NEW DELHI: Money managers handling mutual funds are playing it safe and betting on the top 10 stocks in the bourses, ensuring that their funds perform in line with the overall market. In fact, these blue-chip companies are attracting 28% of mutual fund investment in the equity market.

According to a Sunday ET analysis, out of the Rs 143,860 cr being invested in stocks by mutual funds, as much as Rs 40,246 cr has been invested in just 10 scrips — Reliance Industries, Oil & Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC), Bharti Airtel, State Bank of India (SBI), ICICI Bank, Infosys Technologies , Larsen & Toubro (L&T ), Bharat Heavy Electricals (BHEL), Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) and HDFC Bank.

Significantly, the first five have an allocation of around 18% of the total equity investment of the mutual fund industry. Also, the 10 frontline stocks have high weightage in the Sensex index. Their cumulative weightage is around 59% in the Sensex in terms of market capitalisation as on September 16.

The Sunday ET analysis was done on the basis of the data provided by Value Research India, an independent investment information provider. The figures are as on August 31.

According to Kenneth Andrade, head investments at IDFC Mutual Fund, there is a correlation between the weightage of these companies in the overall market capitalization of listed entities and the investments made by the mutual fund industry.

So far as individual holdings are concerned , Reliance Industries and ONGC attracted around 4% of the total equity investment of the mutual fund industry each. Bharti Airtel, SBI, ICICI Bank and Infosys Technologies were allocated 3% of the total amount each.

source: Economictimes

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