Franklin India Large & Mid Cap Fund - Direct - Growth

Franklin India Large & Mid Cap Fund - Direct - Growth sits in the middle of the pack for Large & Mid Cap Fund funds, currently carrying a 2-star rating. TopFund's composite Health Score, which weighs rating, 3-year CAGR, expense ratio and fund size, puts it at 59/100.

Cost: At 1.57%, the expense ratio runs 40% above the Large & Mid Cap Fund category average of 1.12%. That gap is worth weighing against the fund's actual performance versus cheaper peers before committing to a long SIP.

Risk-adjusted performance: Over the trailing 1-year period, the fund shows a negative Sharpe ratio of -0.44 — over the past year, returns haven't kept pace with the volatility involved, even before accounting for the risk-free rate. Separately, annualised volatility of 13.62% is fairly typical for actively managed equity funds.

Who should invest: This fund is best suited to investors with a 5+ year horizon comfortable with meaningfully higher volatility than large cap funds. The High risk rating means near-term volatility should be expected — this isn't a fund to check daily.