Franklin India Smaller Companies Fund - Direct Plan

The Franklin India Smaller Companies Fund is an actively managed open-ended equity mutual fund that seeks to provide its investors with long-term capital appreciation through investments in a diversified basket of instruments across market sectors. The fund carries a small-cap bias. This fund is suitable for investors with long investment horizons of 3 years or more. As this is an equity fund with small-cap bias investors in this fund should have a high capacity for risk.

Fund Info

Scheme Class	Equity
Scheme Category	Small-Cap
Benchmark Type	Nifty Midcap 100 Index
Expense Ratio	1.04%
Min subscription	₹ 5,000

Scheme Type	Open-ended
Scheme AUM (in Crs.)	₹ 6,584
AMC AUM (in Crs.)	₹ 1,18,912
Min Addition Subscription	₹ 1,000

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Peer Comparison

Fund	Min SIP Inv.	Min Inv.	Returns 3Y
Franklin India Smaller Companies Fund - Direct Plan	1000	1000	4.83%
HDFC Small Cap Fund - Direct Plan	1000	1000	11.26%
Aditya Birla Sun Life Small Cap Fund - Direct Plan	1000	1000	2.3%
L&T Emerging Businesses Fund - Direct Plan	1000	1000	10.25%
HDFC Small Cap Fund - Direct Plan	1000	1000	11.26%

Portfolio Info

The Franklin India Smaller Companies Fund invests the majority of its corpus in the small-cap and mid-cap segments of the market, with an approximate allocation of 80% given to these two segments collectively. The fund invests nominally in large-cap equity stocks and debt and other money market instruments. Presently, the fund invests heavily in the Finance, Chemicals, Construction and Engineering sectors of the Indian economy.

Top 10 Holdings

Company	Holding Type	Asset(%)
Call, Cash & Other Assets	Other Assets And Liabilities	7
HDFC Bank Ltd	Equity	5
Brigade Enterprises Ltd	Equity	3
Voltas Ltd	Equity	2
Deepak Nitrite Ltd	Equity	2
Sobha Ltd	Equity	2
Finolex Cables Ltd	Equity	2
Nesco Ltd	Equity	2
Vardhman Textiles Ltd	Equity	2
Hindustan Petroleum Corp Ltd	Equity	2

Asset Allocation(%)

Asset	Percent
Equity	93
Other Assets And Liabilities	7

Sector Allocation(%)

Sector	Percent
Banks - Regional - Asia	13
Other Assets And Liabilities	7
Diversified Industrials	7
Specialty Chemicals	6
Building Materials	6

Objective

The Fund seeks to provide long-term capital appreciation by investing predominantly in small cap companies.

Suitability

This product is suitable for investors who are seeking

• This product is suitable for Investors who are seeking

• Long term capital appreciation.

• A fund that invests primarily in small and mid cap companies

Fund Analysis

Though the name of fund is smaller companies, its considerable portion is in midcap. It generates satisfactory returns during good times and performs moderately during hostile ones. The superior performance has led to a tremendous increase in the AUM size which might prove to be a concern. But the Management of Franklin has a proven solid track record in managing risk while delivering returns. The trust of AMC in its management and investment mandate is visible by its decision to allow for fresh investments in the fund even with this huge AUM unlike few others in the category.

Franklin Templeton Mutual Fund

AUM

₹1,18,912 Cr

About

The firm specializes in conservatively managed mutual funds. It offers products under the Franklin, Templeton, Mutual Series and Fiduciary brand names. Like other large investment companies, the firm offers a wide variety of funds but is traditionally best known for bond funds under the Franklin brand, international funds under the Templeton brand, and value funds under the Mutual Series brand.##With more than 600 investment professionals in 28 countries around the world, Franklin Templeton is uniquely positioned to look beyond the largest or most visible securities in each market to spot smart global investments that meet their rigorous investment criteria.##Franklin Templeton association with India dates back to over 2 decades as an investor. As part of the group major thrust on investing in markets around the world, the India office was set up in 1996 as Templeton Asset Management India Pvt. Limited.

Phone

1800 425 4255

Address

Indiabulls Finance Centre; Tower 2, 12th and 13th Floor,Senapati Bapat Marg; Elphinstone Road (W) Mumbai 400013, - 400013

Calculate Returns

Investment Amount

Expected Annual Return Rate(%)

Investment Duration

Years

Months

Investment Amount

₹ 10000

Return Amount

₹ 4185

Return Rate

6 %

Duration

6y 0m

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