New Delhi, May 6 -- Before you invest in a mutual fund scheme, it is quite normal to first review the past returns of that scheme. Although past returns are not guaranteed, they tend to give an indication of the future returns.

Here, we take a case study of DSP Flexi Cap Fund to see how much this scheme could have generated by investing via an SIP.

This is a randomly picked scheme and we are using it only to demonstrate the return a mutual fund scheme can deliver over a long period of time. This scheme was launched on April 29, 1997. Its total asset size is Rs.11,154 crore, as on March 31, 2025.

These are the returns delivered by this scheme on its SIP amounting to Rs.10,000.

As we can see in the table above, if someone had invested R...