Despite volatility in the stock market, Reliance Mutual Fund expects 80 per cent growth in its asset base and 100 per cent jump in its size of investors.

"Our compound annual growth rate has been 80 per cent during the last two years and we would like to maintain the same growth level during this fiscal as well," Reliance Capital [Get Quote] Asset Management Ltd Deputy CEO Sundeep Sikka said in Chandigarh on Monday.

Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group Company had an asset under management of Rs 26,000 crore (Rs 260 billion) in 2006-07 which grew to Rs 92,000 crore (Rs 920 billion) in 2007-08. As on May 31, the total assets under management of the company have reached Rs 98,430 crore (Rs 984.3 billion).

"Investors especially retail have become more mature and invest for longer term. So we have not witnessed any panic among retail investors during the recent downfall of the stock market," he said.

The company is also looking at significant jump in its investors' base during this fiscal. "We hope to observe 100 per cent jump in our investors base in this year as well," he said.

The company had investors base of 35 lakh in 2006-07 and  67 lakh in 2007-08. As on date, it has over 70 lakh investors.

To expand its reach, the company plans to have presence in 500 locations this year. "We have presence in 300 cities as of now and we plan to increase our presence to 500 locations within in this fiscal," he  said.

The company has 36 schemes at present, of which 19 are equity related and 17 are debt-oriented schemes.