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Axis Arbitrage Fund

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All plans and options of Axis Arbitrage Fund
Scheme (as filed with AMFI)PlanOptionNAVAMFI code
Axis Arbitrage Fund — Direct Plan — Growth OptionDirectGrowth Option ₹22.1379 9 Nov 2026 130773
Axis Arbitrage Fund — Direct Plan — Monthly IDCWDirectIDCW ₹12.4290 9 Nov 2026 130774
Axis Arbitrage Fund — Regular Plan — Growth OptionRegularGrowth Option ₹20.1910 9 Nov 2026 130771
Axis Arbitrage Fund — Regular Plan — Monthly IDCWRegularIDCW ₹11.1857 9 Nov 2026 130776

Direct–Growth is the plan and option we treat as this fund's main page, so search engines are pointed there. Everything below is this filing's own data.

Fund basics

Launched21 Aug 2014 12.2 years of history
CategoryArbitrageSEBI classification
Plan & optionRegular · Growth Option code 130771
Benchmark— no equity benchmark for this category
NAV as on9 Nov 2026source AMFI

Computed from 3,014 published NAVs between 21 Aug 2014 and 9 Nov 2026 — 12.2 years of history. Nothing here is an estimate; it is arithmetic on what the fund actually printed.

How it has moved

Return over time (%)

Fund name 1M3M6M1Y3Y5Y7Y10YSince launch
Axis Arbitrage Fund Regular 0.531.352.88 5.986.616.14 5.485.675.90
Arbitrage category median · 31 funds ——— 6.016.516.07 —5.73—

Anything over a year is annualised (CAGR); shorter windows are absolute. The benchmark row is a low-cost index fund that tracks the index, which runs a little below it after the fund's own costs, measured to 9 Nov 2026. The category row is the median Regular plan in Arbitrage — the middle fund, not a ranking, and a median rather than an average so that one mis-stated scheme cannot move it. As on 9 Nov 2026.

Risk measures

Fund name Volatility Sharpe Sortino Beta Alpha Max fall
Axis Arbitrage Fund Regular 0.55 0.20 0.26 — — -0.66

Risk-free rate 6.5%. The benchmark row is a low-cost index fund tracking the index. Beta and alpha need the index as a reference, so the benchmark's own row leaves them blank.

Risk

VolatilityDownside volatilitySharpeSortino
0.6%0.4%0.200.26

Risk-free rate 6.5%, roughly the 10-year government bond.

The worst it has been

Deepest fallTime to recoverToday, from its peak
-0.7%0 monthsAt a high

A drawdown is the fall from a previous high to the low that followed it. It is the number that decides whether somebody stays invested — a fund can have an excellent ten-year return and still have been unbearable to hold in year four.

Every one-year period it has lived through

Best yearMedian yearWorst yearLosing years
8.1%6.0%2.7%0%
Worst2.7%Median6.0%Best8.1%now
The full spread of one-year outcomes, with the fund's actual last twelve months marked. It answers the question a single number cannot: is right now an ordinary year for this fund, or an unusual one?

Rolling returns ask a fairer question than a single five-year figure: not "what did it do from this one start date", but "what happened across every start date". A fund whose worst year is −45% is a different proposition from one whose worst is −8%, even if the averages match.

Calendar years

3.8%20214.2%20226.9%20237.6%20246.3%20255.0%2026MF Analyser
Each year on its own, January to December. Losing years hang below the line — averages hide them, and the years somebody actually had to sit through are the ones that decide whether they stayed.

If you had run a SIP

₹10,000 every month for five years — ₹600,000 invested in all — would be worth ₹705,139 today, an XIRR of 6.40% a year.

XIRR, not CAGR. A SIP's money arrives over sixty months, so most of it has been invested for far less than five years — which is why this figure normally sits below the five-year CAGR above in a rising market, and above it in a falling one. It is the return the investor got, not the return the fund got.

What it actually holds

The real portfolio the AMC filed with AMFI, as on 30 Sep 2026. Nothing here is estimated — when a fund has no filing in our store the section simply does not appear. A fund is its holdings; the returns above are only what those holdings did.

Asset allocation

69.68%Equity
17.22%Debt
13.06%Mutual Fund Units
0.07%Cash & Equivalents

A fund's risk starts here — how much of it is even in the market — before any question of which stocks or which sectors. Cash is not idleness; it is the manager's choice not to be invested, and it shows up as a drag in a rising market and a cushion in a falling one.

Portfolio aggregates

54.44%Large
12.05%Mid
3.19%Small
Large Cap 54.4%54.4%Mid Cap 12.1%12.1%Small Cap 3.2%Unclassified 30.3%30.3%Large Cap 54.4%Mid Cap 12.1%Small Cap 3.2%Unclassified 30.3%
AMFI's half-yearly ranking: 1–100 Large, 101–250 Mid, 251+ Small. The rest is debt, cash, foreign holdings or fund units, which AMFI does not rank.

