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ICICI Prudential Balanced Advantage Fund

Option Growth IDCW
All plans and options of ICICI Prudential Balanced Advantage Fund
Scheme (as filed with AMFI)PlanOptionNAVAMFI code
ICICI Prudential Balanced Advantage Fund — Direct Plan — GrowthDirectGrowth ₹90.8200 13 Nov 2026 120377
ICICI Prudential Balanced Advantage Fund — Direct Plan — IDCWDirectIDCW ₹29.1300 13 Nov 2026 120376
ICICI Prudential Balanced Advantage Fund — Direct Plan — Monthly IDCWDirectIDCW ₹27.9300 13 Nov 2026 122236
ICICI Prudential Balanced Advantage Fund — Direct Plan — Quarterly IDCWDirectIDCW ₹18.0800 9 Sep 2022 131451
ICICI Prudential Balanced Advantage Fund — Regular Plan — GrowthRegularGrowth ₹80.8200 13 Nov 2026 104685
ICICI Prudential Balanced Advantage Fund — Regular Plan — IDCWRegularIDCW ₹17.1700 13 Nov 2026 104686
ICICI Prudential Balanced Advantage Fund — Regular Plan — Monthly IDCWRegularIDCW ₹23.0400 13 Nov 2026 122168
ICICI Prudential Balanced Advantage Fund — Regular Plan — Quarterly IDCWRegularIDCW ₹16.3800 9 Sep 2022 131450

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.

This scheme has not published a NAV since 9 Sep 2022 — 4.2 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

Launched25 Sep 2014 12.1 years of history
CategoryBalanced AdvantageSEBI classification
Plan & optionDirect · Quarterly IDCW code 131451
BenchmarkNIFTY 100 TRI used for alpha & beta below
NAV as on9 Sep 2022source AMFI

Computed from 1,957 published NAVs between 25 Sep 2014 and 9 Sep 2022 — 8.0 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
ICICI Prudential Balanced Advantage Fund Direct 1.744.033.14 -1.159.987.15 7.48—7.89
NIFTY 100 TRI benchmark -6.50-6.491.68 -6.827.476.95 11.9911.5813.28
Balanced Advantage category median · 34 funds ——— 3.5710.249.26 —10.95—

Anything over a year is annualised (CAGR); shorter windows are absolute. The benchmark row is the index's own Total Return Index, as published by NSE, measured to 9 Sep 2022. The category row is the median Direct plan in Balanced Advantage — 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 Sep 2022.

Risk measures

Fund name Volatility Sharpe Sortino Beta Alpha Max fall
ICICI Prudential Balanced Advantage Fund Direct 14.23 0.24 0.32 0.61 -3.48 -27.05
NIFTY 100 TRI benchmark 14.83 0.07 0.09 —— -37.92

Risk-free rate 6.5%. The benchmark row is the index's NSE Total Return Index. Beta and alpha need the index as a reference, so the benchmark's own row leaves them blank.

Risk

VolatilityDownside volatilitySharpeSortino
14.2%11.0%0.240.32

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

The worst it has been

Deepest fallTime to recoverToday, from its peak
-27.1%5 months-4.2%
0%-8%-17%-25%2016201820202022
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
55.4%6.9%-19.4%18%
Worst-19.4%Median6.9%Best55.4%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

16.2%2017-2.2%201811.5%201912.3%20209.2%20210.4%2022MF 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 ₹740,975 today, an XIRR of 8.38% 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, as on 31 Oct 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

72.35%Equity
19.38%Debt
4.45%Cash & Equivalents
3.82%REITs / InvITs

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

AMFI has not classified this scheme's holdings into large, mid and small cap in the filing we hold, so there is no split to show. The section is left here rather than hidden so it is clear the data is missing, not that the fund holds nothing.

Concentration

Number of stocks207
Top 5 stocks19.74%
Top 10 stocks30.92%
Top 20 stocks45.50%
Largest single holding6.59%
Largest sectorBanks · 13.37%
Number of sectors50
Effective stocks62.0
Cash & equivalents0.00%

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 — 13.4%SOV — 10.0%Automobiles — 9.9%Retailing — 5.5%It - Software — 4.6%Cash & Equivalents — 4.4%Units of Real Estate Investment Trust (REITs) — 3.5%Petroleum Products — 3.1%Finance — 3.0%Other — 42.7%Banks13.4%SOV10.0%Automobiles9.9%Retailing5.5%It - Software4.6%Cash & Equivalents4.4%Units of Real Estate Inve…3.5%Petroleum Products3.1%Finance3.0%Other42.7%
Where the equity money sits, by industry.

Largest holdings

Top 10 are 32.6% of the fund. A high number means a concentrated portfolio — fewer names doing more of the work, for better and for worse.

