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AXIS Corporate Bond Fund

Fund basics

Launched18 Jul 2017 9.2 years of history
CategoryCorporate BondSEBI classification
Plan & optionDirect · Growth Option code 141588
Benchmark— no equity benchmark for this category
NAV as on25 Sep 2026source AMFI

Computed from 2,226 published NAVs between 18 Jul 2017 and 16 Sep 2026 — 9.2 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 Corporate Bond Fund Direct -0.151.213.00 5.677.666.75 7.44—7.45
Corporate Bond category median · 24 funds ——— 4.827.076.25 —7.21—

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 Direct plan in Corporate Bond — 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 Corporate Bond Fund Direct 1.98 0.59 0.78 — — -3.81

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

Risk

VolatilityDownside volatilitySharpeSortino
2.0%1.5%0.590.78

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

The worst it has been

Deepest fallTime to recoverToday, from its peak
-3.8%4 monthsAt a high
0%-1%-3%-4%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
13.3%7.6%2.9%0%
Worst2.9%Median7.6%Best13.3%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

4.4%20214.4%20227.5%20238.7%20248.6%20253.8%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 ₹720,954 today, an XIRR of 7.28% 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

86.46%Debt
13.14%Cash & Equivalents
0.35%AIF Units

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

—Large
—Mid
—Small
Unclassified 86.8%86.8%Unclassified 86.8%
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 stocks120
Top 5 stocks14.20%
Top 10 stocks25.25%
Top 20 stocks42.23%
Largest single holding3.48%
Largest sectorCRISIL AAA · 57.08%
Number of sectors10
Effective stocks76.4
Cash & equivalents13.14%

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

CRISIL AAA — 57.1%Cash & Equivalents — 13.1%ICRA AAA — 10.4%Sovereign — 8.0%CRISIL AAA(SO) — 5.6%Other — 5.8%CRISIL AAA57.1%Cash & Equivalents13.1%ICRA AAA10.4%Sovereign8.0%CRISIL AAA(SO)5.6%Other5.8%
Where the equity money sits, by industry.

Largest holdings

Top 10 are 34.5% of the fund. A high number means a concentrated portfolio — fewer names doing more of the work, for better and for worse.

Clearing Corporation of India Ltd 8.54%
Net Receivables / (Payables) 4.59%
6.85% National Bank For Agriculture and Rural Development (19/01/2029) 3.48%
6.94% Government of India (11/05/2036) 3.15%
7.66% Bajaj Housing Finance Limited (20/03/2028) 2.57%
Tata Capital Limited (21/02/2029) (FRN) 2.56%
Siddhivinayak Securitisation Trust (28/09/2030) 2.44%
7.4% Bharti Telecom Limited (01/02/2029) 2.40%
7.83% Small Industries Dev Bank of India (24/11/2028) 2.39%
7.7% Nuclear Power Corporation Of India Limited (21/03/2038) 2.39%
8.25% Bajaj Housing Finance Limited (27/05/2031) 1.94%
7.48% National Bank For Agriculture and Rural Development (15/09/2028) 1.93%

