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Franklin India Arbitrage Fund

Option Growth IDCW
Category Arbitrage →

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Fund basics

Launched19 Nov 2024 1.9 years of history
CategoryArbitrageSEBI classification
Plan & optionRegular · IDCW code 153044
Benchmark— no equity benchmark for this category
NAV as on25 Sep 2026source AMFI

Computed from 451 published NAVs between 19 Nov 2024 and 16 Sep 2026 — 1.8 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
Franklin India Arbitrage Fund Regular 0.571.492.86 6.27—— ——6.25
Arbitrage category median · 30 funds ——— 6.066.595.97 —5.74—

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 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 25 Sep 2026.

Risk measures

Fund name Volatility Sharpe Sortino Beta Alpha Max fall
Franklin India Arbitrage Fund Regular 1.10 -0.23 -0.43 — — -0.44

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

Risk

VolatilityDownside volatilitySharpeSortino
1.1%0.6%-0.23-0.43

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

The worst it has been

Deepest fallTime to recoverToday, from its peak
-0.4%1 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
6.7%6.3%6.0%0%
Worst6.0%Median6.3%Best6.7%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

6.4%20254.3%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.

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

70.16%Equity
17.11%Debt
11.20%Mutual Fund Units
1.53%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

51.51%Large
16.32%Mid
2.33%Small
Large Cap 51.5%51.5%Mid Cap 16.3%16.3%Small Cap 2.3%Unclassified 28.3%28.3%Large Cap 51.5%Mid Cap 16.3%Small Cap 2.3%Unclassified 28.3%
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 stocks145
Top 5 stocks29.26%
Top 10 stocks42.57%
Top 20 stocks60.59%
Largest single holding11.01%
Largest sectorBanks · 23.10%
Number of sectors46
Effective stocks32.9
Cash & equivalents1.53%

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 — 23.1%Mutual Fund — 11.2%CRISIL A1+ — 7.7%CARE A1+ — 6.4%Telecom - Services — 6.1%Automobiles — 3.8%Petroleum Products — 3.5%Insurance — 3.4%ICRA A1+ — 3.0%Other — 31.9%Banks23.1%Mutual Fund11.2%CRISIL A1+7.7%CARE A1+6.4%Telecom - Services6.1%Automobiles3.8%Petroleum Products3.5%Insurance3.4%ICRA A1+3.0%Other31.9%
Where the equity money sits, by industry.

Largest holdings

Top 10 are 42.6% of the fund. A high number means a concentrated portfolio — fewer names doing more of the work, for better and for worse.

Franklin India Money Market Fund Direct-Growth Plan 11.01%
HDFC Bank Ltd ! 6.27%
ICICI Bank Ltd !! 4.90%
Axis Bank Ltd 3.73%
Reliance Industries Ltd 3.35%
Vodafone Idea Ltd 2.83%
Bharti Airtel Ltd ## !! 2.78%
Canara Bank (30-Nov-2026) 2.58%
Bank of Baroda (04-Dec-2026) 2.58%
Union Bank of India (16-Mar-2027) 2.53%
National Bank For Agriculture & Rural Development (17-Mar-2027) 2.53%
IDFC First Bank Ltd ! 2.24%

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₹329 cr shares added, valued at this filing
Sold₹47.4 cr shares reduced or exited
New positions30 stocks not held a month ago
Sold out of7 stocks fully exited
Price move of what it held +1.14% 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
Eicher Motors Ltd 20,100 entered — 16.0 16.0
ICICI Lombard General Insurance Co Ltd 94,575 entered — 14.8 14.8
Angel One Ltd 472,500 entered — 13.6 13.6
Indian Hotels Co Ltd 75,000 entered — 5.5 5.5
Computer Age Management Services Ltd 57,750 entered — 4.5 4.5
Bajaj Auto Ltd 3,450 entered — 4.2 4.2
UPL Ltd 69,105 entered — 3.9 3.9
KPIT Technologies Ltd 42,625 entered — 2.5 2.5
Added tobought more shares than last month 8
HDFC Bank Ltd ! 663,650 +65.0% -5.2% 47.1 119
Franklin India Money Market Fund Direct-Growth Plan 8,066,413 +27.4% +0.6% 45.1 210
ICICI Bank Ltd !! 275,800 +75.2% +1.3% 40.1 93.4
Axis Bank Ltd 240,000 +78.1% +5.7% 31.2 71.2
Bharti Airtel Ltd ## !! 164,350 +128.2% -8.1% 29.8 53.0
Maruti Suzuki India Ltd 16,850 +315.0% -4.8% 22.8 30.1
APL Apollo Tubes Ltd 55,300 +3,950.0% +22.2% 12.3 12.6
Multi Commodity Exchange Of India Ltd 31,275 +1,158.3% +26.3% 10.6 11.6
Trimmedcut the share count, without selling out 8
Eternal Ltd 802,675 -97.6% +8.5% 26.3 0.6
Reliance Industries Ltd 73,500 -12.8% -2.4% 9.4 63.9
Nestle India Ltd 19,000 -60.3% -0.9% 2.8 1.9
Bajaj Finance Ltd 24,000 -10.4% -7.4% 2.5 21.9
Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd 6,000 -14.2% -3.4% 2.0 11.9
Tata Motors Passenger Vehicles Ltd 41,600 -24.1% -9.1% 1.3 4.1
Mphasis Ltd 3,300 -8.1% +3.6% 0.8 9.1
Jio Financial Services Ltd 30,550 -6.8% -5.9% 0.7 10.2
Sold out ofheld last month, gone this month 7
Laurus Labs Ltd 43,350 exited — 7.9 —
Petronet LNG Ltd 176,700 exited — 5.0 —
360 One Wam Ltd 6,000 exited — 0.7 —
Britannia Industries Ltd 375 exited — 0.2 —
CG Power and Industrial Solutions Ltd 1,700 exited — 0.2 —
Aditya Birla Capital Ltd 3,100 exited — 0.1 —
Delhivery Ltd 2,075 exited — 0.1 —

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 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
Franklin India Arbitrage Fund Franklin Templeton Mutual Fund · this scheme — — — 1.1% -0.23 -0.4%
HSBC Arbitrage Fund HSBC Mutual Fund 6.6% — — 1.0% 0.07 -0.3%
Sundaram Arbitrage Fund(Formerly Known as Prinicpal Arbitrage Fund) Sundaram Mutual Fund 6.5% — — 1.1% -0.04 -0.5%
BARODA BNP PARIBAS ARBITRAGE FUND Baroda BNP Paribas Mutual Fund 6.5% — — 1.0% -0.04 -0.3%
NJ Arbitrage Fund NJ Mutual Fund 6.1% — — 1.2% -0.34 -0.7%

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 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 Franklin India Arbitrage Fund — Regular Plan — IDCW?

₹11.1933 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 Franklin India 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: 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 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?

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.