Concentration

Number of stocks170
Top 5 stocks27.36%
Top 10 stocks37.91%
Top 20 stocks52.78%
Largest single holding13.06%
Largest sectorTransport Infrastructure · —
Number of sectors46
Effective stocks33.1
Cash & equivalents0.07%

Counting positions overstates diversification. The effective-stocks figure is the honest count: a portfolio can hold seventy names and still have most of its money in twenty.

Sector allocation

Banks — 18.6%Unclassified — 13.1%CRISIL A1+ — 10.0%CARE A1+ — 6.3%Finance — 6.3%Telecom - Services — 4.5%Petroleum Products — 4.3%Ferrous Metals — 3.8%Pharmaceuticals & Biotechnology — 3.6%Other — 29.6%Banks18.6%Unclassified13.1%CRISIL A1+10.0%CARE A1+6.3%Finance6.3%Telecom - Services4.5%Petroleum Products4.3%Ferrous Metals3.8%Pharmaceuticals & Biotech…3.6%Other29.6%
Where the equity money sits, by industry.

Largest holdings

Top 10 are 104.6% of the fund. A high number means a concentrated portfolio — fewer names doing more of the work, for better and for worse.

Net Receivables / (Payables) 68.51%
Axis Money Market Fund - Direct Plan - Growth Option 13.06%
HDFC Bank Limited 4.06%
ICICI Bank Limited 3.83%
Reliance Industries Limited 3.77%
Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited 2.64%
State Bank of India 2.63%
Bharti Airtel Limited 2.22%
Canara Bank (10/02/2027) 1.92%
National Bank For Agriculture and Rural Development (10/03/2027) 1.91%
Small Industries Dev Bank of India (04/02/2027) 1.87%
Tata Steel Limited 1.83%

Disclosed holdings from the AMC's AMFI filing, largest first. A portfolio is filed monthly and shifts between filings — this is the most recent one loaded, not a live book.

What the manager did last month

Between the filing of 31 Aug 2026 and 30 Sep 2026. A position grows for two reasons — the manager bought more, or the price went up — and only the first is a decision. The share count is what separates them, because it moves only when somebody trades.

Bought₹919 cr shares added, valued at this filing
Sold₹691 cr shares reduced or exited
New positions12 stocks not held a month ago
Sold out of25 stocks fully exited
Price move of what it held -4.48% the market's doing, not the manager's

Swipe the table sideways for share counts, price change and values.

Stock Shares traded Change in shares Change in price Value of the trade₹ crore Position now₹ crore
New positiondid not hold this a month ago 8
Astral Limited 262,225 entered — 35.9 35.9
SBI Cards and Payment Services Limited 447,200 entered — 25.9 25.9
Swiggy Limited 742,775 entered — 18.6 18.6
Laurus Labs Limited 51,000 entered — 10.1 10.1
Mphasis Limited 40,150 entered — 8.7 8.7
KEI Industries Limited 18,725 entered — 8.3 8.3
Eternal Limited 77,600 entered — 2.5 2.5
Titan Company Limited 4,025 entered — 1.9 1.9
Added tobought more shares than last month 8
Infosys Limited 954,000 +435.2% -12.3% 94.8 117
Reliance Industries Limited 535,500 +19.9% -7.1% 63.6 383
Cummins India Limited 121,200 +68.0% -6.8% 57.7 143
State Bank of India 591,750 +27.0% -9.5% 56.8 267
ICICI Bank Limited 428,400 +17.0% -9.1% 56.6 390
HDFC Bank Limited 663,000 +12.8% 0.0% 47.0 413
APL Apollo Tubes Limited 199,850 +159.5% -1.5% 43.8 71.2
LIC Housing Finance Limited 790,000 +143.4% -1.5% 41.9 71.1
Trimmedcut the share count, without selling out 8
DLF Limited 1,176,100 -99.9% -2.5% 79.3 0.1
Bharat Electronics Limited 1,681,500 -33.2% -6.3% 65.3 132
Hitachi Energy India Limited 15,575 -74.4% -9.3% 47.7 16.4
Eicher Motors Limited 47,700 -97.4% -10.1% 34.1 0.9
Tata Power Company Limited 906,250 -77.6% +3.5% 32.5 9.4
NBCC (India) Limited 4,121,000 -88.9% -8.9% 32.4 4.0
One 97 Communications Limited 174,000 -88.6% -2.3% 29.2 3.8
Solar Industries India Limited 13,600 -98.9% -2.0% 26.8 0.3
Sold out ofheld last month, gone this month 8
UNO Minda Limited 225,500 exited — 28.8 —
Tech Mahindra Limited 114,000 exited — 18.6 —
Bosch Limited 2,825 exited — 14.1 —
ICICI Lombard General Insurance Company Limited 78,650 exited — 12.3 —
Central Depository Services (India) Limited 74,100 exited — 10.4 —
Hero MotoCorp Limited 18,300 exited — 10.0 —
Grasim Industries Limited 11,250 exited — 3.8 —
Cochin Shipyard Limited 24,400 exited — 3.7 —

