Best mutual funds, Aug. 8 -- When investing in a mutual fund scheme, investors often examine the scheme's returns and compare them with those of other schemes in the same category.

Although past returns may not continue in the future, investors often base their investment decisions on how a scheme has performed in the past.

Here, we list the past performance of the 10 best-performing small-cap mutual funds, which have delivered an annualised return of 30 per cent.

To put this perspective, an annual return of 30 per cent means that if someone invests Rs.1 lakh, this growth rate would allow the investment to become Rs.3,71,293 after five years.

Small-cap mutual funds refer to schemes that have invested 65 per cent of their assets in sma...