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Axis Liquid Fund

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This scheme has not published a NAV since 5 May 2020 — 6.4 years ago. It has most likely matured, merged or been wound up, so every figure below is a record of what it did up to that date, not a current price. Do not read it as a fund you can buy today.

Fund basics

Launched7 May 2014 12.4 years of history
CategoryLiquid FundsSEBI classification
Plan & optionDirect · Bonus Option code 128954
Benchmark— no equity benchmark for this category
NAV as on5 May 2020source AMFI

Computed from 2,080 published NAVs between 7 May 2014 and 5 May 2020 — 6.0 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 Liquid Fund Direct 0.451.482.81 6.126.887.21 ——7.51
Liquid Funds category median · 36 funds ——— 6.486.946.34 —6.12—

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 Liquid Funds — the middle fund, not a ranking, and a median rather than an average so that one mis-stated scheme cannot move it. As on 5 May 2020.

Risk measures

Fund name Volatility Sharpe Sortino Beta Alpha Max fall
Axis Liquid Fund Direct 0.17 2.19 8.30 — — -0.15

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

Risk

VolatilityDownside volatilitySharpeSortino
0.2%0.0%2.198.30

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

The worst it has been

Deepest fallTime to recoverToday, from its peak
-0.1%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
9.0%7.5%6.0%0%
Worst6.0%Median7.5%Best9.0%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

8.4%20157.7%20166.8%20177.5%20186.7%20192.0%2020MF 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 ₹714,243 today, an XIRR of 6.92% 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

91.11%Debt
8.71%Cash & Equivalents
0.20%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 91.3%91.3%Unclassified 91.3%
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 stocks135
Top 5 stocks14.35%
Top 10 stocks23.03%
Top 20 stocks36.87%
Largest single holding4.49%
Largest sectorCRISIL A1+ · 36.04%
Number of sectors8
Effective stocks85.0
Cash & equivalents8.71%

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 A1+ — 36.0%ICRA A1+ — 21.8%CARE A1+ — 13.4%Sovereign — 11.4%Cash & Equivalents — 8.7%IND A1+ — 5.1%CRISIL AAA — 3.3%Other — 0.2%CRISIL A1+36.0%ICRA A1+21.8%CARE A1+13.4%Sovereign11.4%Cash & Equivalents8.7%IND A1+5.1%CRISIL AAA3.3%Other0.2%
Where the equity money sits, by industry.

Largest holdings

Top 10 are 28.7% 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 7.27%
91 Days Tbill (MD 17/09/2026) 4.49%
HDFC Bank Limited (16/10/2026) 3.13%
National Bank For Agriculture and Rural Development (30/11/2026) 2.33%
91 Days Tbill (MD 15/10/2026) 2.31%
HDFC Bank Limited (10/09/2026) 2.09%
HDFC Bank Limited (16/09/2026) 2.05%
Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited (29/09/2026) 1.89%
Tata Steel Limited (03/09/2026) 1.58%
National Bank For Agriculture and Rural Development (03/09/2026) 1.58%
Export Import Bank of India (07/09/2026) 1.58%
91 Days Tbill (MD 19/11/2026) 1.57%

