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HSBC Arbitrage Fund

Option Growth IDCW
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All plans and options of HSBC Arbitrage Fund
Scheme (as filed with AMFI)PlanOptionNAVAMFI code
HSBC Arbitrage Fund — Direct Plan — GrowthDirectGrowth ₹22.1317 9 Nov 2026 151138
HSBC Arbitrage Fund — Direct Plan — Monthly IDCWDirectIDCW ₹10.2385 9 Nov 2026 151135
HSBC Arbitrage Fund — Direct Plan — Quarterly IDCWDirectIDCW ₹10.7477 9 Nov 2026 151136
HSBC Arbitrage Fund — Regular Plan — GrowthRegularGrowth ₹20.5135 9 Nov 2026 151134
HSBC Arbitrage Fund — Regular Plan — Monthly IDCWRegularIDCW ₹10.2247 9 Nov 2026 151140
HSBC Arbitrage Fund — Regular Plan — Quarterly IDCWRegularIDCW ₹10.6254 9 Nov 2026 151137

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

Launched28 Nov 2022 4.0 years of history
CategoryArbitrageSEBI classification
Plan & optionRegular · Growth code 151134
Benchmark— no equity benchmark for this category
NAV as on9 Nov 2026source AMFI

Computed from 974 published NAVs between 28 Nov 2022 and 9 Nov 2026 — 3.9 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
HSBC Arbitrage Fund Regular 0.551.392.91 6.076.53— ——6.71
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
HSBC Arbitrage Fund Regular 0.56 0.05 0.07 — — -0.33

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%0.050.07

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

The worst it has been

Deepest fallTime to recoverToday, from its peak
-0.3%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
7.9%6.8%5.5%0%
Worst5.5%Median6.8%Best7.9%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

7.1%20237.3%20246.2%20255.1%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, 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

69.02%Equity
16.10%Mutual Fund Units
12.71%Debt
2.17%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

43.92%Large
16.12%Mid
8.98%Small
Large Cap 43.9%43.9%Mid Cap 16.1%16.1%Small Cap 9.0%9.0%Unclassified 28.8%28.8%Large Cap 43.9%Mid Cap 16.1%Small Cap 9.0%Unclassified 28.8%
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 stocks157
Top 5 stocks32.52%
Top 10 stocks44.48%
Top 20 stocks60.10%
Largest single holding14.34%
Largest sectorBanks · 24.96%
Number of sectors46
Effective stocks26.8
Cash & equivalents2.17%

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 — 25.0%Internal - Mutual Fund Units — 16.1%CRISIL A1+ — 8.0%Ferrous Metals — 5.5%Petroleum Products — 5.0%Finance — 4.8%Power — 4.0%Pharmaceuticals & Biotechnology — 3.4%Other — 28.2%Banks25.0%Internal - Mutual Fund Un…16.1%CRISIL A1+8.0%Ferrous Metals5.5%Petroleum Products5.0%Finance4.8%Power4.0%Pharmaceuticals & Biotech…3.4%Other28.2%
Where the equity money sits, by industry.

Largest holdings

Top 10 are 44.5% of the fund. A high number means a concentrated portfolio — fewer names doing more of the work, for better and for worse.

HSBC Money Market Fund - Direct Growth 14.34%
ICICI Bank Limited 5.32%
Reliance Industries Limited 4.84%
HDFC Bank Limited 4.78%
Steel Authority of India Limited 3.24%
Canara Bank 3.04%
Adani Power Limited 2.55%
Bandhan Bank Limited 2.36%
Treps 2.05%
HDFC Bank Limited 2.01%
NABARD 2.00%
Crompton Greaves Consumer Electrical Ltd 2.00%

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₹434 cr shares added, valued at this filing
Sold₹178 cr shares reduced or exited
New positions27 stocks not held a month ago
Sold out of8 stocks fully exited
Price move of what it held -4.09% 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
Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Limited 145,950 entered — 26.5 26.5
Laurus Labs Limited 70,550 entered — 14.0 14.0
IndusInd Bank Limited 122,500 entered — 11.0 11.0
Colgate Palmolive (India) Limited 26,950 entered — 4.8 4.8
PB Fintech Limited 43,050 entered — 4.6 4.6
InterGlobe Aviation Limited 2,400 entered — 1.2 1.2
Avenue Supermarts Limited 2,700 entered — 1.0 1.0
Cholamandalam Invest & Finance Co Ltd 5,625 entered — 0.9 0.9
Added tobought more shares than last month 8
Reliance Industries Limited 1,141,500 +336.2% -7.1% 136 176
ICICI Bank Limited 580,300 +65.7% -9.1% 76.7 193
Divi''s Laboratories Limited 31,800 +4,542.9% -1.9% 29.6 30.2
Crompton Greaves Consumer Electrical Ltd 1,186,800 +51.7% -11.5% 24.8 72.6
Bajaj Finance Limited 239,250 +180.2% -9.2% 23.0 35.7
The Federal Bank Limited 425,000 +130.8% -11.0% 13.5 23.8
IDFC First Bank Limited 1,391,250 +27.0% -5.3% 11.3 53.3
HDFC Bank Limited 154,700 +6.7% 0.0% 11.0 174
Trimmedcut the share count, without selling out 8
Bandhan Bank Limited 777,600 -13.9% +9.0% 13.9 85.7
Jio Financial Services Limited 568,700 -26.5% -10.1% 12.3 34.2
Bharti Airtel Limited 65,075 -50.9% -3.0% 11.4 11.0
Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited 279,450 -88.5% -4.2% 9.8 1.3
KALYAN JEWELLERS INDIA LIMITED 174,150 -25.3% -8.0% 9.6 28.5
Indus Towers Limited 219,300 -26.1% -4.0% 8.2 23.2
Voltas Limited 70,875 -81.1% -10.4% 7.6 1.8
HDFC Life Insurance Company Limited 130,900 -13.0% -4.1% 6.8 45.6
Sold out ofheld last month, gone this month 8
DLF Limited 52,250 exited — 3.6 —
Godrej Consumer Products Limited 38,500 exited — 3.5 —
Tata Consultancy Services Limited 3,150 exited — 0.8 —
Asian Paints Limited 1,750 exited — 0.5 —
Mankind Pharma Limited 1,250 exited — 0.3 —
Max Healthcare Institute Limited 2,100 exited — 0.2 —
Petronet LNG Limited 5,700 exited — 0.2 —
Eicher Motors Limited 100 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.

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
HSBC Arbitrage Fund HSBC Mutual Fund · this scheme 6.5% — — 0.6% 0.05 -0.3%
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 HSBC 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 HSBC Arbitrage Fund — Regular Plan — Growth?

₹20.5135 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 HSBC 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.