New Delhi, April 24 -- If you have some dry powder and are looking for the 'right' mutual fund scheme to invest, it is recommended to examine the returns delivered by the scheme vis-a-vis other schemes in the same category. This gives an indication of the scope of returns which a mutual fund scheme can deliver.

Here, we list out the past five-year returns delivered by sectoral or thematic mutual funds. Sectoral funds refer to the schemes which invest at least 80 percent in the stocks of a particular sector or theme. There are a total of 212 sectoral/thematic schemes with a total asset size of Rs.4.55 lakh crore.

For the uninitiated, sectoral funds are the ones which invest in a particular sector of the economy such as infrastructure, ba...