco Pan European Equity FoF-Direct Plan-0.44