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 May 2026 and 31 Jul 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₹932 cr shares added, valued at this filing
Sold₹1,217 cr shares reduced or exited
New positions22 stocks not held a month ago
Sold out of26 stocks fully exited
Price move of what it held +0.87% 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
7.57% LIC Housing Finance Limited (23/11/2029) 20,000 entered — 200 200
8.25% Bajaj Housing Finance Limited (27/05/2031) 15,000 entered — 153 153
7.71% Government of India (18/05/2066) 13,000,000 entered — 132 132
7.4% Small Industries Dev Bank of India (18/06/2031) 11,500 entered — 115 115
7.17% Karnataka State Development Loans (29/01/2030) 10,000,000 entered — 101 101
7.64% Bajaj Housing Finance Limited (01/07/2030) 10,000 entered — 99.9 99.9
7.725% Larsen & Toubro Limited (28/04/2028) 7,500 entered — 75.6 75.6
7.92% Bajaj Finance Limited (24/06/2031) 6,213 entered — 62.2 62.2
Added tobought more shares than last month 8
6.94% Government of India (11/05/2036) 22,000,000 +550.0% +1.0% 222 262
7.66% Bajaj Housing Finance Limited (20/03/2028) 15,000 +300.0% +0.7% 150 200
Tata Capital Limited (21/02/2029) (FRN) 15,000 +300.0% -0.3% 150 200
7.22% Small Industries Dev Bank of India (10/04/2029) 12,500 +71.4% +1.1% 124 299
7.65% Tamilnadu State Development Loans (25/01/2033) 5,000,000 +200.0% +2.2% 51.0 76.6
7.7% Nuclear Power Corporation Of India Limited (21/03/2038) 5,000 +37.0% +0.7% 50.3 186
7.44% National Bank For Agriculture and Rural Development (24/02/2028) 5,000 +66.7% +0.6% 50.0 125
6.78% Indian Railway Finance Corporation Limited (30/04/2030) 5,000 +200.0% +1.8% 49.3 74.0
Trimmedcut the share count, without selling out 8
7.3763% Bajaj Finance Limited (26/06/2028) 21,500 -87.8% +0.7% 214 29.8
7.62% National Bank For Agriculture and Rural Development (31/01/2028) 17,500 -72.8% +0.6% 175 65.6
6.48% Government of India (06/10/2035) 13,000,000 -56.2% +1.3% 127 99.0
7.24% Government of India (18/08/2055) 9,000,000 -78.3% +2.0% 87.6 24.3
7.6% Power Finance Corporation Limited (13/04/2029) 7,500 -88.2% +1.2% 75.5 10.1
7.48% National Bank For Agriculture and Rural Development (15/09/2028) 7,000 -48.3% +0.8% 70.1 75.1
6.68% Government of India (07/07/2040) 6,500,000 -46.4% +2.9% 63.1 72.8
7.65% HDB Financial Services Limited (10/09/2027) 600 -96.8% +0.4% 59.9 2.0
Sold out ofheld last month, gone this month 8
ICICI Bank Limited (25/03/2027) 5,000 exited — 235 —
7.02% Bajaj Housing Finance Limited (26/05/2028) 17,500 exited — 172 —
6.95% REC Limited (18/02/2028) 15,000 exited — 148 —
7.87% IndiGrid Infrastructure Trust (24/02/2027) 12,500 exited — 125 —
7.6% Kotak Mahindra Prime Limited (19/05/2028) 11,000 exited — 109 —
7.89% Summit Digitel Infrastructure Limited (30/04/2029) 10,000 exited — 100 —
7.56% REC Limited (31/08/2027) 10,000 exited — 99.6 —
HDFC Bank Limited (24/02/2027) 2,000 exited — 94.5 —

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 Corporate Bond Direct 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 Corporate Bond Fund Axis Mutual Fund · this scheme 7.7% — — 2.0% 0.59 -3.8%
Franklin India Corporate Bond Fund Franklin Templeton Mutual Fund 8.0% — — 2.2% 0.69 -7.4%
BARODA BNP PARIBAS CORPORATE BOND FUND Baroda BNP Paribas Mutual Fund 7.7% — — 1.2% 1.01 -2.3%
Nippon India Corporate Bond Fund Nippon India Mutual Fund 7.5% — — 1.1% 0.96 -1.7%
DSP Corporate Bond Fund DSP Mutual Fund 7.4% — — 1.6% 0.55 -3.2%
ICICI Prudential Corporate Bond Fund ICICI Prudential Mutual Fund 7.4% — — 1.2% 0.76 -2.0%
Kotak Corporate Bond Fund Kotak Mahindra Mutual Fund 7.4% — — 1.4% 0.63 -1.9%
BANDHAN Corporate Bond Fund Bandhan Mutual Fund 7.3% — — 1.7% 0.48 -3.5%
UTI - Corporate Bond Fund UTI Mutual Fund 7.3% — — 1.7% 0.47 -3.0%

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.

What a Corporate Bond scheme is

At least 80% in the highest-rated corporate debt.

AA+ and above only. Better yields than government paper with credit risk kept deliberately small — the category exists precisely to avoid the trade-off credit risk funds make.

Who it suits. Conservative investors wanting more than a gilt fund without reaching for risk.

How long money should stay. 3 years or more.

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Questions people ask

What is the NAV of AXIS Corporate Bond Fund — Direct Plan — Growth Option?

₹19.3594 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 Corporate Bond 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 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?

At least 80% in the highest-rated corporate debt. AA+ and above only. Better yields than government paper with credit risk kept deliberately small — the category exists precisely to avoid the trade-off credit risk funds make.

How long should money stay in it?

Typically 3 years or more. Conservative investors wanting more than a gilt fund without reaching for risk.