LIC MF Small Cap Fund - Growth

Regular

Regular and Direct options of the funds are exactly same except commission to your mutual fund broker/distributor. As an investor you do not need to pay any additional fees to purchase any of these options. However both have different expense ratios. Regular funds have higher expense ratio and direct funds have lower expense ratio. This difference is because of commission paid to broker/distributor. Lower expense ratio leads to higher returns for investors.
Direct

Regular and Direct options of the funds are exactly same except commission to your mutual fund broker/distributor. As an investor you do not need to pay any additional fees to purchase any of these options. However both have different expense ratios. Regular funds have higher expense ratio and direct funds have lower expense ratio. This difference is because of commission paid to broker/distributor. Lower expense ratio leads to higher returns for investors.

Category : Small Cap Fund

Scheme Objective

to provide investors with the opportunities for long-term capital appreciation by investing predominantly in Equity and Equity related instruments of Smallcap Companies.

Scheme Details

Fund manager(s) – Yogesh Patil , Dikshit Mittal , Mahesh Bendre
Launch date – 21-Jun-2017
Expense ratio – 2.38% as declared on 30-Sep-2025 (category average is 1.85%)
Benchmark - Nifty Smallcap 250 TRI

Min SIP amount - ₹500
Min investment amount (one time- first time) - ₹5000
Min investment amount (addtional purchase) - ₹1000
Type : Open Ended Fund. You can invest any time in this fund.

Exit Load

LIC MF Small Cap Fund - Growth charges 1.0% of sell value; if fund sold before 365 days. There are no other charges.

Asset Monitor

Total AUM for this Scheme (Cr)

Category Total AUM (Cr)

% of Assets in Category

2025

632.29

0.00

0.00%

Sep - 2025	632.29	0.00%
Aug - 2025	604.36	0.00%
Jul - 2025	618.13	0.00%
Jun - 2025	604.52	0.00%
May - 2025	575.56	0.00%
Apr - 2025	517.66	0.00%
Mar - 2025	493.73	0.00%
Feb - 2025	433.60	0.00%
Jan - 2025	491.39	0.00%

2024

464.52

0.00

0.00%

Dec - 2024	464.52	0.00	0.00%
Nov - 2024	411.35	0.00	0.00%
Oct - 2024	385.61	0.00	0.00%
Sep - 2024	370.18	0.00	0.00%
Aug - 2024	348.02	0.00	0.00%
Jul - 2024	318.40	0.00	0.00%
Jun - 2024	281.35	0.00	0.00%
May - 2024	237.22	270644.79	0.09%
Apr - 2024	223.18	266170.76	0.08%
Mar - 2024	208.67	243932.13	0.09%
Feb - 2024	212.14	249125.55	0.09%
Jan - 2024	209.08	247548.84	0.08%

2023

193.61

233946.64

0.08%

Dec - 2023	193.61	233946.64	0.08%
Nov - 2023	183.06	220078.42	0.08%
Oct - 2023	168.58	199375.10	0.08%
Sep - 2023	170.14	198435.03	0.09%
Aug - 2023	170.59	193907.02	0.09%
Jul - 2023	163.48	182347.02	0.09%
Jun - 2023	160.89	168194.95	0.10%
May - 2023	154.63	153712.24	0.10%
Apr - 2023	146.31	142199.12	0.10%
Mar - 2023	140.89	133615.06	0.11%
Feb - 2023	143.80	131396.67	0.11%
Jan - 2023	146.02	130799.90	0.11%

2022

149.85

130327.17

0.11%

Dec - 2022	149.85	130327.17	0.11%
Nov - 2022	156.49	129929.89	0.12%
Oct - 2022	156.22	125792.94	0.12%
Sep - 2022	153.79	122819.67	0.13%
Aug - 2022	143.13	120163.09	0.12%
Jul - 2022	132.22	113037.36	0.12%
Jun - 2022	122.03	102186.12	0.12%
May - 2022	127.49	104429.45	0.12%
Apr - 2022	134.44	109383.27	0.12%
Mar - 2022	135.05	106656.93	0.13%
Feb - 2022	128.73	99955.52	0.13%
Jan - 2022	135.80	105937.96	0.13%

2021

136.75

105530.08

0.13%

Dec - 2021	136.75	105530.08	0.13%
Nov - 2021	132.58	99620.66	0.13%
Oct - 2021	129.69	98130.11	0.13%
Sep - 2021	130.37	97200.01	0.13%
Aug - 2021	127.53	92905.34	0.14%
Jul - 2021	126.21	93199.48	0.14%
Jun - 2021	122.25	85202.69	0.14%
May - 2021	120.41	79680.08	0.15%
Apr - 2021	115.06	72144.72	0.16%
Mar - 2021	112.53	69145.46	0.16%
Feb - 2021	110.82	67114.65	0.17%
Jan - 2021	109.81	60567.33	0.18%

2020

119.07

62121.82

0.19%

Dec - 2020	119.07	62121.82	0.19%
Nov - 2020	121.43	58649.69	0.21%
Oct - 2020	112.78	52986.60	0.21%
Sep - 2020	117.76	53552.79	0.22%
Aug - 2020	114.74	51700.84	0.22%
Jul - 2020	106.83	46501.72	0.23%
Jun - 2020	101.06	44238.20	0.23%
May - 2020	94.96	39235.85	0.24%
Apr - 2020	97.02	40096.67	0.24%
Mar - 2020	87.22	35460.34	0.25%
Feb - 2020	124.10	49931.86	0.25%
Jan - 2020	134.29	51865.25	0.26%

Tax Rate

If sold after 1 year from purchase date, long term capital gain tax will be applicable. Current tax rate is 12.5%, if your total long term capital gain exceeds 1.25 lakh. Any cess/surcharge is not included. If sold before 1 year from purchase date, short term capital gain tax will be applicable. Current tax rate is 20%. Any cess/surcharge is not included in the 20%.