Only stocks and fund units are listed. Treasury bills, repo and money-market lines roll over every month by design — they are larger in rupees than most equity trades and are not decisions, so they are summarised as cash above rather than listed as activity. Share counts and values are the fund house's own filing. What a position cost when it was first bought is in no monthly disclosure, so a value here is what the shares were worth at the later filing, not what was paid.

One caveat on the share count: a corporate action — a stock split, a bonus issue, a merger, or an ISIN change — also moves the number of shares without the manager trading, and a monthly disclosure does not flag it. A sudden clean multiple (a doubling, a halving) is more likely a split than a decision. Treat a single large, round jump as something to check against the stock's own corporate-action history rather than as the manager buying or selling.

How it compares in its category

Against the Arbitrage Regular schemes with the highest three-year return. Same category, same plan — the only comparison that means anything. The list re-sorts itself as returns move; it is an ordering by one number, not a view on which fund anyone should hold.

Return window
Scheme Return Alpha Beta Volatility Sharpe Max fall
Axis Arbitrage Fund Axis Mutual Fund · this scheme 6.6% — — 0.6% 0.20 -0.7%
Kotak Arbitrage Fund Kotak Mahindra Mutual Fund 6.8% — — 0.6% 0.52 -0.6%
Invesco India Arbitrage Fund Invesco Mutual Fund 6.8% — — 0.5% 0.48 -0.5%
UTI - Arbitrage Fund UTI Mutual Fund 6.8% — — 0.6% 0.47 -0.7%
HDFC Arbitrage Fund HDFC Mutual Fund 6.7% — — 0.6% 0.40 -0.7%
ICICI Prudential Arbitrage Fund ICICI Prudential Mutual Fund 6.7% — — 0.6% 0.37 -1.2%
SBI Arbitrage Fund SBI Mutual Fund 6.7% — — 0.5% 0.41 -0.7%
Edelweiss Arbitrage Fund Edelweiss Mutual Fund 6.7% — — 0.6% 0.29 -0.5%
ADITYA BIRLA SUN LIFE ARBITRAGE FUND Aditya Birla Sun Life Mutual Fund 6.6% — — 0.6% 0.26 -0.9%

Alpha and beta are against the category index. Max fall is the deepest peak-to-trough drop in each fund's own history, so a longer-running fund has had more chances to record a bad one. Click a column to sort. This is a sort, not a ranking, and nothing here is a recommendation.

Compare Axis Arbitrage Fund side by side

Returns, risk ratios, portfolio overlap, sectors and market-cap split against each of the other 39 Arbitrage funds.

What a Arbitrage scheme is

Buying in the cash market and selling in futures, capturing the spread.

Returns look like a short-term debt fund but are taxed as equity, which is the reason these exist. Returns depend on market activity — in quiet markets the spread thins and so does the return.

Who it suits. Parking money for a few months to a year in a taxable account.

How long money should stay. 6 months to 1 year.

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Questions people ask

What is the NAV of Axis Arbitrage Fund — Regular Plan — Growth Option?

₹20.1910 as on 9 Nov 2026, from AMFI's daily NAV file. NAV is declared once each business day after markets close, so the figure here is the most recent one published.

What is the difference between the Direct and Regular plan of Axis Arbitrage Fund?

They hold the identical portfolio, run by the same manager. A Regular plan pays a distributor commission out of the fund, inside its expense ratio — commonly 0.5% to 1.2% a year more than Direct. That difference is charged on the whole balance every year, so it compounds. As an illustration, not a forecast: ₹1,00,000 invested for ten years at 12% a year ends at about ₹3.11 lakh, but at 10.5% — a 1.5 percentage-point gap and nothing else changed — it ends at about ₹2.71 lakh, roughly ₹40,000 less. The longer you hold, the wider the gap. Direct is the same fund without the commission.

What does the Growth option mean?

Growth reinvests everything the fund earns back into the NAV. Nothing is paid out, so the NAV rises with returns and you are taxed only when you sell. For anybody who does not need income from the investment, Growth is the simpler and usually the more tax-efficient option.

What kind of scheme is this?

Buying in the cash market and selling in futures, capturing the spread. Returns look like a short-term debt fund but are taxed as equity, which is the reason these exist. Returns depend on market activity — in quiet markets the spread thins and so does the return.

How long should money stay in it?

Typically 6 months to 1 year. Parking money for a few months to a year in a taxable account.