A fee payable to a mutual fund house for managing your mutual fund investments. It is the total percentage of a company’s fund assets used for administrative, management, advertising, and other expenses.
Average of the yearly returns of a mutual fund over a given period.
Absolute returns
The total return of a mutual fund over a given period.
Returns and rankings
Annualised returns
Absolute returns
Name
6M
1Y
3Y
All
Fund returns
-2.1%
-3.6%
+14.3%
+13.8%
Category average (Equity Value Oriented)
+2.6%
+4.8%
+19.2%
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Rank (Equity Value Oriented)
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29
22
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Expense ratio
A fee payable to a mutual fund house for managing your mutual fund investments. It is the total percentage of a company's fund assets used for administrative, management, advertising, and other expenses.
Tax
A percentage of your capital gains payable to the government upon exiting your mutual fund investments. Taxation is categorized as long-term capital gains (LTCG) and short-term capital gains (STCG) depending on your holding period and the type of fund.
Exit load
A fee payable to a mutual fund house for exiting a fund (fully or partially) before the completion of a specified period from the date of investment.
Stamp duty
A form of tax payable for the purchase or sale of an asset or security.
Exit Load
18 Sep 2023
Exit Load for units in excess of 12% of the investment,1% will be charged for redemption within 12 months.
Exit load, stamp duty and tax
Exit load
Exit Load for units in excess of 12% of the investment,1% will be charged for redemption within 12 months.
Stamp duty on investment: 0.005% (from July 1st, 2020)
from July 1st 2020
Tax implication
If you redeem within one year, returns are taxed at 20%. If you redeem after one year, returns exceeding Rs 1.25 lakh in a financial year are taxed at 12.5%.
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Fund management
SB
Sumit Bhatnagar
Jul 2025 - Present
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Education
Mr. Bhatnagar is an MBA (Investment Management) from University of Toronto, Canada and CFA Charter (USA).
Experience
Prior to joining LIC Mutual Fund. He was assocaited with Indiabulls Mutual Fund he has worked with SEBI.
Mr. Bendre has done B.E(Mechanical), MBA (Finance) and PhD (Finance)
Experience
Prior to joining LIC Mutual Fund, he has worked with IDBI Capital, Vervene Asset Management, Stewart & Mackertich, Karvy Inst. Equity and Way2wealth, Quantum Securities
LIC MF Value Fund Direct Growth is a Equity Mutual Fund Scheme launched by LIC Mutual Fund. This scheme was made available to investors on 20 Apr 1994. Sumit Bhatnagar is the Current Fund Manager of LIC MF Value Fund Direct Growth fund. The fund currently has an Asset Under Management(AUM) of ₹45,363 Cr and the Latest NAV as of 19 Jan 2026 is ₹25.73.
The LIC MF Value Fund Direct Growth is rated Very High risk. Minimum SIP Investment is set to ₹200. Minimum Lumpsum Investment is ₹5,000. Exit Load for units in excess of 12% of the investment,1% will be charged for redemption within 12 months.
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Investment Objective
The Scheme seeks to generate long-term capital appreciation along with regular income by investing predominantly in equity and equity related instruments by following value investing strategy.