Top performing ELSS Funds in the last three years

Generally, a mutual fund offers a variety of schemes with the aim to cater to different types of investors. In India, people are always in search of instruments that offer them to save their taxes. Looking at this desire of investors mutual funds came up with the tax-saving scheme known as Equity Linked Saving Scheme (ELSS). This is an open-ended equity-oriented scheme with a statutory lock-in period of three years. The scheme invests at least 80 per cent of total assets towards equity and equity-related instruments. Tax benefits are the most attractive aspect of these funds and you get tax benefit u/s 80C of Income Tax Act, 1961 up to Rs 1.5 lakh. 

Following table depicts the top ELSS Funds based on the three-year return along with its AUM and Expense ratio: