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Axis Balanced Advantage Fund

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Fund basics

Launched7 Aug 2017 9.1 years of history
CategoryBalanced AdvantageSEBI classification
Plan & optionRegular · IDCW Option code 141645
BenchmarkNifty 100 used for alpha & beta below
NAV as on25 Sep 2026source AMFI

Computed from 2,252 published NAVs between 7 Aug 2017 and 16 Sep 2026 — 9.1 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 Balanced Advantage Fund Regular -2.83-1.011.44 -7.031.32-0.08 2.16—2.57
Nifty 100 benchmark 0.253.49-1.52 1.8410.529.38 ——12.79
Balanced Advantage category median · 14 funds ——— -0.887.955.80 ———

Anything over a year is annualised (CAGR); shorter windows are absolute. The benchmark row is the index fund named below, priced daily by AMFI like every other scheme here. The category row is the median Regular plan in Balanced Advantage — the middle fund, not a ranking, and a median rather than an average so that one mis-stated scheme cannot move it. As on 25 Sep 2026.

Risk measures

Fund name Volatility Sharpe Sortino Beta Alpha Max fall
Axis Balanced Advantage Fund Regular 10.11 -0.51 -0.62 0.48 -6.76 -18.66
Nifty 100 benchmark 17.12 0.23 0.32 —— -37.03

Risk-free rate 6.5%. Beta and alpha need an index, so the benchmark's own row leaves them blank.

Risk

VolatilityDownside volatilitySharpeSortino
10.1%8.4%-0.51-0.62

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

The worst it has been

Deepest fallTime to recoverToday, from its peak
-18.7%9 months-13.3%
0%-7%-14%-21%20182020202220242026
How far below its own record high the fund sat, on every single day it has existed. Flat along the top means it was making new highs; every dip is a stretch where somebody who bought at the wrong moment was down.

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
26.8%3.1%-15.0%36%
Worst-15.0%Median3.1%Best26.8%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

5.7%2021-8.9%202212.6%20238.2%2024-0.8%2025-9.6%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 ₹602,382 today, an XIRR of 0.16% 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. 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

75.24%Equity
21.07%Debt
1.99%REITs / InvITs
1.72%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

60.09%Large
9.78%Mid
4.99%Small
Large Cap 60.1%60.1%Mid Cap 9.8%9.8%Small Cap 5.0%Unclassified 23.4%23.4%Large Cap 60.1%Mid Cap 9.8%Small Cap 5.0%Unclassified 23.4%
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 stocks161
Top 5 stocks21.92%
Top 10 stocks33.06%
Top 20 stocks47.69%
Largest single holding6.08%
Largest sectorConsumable Fuels · —
Number of sectors46
Effective stocks55.6
Cash & equivalents1.72%

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 — 19.3%CRISIL AAA — 6.2%Sovereign — 5.8%Petroleum Products — 4.9%Automobiles — 4.7%CRISIL AA+ — 4.7%Finance — 4.5%IT - Software — 3.8%Pharmaceuticals & Biotechnology — 3.6%Other — 42.6%Banks19.3%CRISIL AAA6.2%Sovereign5.8%Petroleum Products4.9%Automobiles4.7%CRISIL AA+4.7%Finance4.5%IT - Software3.8%Pharmaceuticals & Biotech…3.6%Other42.6%
Where the equity money sits, by industry.

Largest holdings

Top 10 are 44.6% 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) 13.40%
ICICI Bank Limited 6.08%
HDFC Bank Limited 5.38%
Reliance Industries Limited 4.54%
State Bank of India 3.53%
Infosys Limited 2.39%
Bharti Airtel Limited 2.34%
Larsen & Toubro Limited 2.32%
Kotak Mahindra Bank Limited 2.29%
Mahindra & Mahindra Limited 2.29%
Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Limited 1.90%
Apollo Hospitals Enterprise Limited 1.82%

