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ICICI Prudential Arbitrage Fund

Option Growth IDCW
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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

Launched1 Jan 2007 19.7 years of history
CategoryArbitrageSEBI classification
Plan & optionRegular · IDCW code 104681
Benchmark— no equity benchmark for this category
NAV as on24 Sep 2026source AMFI

Computed from 4,849 published NAVs between 1 Jan 2007 and 16 Sep 2026 — 19.7 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
ICICI Prudential Arbitrage Fund Regular 0.180.480.80 1.972.541.83 1.811.152.23
Arbitrage category median · 30 funds ——— 5.956.575.95 —5.73—

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 24 Sep 2026.

Risk measures

Fund name Volatility Sharpe Sortino Beta Alpha Max fall
ICICI Prudential Arbitrage Fund Regular 2.94 -1.34 -1.50 — — -9.95

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

Risk

VolatilityDownside volatilitySharpeSortino
2.9%2.6%-1.34-1.50

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

The worst it has been

Deepest fallTime to recoverToday, from its peak
-9.9%21 monthsAt a high
0%-4%-7%-11%2008201020122014201620182020202220242026
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
11.0%1.3%-9.2%27%
Worst-9.2%Median1.3%Best11.0%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

2.0%2021-0.2%20222.7%20233.3%20242.3%20251.2%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 ₹635,750 today, an XIRR of 2.28% 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

72.86%Equity
15.21%Mutual Fund Units
10.17%Debt
1.74%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

57.03%Large
13.62%Mid
2.21%Small
Large Cap 57.0%57.0%Mid Cap 13.6%13.6%Small Cap 2.2%Unclassified 25.4%25.4%Large Cap 57.0%Mid Cap 13.6%Small Cap 2.2%Unclassified 25.4%
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 stocks203
Top 5 stocks30.19%
Top 10 stocks40.70%
Top 20 stocks52.90%
Largest single holding15.21%
Largest sectorCapital Markets · 16.52%
Number of sectors47
Effective stocks28.7
Cash & equivalents1.74%

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

Capital Markets — 16.5%Banks — 14.9%Telecom - Services — 7.9%CRISIL A1+ — 7.2%Power — 4.8%Finance — 4.7%Petroleum Products — 4.6%Ferrous Metals — 3.8%Pharmaceuticals & Biotechnology — 3.5%Other — 32.0%Capital Markets16.5%Banks14.9%Telecom - Services7.9%CRISIL A1+7.2%Power4.8%Finance4.7%Petroleum Products4.6%Ferrous Metals3.8%Pharmaceuticals & Biotech…3.5%Other32.0%
Where the equity money sits, by industry.

Largest holdings

Top 10 are 41.2% of the fund. A high number means a concentrated portfolio — fewer names doing more of the work, for better and for worse.

ICICI Prudential Money Market Fund - Direct Plan - Growth 15.21%
Reliance Industries Ltd. 4.02%
Bharti Airtel Ltd. 3.89%
Axis Bank Ltd. 3.58%
Vodafone Idea Ltd. 3.49%
HDFC Bank Ltd. 3.27%
TREPS 2.15%
State Bank Of India 1.96%
Bharat Electronics Ltd. 1.88%
Union Bank Of India 1.81%
Coal India Ltd. 1.60%
Tata Steel Ltd. 1.55%

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₹4,242 cr shares added, valued at this filing
Sold₹3,527 cr shares reduced or exited
New positions14 stocks not held a month ago
Sold out of6 stocks fully exited
Price move of what it held -0.32% 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
Life Insurance Corporation of India 4,624,200 entered — 193 193
Tech Mahindra Ltd. 516,600 entered — 84.1 84.1
Trent Ltd. 137,025 entered — 39.5 39.5
HCL Technologies Ltd. 280,400 entered — 36.8 36.8
Avenue Supermarts Ltd. 80,400 entered — 31.4 31.4
Sagility India Ltd 1,764,000 entered — 8.3 8.3
Ather Energy LTD. 43,500 entered — 7.5 7.5
Oberoi Realty Ltd. 38,850 entered — 7.3 7.3
Added tobought more shares than last month 8
HDFC Bank Ltd. 5,296,850 +49.3% -5.2% 376 1,138
Tata Steel Ltd. 15,072,750 +105.9% -2.8% 278 540
Cummins India Ltd. 409,600 +354.3% -7.5% 209 268
Reliance Industries Ltd. 1,531,500 +16.2% -2.4% 196 1,401
Bajaj Finance Ltd. 1,837,500 +98.6% -7.4% 194 391
Coal India Ltd. 3,993,300 +40.3% -3.0% 160 558
Infosys Ltd. 1,398,000 +233.0% +0.3% 159 227
HDFC Asset Management Company Ltd. 554,100 +302.3% +0.2% 145 193
Trimmedcut the share count, without selling out 8
Kotak Mahindra Bank Ltd. 9,570,000 -64.0% +7.5% 401 226
Hindalco Industries Ltd. 2,310,000 -68.2% +4.2% 235 109
DLF Ltd. 2,971,600 -62.2% +4.8% 205 125
Divi's Laboratories Ltd. 191,100 -71.8% +17.5% 181 71.1
Laurus Labs Ltd. 923,100 -80.7% +5.4% 177 42.3
Grasim Industries Ltd. 497,000 -72.0% +8.7% 168 65.3
Eicher Motors Ltd. 187,400 -61.8% +1.5% 149 92.3
Jio Financial Services Ltd 5,670,550 -25.2% -5.9% 137 407
Sold out ofheld last month, gone this month 6
Dalmia Bharat Ltd. 173,875 exited — 31.3 —
Kaynes Technology India Ltd. 25,650 exited — 9.8 —
Oracle Financial Services Software Ltd. 6,700 exited — 7.5 —
Jubilant Foodworks Ltd. 80,000 exited — 3.5 —
Dr. Reddy's Laboratories Ltd. 23,750 exited — 2.7 —
NHPC Ltd. 111,200 exited — 0.9 —

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
ICICI Prudential Arbitrage Fund ICICI Prudential Mutual Fund · this scheme 2.5% — — 2.9% -1.34 -9.9%
Kotak Arbitrage Fund Kotak Mahindra Mutual Fund 6.8% — — 1.3% 0.27 -0.6%
UTI - Arbitrage Fund UTI Mutual Fund 6.8% — — 1.1% 0.29 -0.7%
Invesco India Arbitrage Fund Invesco Mutual Fund 6.8% — — 1.3% 0.22 -0.5%
HDFC Arbitrage Fund HDFC Mutual Fund 6.7% — — 1.3% 0.18 -0.8%
ICICI Prudential Arbitrage Fund ICICI Prudential Mutual Fund 6.7% — — 1.5% 0.16 -1.2%
SBI Arbitrage Fund SBI Mutual Fund 6.7% — — 1.3% 0.18 -0.7%
Edelweiss Arbitrage Fund Edelweiss Mutual Fund 6.7% — — 1.0% 0.20 -0.5%
ADITYA BIRLA SUN LIFE ARBITRAGE FUND Aditya Birla Sun Life Mutual Fund 6.7% — — 1.2% 0.14 -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.

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 ICICI Prudential Arbitrage Fund — Regular Plan — IDCW?

₹15.4588 as on 24 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 ICICI Prudential 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.