Business Cycle Funds Defy Market Downturn, Deliver Over 18% Returns

• Business Cycle Funds have delivered over 18% returns despite a year of stock market volatility, outperforming Sensex and Nifty.
• ICICI Prudential's Business Cycle Fund led with 18.12% in one year and 22.82% in three years.
• The fund aims for long-term capital growth by investing opportunistically across sectors based on business cycles.
• A 1 lakh rupee investment in ICICI Prudential's fund at launch would now be 2.51 lakh rupees, outperforming Nifty-500 TRI.
• SIPs of 10,000 rupees monthly in the fund yielded an 18.47% annualized return, growing to 9.74 lakh rupees from 6.10 lakh invested.