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 Jul 2026 and 31 Aug 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₹59.4 cr shares added, valued at this filing
Sold₹133 cr shares reduced or exited
New positions4 stocks not held a month ago
Sold out of5 stocks fully exited
Price move of what it held +0.39% 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 4
Embassy Office Parks REIT 803,334 entered — 35.2 35.2
Delhivery Limited 266,801 entered — 12.2 12.2
Multi Commodity Exchange of India Limited 17,962 entered — 6.1 6.1
GE Vernova T&D India Limited 12,884 entered — 5.7 5.7
Added tobought more shares than last month 8
Axis Bank Limited 83,618 +23.4% +5.7% 10.9 57.4
Piramal Pharma Limited 331,681 +177.0% +9.6% 7.1 11.1
Bharat Electronics Limited 136,141 +107.4% +6.9% 5.6 10.9
Indus Towers Limited 137,712 +58.1% -0.6% 5.4 14.6
Tata Consumer Products Limited 45,233 +31.3% -4.2% 4.7 19.7
Bharti Airtel Limited 22,714 +4.8% -8.1% 4.1 89.6
Computer Age Management Services Limited 37,533 +26.7% -1.8% 2.9 13.9
Tata Capital Limited 68,772 +20.6% +0.7% 2.5 14.8
Trimmedcut the share count, without selling out 8
Mahindra & Mahindra Limited 60,400 -18.4% -3.4% 19.8 87.7
Titan Company Limited 35,525 -41.9% +4.7% 18.1 25.1
Divi's Laboratories Limited 17,500 -51.5% +17.5% 16.6 15.6
Pidilite Industries Limited 81,607 -36.9% +4.7% 13.8 23.6
Shriram Finance Limited 82,500 -19.7% +6.0% 9.2 37.4
Hindalco Industries Limited 79,800 -56.7% +4.2% 8.1 6.2
Sona BLW Precision Forgings Limited 84,525 -20.9% +5.7% 6.9 26.1
TVS Motor Company Limited 12,600 -15.4% +0.7% 5.5 30.0
Sold out ofheld last month, gone this month 5
Brigade Enterprises Limited 117,797 exited — 6.8 —
PI Industries Limited 21,205 exited — 5.8 —
Wework India Management Limited 77,970 exited — 5.8 —
Laurus Labs Limited 11,900 exited — 2.2 —
Biocon Limited 12,500 exited — 0.5 —

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.

How it compares in its category

Against the Balanced Advantage 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 Balanced Advantage Fund Axis Mutual Fund · this scheme 1.3% -6.8% 0.48 10.1% -0.51 -18.7%
quant Dynamic Asset Allocation Fund quant Mutual Fund 10.7% 3.5% 0.98 13.6% 0.31 -18.9%
WhiteOak Capital Balanced Advantage Fund WhiteOak Capital Mutual Fund 9.6% 2.6% 0.59 7.7% 0.40 -10.0%
Mahindra Manulife Balanced Advantage Fund Mahindra Manulife Mutual Fund 8.7% 1.3% 0.61 9.4% 0.23 -10.4%
SBI Balanced Advantage Fund SBI Mutual Fund 8.2% 2.0% 0.49 6.3% 0.28 -7.6%
Mirae Asset Balanced Advantage Fund Mirae Asset Mutual Fund 8.1% 2.0% 0.54 7.0% 0.23 -8.1%
HSBC Balanced Advantage Fund HSBC Mutual Fund 7.7% 1.7% 0.47 6.5% 0.18 -8.9%
Franklin India Balanced Advantage Fund Franklin Templeton Mutual Fund 7.7% 1.6% 0.51 6.7% 0.17 -8.5%
ITI Balanced Advantage Fund ITI Mutual Fund 7.1% -5.2% 0.64 12.6% 0.04 -33.9%

Alpha and beta are against Nifty 100. 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.

What a Balanced Advantage scheme is

Equity and debt moved dynamically, by a model.

The equity share rises when the market looks cheap and falls when it looks expensive, decided by a formula rather than a mood. Read the fund's model — they differ enormously, and it is the entire product.

Who it suits. Investors who want somebody else to decide when to be cautious.

How long money should stay. 3 to 5 years.

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Questions people ask

What is the NAV of Axis Balanced Advantage Fund — Regular Plan — IDCW Option?

₹12.7200 as on 25 Sep 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 Balanced Advantage 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: on ₹1,00,000 held ten years a gap of 1.5 percentage points is roughly ₹1.4 lakh of ending value. Direct is the same fund without the commission.

What does the IDCW Option option mean?

An IDCW option pays part of the fund's gains out to you, and the NAV falls by exactly what it pays. It is not extra return — it is your own money returned, taxed at your slab rate. That also means a return computed from NAV alone understates an IDCW scheme, which is why no CAGR is shown here for it.

What kind of scheme is this?

Equity and debt moved dynamically, by a model. The equity share rises when the market looks cheap and falls when it looks expensive, decided by a formula rather than a mood. Read the fund's model — they differ enormously, and it is the entire product.

How long should money stay in it?

Typically 3 to 5 years. Investors who want somebody else to decide when to be cautious.