TVS Motor Company Ltd. 6.59%
ICICI Bank Ltd. 4.39%
TREPS 3.81%
HDFC Bank Ltd. 3.33%
Government Securities 2.80%
EMBASSY OFFICE PARKS REIT 2.63%
Reliance Industries Ltd. 2.49%
Bharti Airtel Ltd. 2.34%
Infosys Ltd. 2.15%
Axis Bank Ltd. 2.11%
Eternal Ltd. 2.10%
State Bank Of India 1.91%

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 30 Sep 2026 and 31 Oct 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₹2,016 cr shares added, valued at this filing
Sold₹1,929 cr shares reduced or exited
New positions4 stocks not held a month ago
Sold out of3 stocks fully exited
Price move of what it held +0.74% 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 4
One 97 Communications Ltd 2,204,847 entered — 360 360
Jio Platforms Ltd. 915,194 entered — 131 131
Zetwerk Manufacturing Businesses Ltd. 5,192,461 entered — 84.7 84.7
Varun Beverages Ltd. 555,555 entered — 21.8 21.8
Added tobought more shares than last month 8
Samvardhana Motherson International Ltd. 15,877,580 +44.3% -4.1% 248 810
Pidilite Industries Ltd. 1,372,289 +70.7% -0.2% 201 484
Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd. 600,000 +22.9% -3.7% 170 916
JSW Steel Ltd. 1,356,969 +312.2% -0.6% 169 223
Apollo Hospitals Enterprise Ltd. 194,000 +27.8% +3.5% 164 753
Bharti Airtel Ltd. 720,000 +9.2% +12.3% 142 1,681
RR Kabel Ltd. 625,145 +42.8% -18.4% 129 429
Tata Motors Ltd. 3,000,000 +18.0% -6.0% 119 780
Trimmedcut the share count, without selling out 8
Infosys Ltd. 3,364,108 -20.5% +19.2% 399 1,544
Larsen & Toubro Ltd. 593,000 -16.7% +3.0% 230 1,149
Sona Blw Precision Forgings Ltd. 2,539,277 -48.5% +7.3% 226 240
Eternal Ltd. 5,197,500 -10.6% +7.4% 179 1,508
HCL Technologies Ltd. 1,061,563 -16.9% +16.1% 152 748
Lenskart Solutions Ltd. 2,000,000 -81.1% -1.0% 136 31.5
Vedanta Aluminium Metal Ltd. 3,795,973 -67.3% -13.7% 135 65.8
Kotak Mahindra Bank Ltd. 1,600,000 -5.9% +10.7% 73.9 1,174
Sold out ofheld last month, gone this month 3
Samvardhana Motherson International Ltd. 22,308 exited — 250 —
IndusInd Bank Ltd. 2,011,800 exited — 181 —
Grasim Industries Ltd. 10,677 exited — 3.3 —

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 Balanced Advantage 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
ICICI Prudential Balanced Advantage Fund ICICI Prudential Mutual Fund · this scheme 10.0% -3.5% 0.61 14.2% 0.24 -27.1%
Aditya Birla Sun Life Balanced Advantage Fund Aditya Birla Sun Life Mutual Fund 13.2% 3.4% 0.59 9.3% 0.72 -26.4%
Baroda BNP Paribas Balanced Advantage Fund Baroda BNP Paribas Mutual Fund 13.2% 3.1% 0.77 12.3% 0.55 -20.7%
Axis Balanced Advantage Fund Axis Mutual Fund 13.1% 3.3% 0.59 9.2% 0.72 -17.2%
quant Dynamic Asset Allocation Fund quant Mutual Fund 13.0% 4.4% 0.95 16.0% 0.40 -18.4%
WhiteOak Capital Balanced Advantage Fund WhiteOak Capital Mutual Fund 12.7% 3.1% 0.61 9.5% 0.65 -9.6%
Mahindra Manulife Balanced Advantage Fund Mahindra Manulife Mutual Fund 12.1% 2.6% 0.67 10.5% 0.54 -9.8%
DSP Dynamic Asset Allocation Fund DSP Mutual Fund 12.0% 2.4% 0.43 7.4% 0.74 -19.3%
Mirae Asset Balanced Advantage Fund Mirae Asset Mutual Fund 11.5% 2.1% 0.54 8.4% 0.60 -7.5%

Alpha and beta are against NIFTY 100 TRI. 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 ICICI Prudential Balanced Advantage Fund side by side

Returns, risk ratios, portfolio overlap, sectors and market-cap split against each of the other 37 Balanced Advantage funds.

What a Balanced Advantage scheme is

Equity and debt moved dynamically, by a model.

The equity share rises when the market looks cheap and falls when it looks expensive, decided by a formula rather than a mood. Read the fund's model — they differ enormously, and it is the entire product.

Who it suits. Investors who want somebody else to decide when to be cautious.

How long money should stay. 3 to 5 years.

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Questions people ask

What is the NAV of ICICI Prudential Balanced Advantage Fund — Direct Plan — Quarterly IDCW?

₹18.0800 as on 9 Sep 2022, 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 Balanced Advantage 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 Quarterly 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?

Equity and debt moved dynamically, by a model. The equity share rises when the market looks cheap and falls when it looks expensive, decided by a formula rather than a mood. Read the fund's model — they differ enormously, and it is the entire product.

How long should money stay in it?

Typically 3 to 5 years. Investors who want somebody else to decide when to be cautious.