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₹496 cr shares added, valued at this filing
Sold₹1,620 cr shares reduced or exited
New positions107 stocks not held a month ago
Sold out of116 stocks fully exited
Price move of what it held +1.25% 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
91 Days Tbill (MD 17/09/2026) 300,000,000 entered — 2,980 2,980
HDFC Bank Limited (16/10/2026) 40,000 entered — 1,972 1,972
Export Import Bank of India (03/09/2026) 35,500 entered — 1,765 1,765
91 Days Tbill (MD 15/10/2026) 147,500,000 entered — 1,459 1,459
HDFC Bank Limited (10/09/2026) 26,500 entered — 1,316 1,316
HDFC Bank Limited (16/09/2026) 26,000 entered — 1,289 1,289
Indian Bank (08/09/2026) 24,000 entered — 1,192 1,192
Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited (29/09/2026) 24,000 entered — 1,188 1,188
Added tobought more shares than last month 3
7.64% Power Finance Corporation Limited (25/08/2026) 37,370 +213.5% +0.2% 374 549
364 Days Tbill (MD 06/08/2026) 10,000,000 +25.0% +0.9% 99.9 500
SBI - Corporate Debt Market Development Fund (CDMDF) - Class A2 18,592 +21.5% +1.1% 22.2 125
Trimmedcut the share count, without selling out 6
HDFC Bank Limited (25/08/2026) 15,000 -93.8% +1.3% 747 49.8
HDFC Securities Limited (06/08/2026) 7,000 -77.8% +1.4% 350 99.9
HDFC Securities Limited (12/08/2026) 4,500 -90.0% +1.4% 225 25.0
Bajaj Finance Limited (13/08/2026) 4,000 -57.1% +1.4% 200 150
91 Days Tbill (MD 13/08/2026) 5,000,000 -10.0% +0.9% 49.9 449
Nuvama Wealth Finance Limited (24/08/2026) 1,000 -33.3% +1.6% 49.8 99.5
Sold out ofheld last month, gone this month 8
91 Days Tbill (MD 11/06/2026) 179,000,000 exited — 1,787 —
National Bank For Agriculture and Rural Development (09/06/2026) 35,000 exited — 1,748 —
Union Bank of India (23/07/2026) 25,000 exited — 1,237 —
91 Days Tbill (MD 04/06/2026) 123,560,400 exited — 1,235 —
Bank of Baroda (12/08/2026) 25,000 exited — 1,232 —
182 Days Tbill (MD 30/07/2026) 111,500,000 exited — 1,105 —
Bank of Baroda (17/06/2026) 22,000 exited — 1,097 —
Reliance Retail Ventures Limited (22/06/2026) 20,000 exited — 996 —

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 Liquid Funds 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 Liquid Fund Axis Mutual Fund · this scheme 6.9% — — 0.2% 2.19 -0.1%
Aditya Birla Sun Life Liquid Fund Aditya Birla Sun Life Mutual Fund 7.0% — — 0.2% 2.26 -0.2%
Axis Liquid Fund Axis Mutual Fund 7.0% — — 0.2% 2.80 -0.2%
Sundaram Liquid Fund (Formerly Known as Principal Cash Management Fund) Sundaram Mutual Fund 7.0% — — 0.2% 2.80 0.0%
Franklin India Liquid Fund Franklin Templeton Mutual Fund 7.0% — — 0.2% 2.12 -0.2%
DSP Liquid Fund DSP Mutual Fund 7.0% — — 0.2% 2.22 -0.2%
Mahindra Manulife Liquid Fund Mahindra Manulife Mutual Fund 7.0% — — 0.2% 2.01 -0.2%
Nippon India Liquid Fund Nippon India Mutual Fund 7.0% — — 0.2% 2.08 -0.2%
PGIM India Liquid Fund PGIM India Mutual Fund 7.0% — — 0.2% 2.55 -0.1%

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 Liquid Funds scheme is

Debt maturing within 91 days.

The place money waits. Redemption reaches the bank in one working day, and a small instant-redemption limit is usually available. Not a savings account, and not guaranteed — but as close as a fund gets.

Who it suits. Emergency money and anything needed within weeks.

How long money should stay. Days to 3 months.

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Questions people ask

What is the NAV of Axis Liquid Fund — Direct Plan — Bonus Option?

₹2,215.5705 as on 5 May 2020, 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 Liquid 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 Bonus 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?

Debt maturing within 91 days. The place money waits. Redemption reaches the bank in one working day, and a small instant-redemption limit is usually available. Not a savings account, and not guaranteed — but as close as a fund gets.

How long should money stay in it?

Typically Days to 3 months. Emergency money and anything needed within weeks.