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ICICI Prudential Equity Savings Fund

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 16 Sep 2022 — 4.0 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

Launched8 Dec 2014 11.8 years of history
CategoryEquity SavingsSEBI classification
Plan & optionRegular · Half Yearly IDCW code 133057
BenchmarkNifty 100 used for alpha & beta below
NAV as on16 Sep 2022source AMFI

Computed from 1,915 published NAVs between 8 Dec 2014 and 16 Sep 2022 — 7.8 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
ICICI Prudential Equity Savings Fund Regular -0.140.770.77 1.924.263.64 5.38—4.78
Nifty 100 benchmark 0.253.49-1.52 1.8410.529.38 ——12.79
Equity Savings category median · 25 funds ——— 3.087.566.73 —8.06—

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 Equity Savings — the middle fund, not a ranking, and a median rather than an average so that one mis-stated scheme cannot move it. As on 16 Sep 2022.

Risk measures

Fund name Volatility Sharpe Sortino Beta Alpha Max fall
ICICI Prudential Equity Savings Fund Regular 6.53 -0.34 -0.44 0.38 -6.19 -19.25
Nifty 100 benchmark 17.12 0.23 0.32 —— -37.03

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

Risk

VolatilityDownside volatilitySharpeSortino
6.5%5.1%-0.34-0.44

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

The worst it has been

Deepest fallTime to recoverToday, from its peak
-19.2%9 months-0.6%
0%-6%-12%-17%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
24.3%4.7%-13.0%13%
Worst-13.0%Median4.7%Best24.3%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

8.6%20171.4%20186.4%20191.2%20206.1%20212.5%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 ₹667,159 today, an XIRR of 4.19% 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

73.69%Equity
11.48%Debt
8.63%Mutual Fund Units
5.60%Cash & Equivalents
0.61%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 stocks128
Top 5 stocks31.39%
Top 10 stocks44.95%
Top 20 stocks62.52%
Largest single holding8.63%
Largest sectorBanks · 17.70%
Number of sectors42
Effective stocks33.4
Cash & equivalents5.60%

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 — 17.7%Pharmaceuticals & Biotechnology — 8.8%Mutual Fund — 8.6%Cash & Equivalents — 5.7%Petroleum Products — 5.3%SOV — 5.2%Finance — 5.1%Automobiles — 5.0%Diversified Fmcg — 4.6%Other — 34.2%Banks17.7%Pharmaceuticals & Biotech…8.8%Mutual Fund8.6%Cash & Equivalents5.7%Petroleum Products5.3%SOV5.2%Finance5.1%Automobiles5.0%Diversified Fmcg4.6%Other34.2%
Where the equity money sits, by industry.

Largest holdings

Top 10 are 47.5% 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 8.63%
HDFC Bank Ltd. 8.15%
Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. 5.65%
Reliance Industries Ltd. 5.02%
TREPS 4.70%
Kotak Mahindra Bank Ltd. 3.95%
Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd. 3.55%
Bajaj Finance Ltd. 2.75%
ITC Ltd. 2.53%
Adani Ports and Special Economic Zone Ltd. 2.52%
NTPC Ltd. 2.20%
Hindustan Unilever Ltd. 2.11%

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₹208 cr shares added, valued at this filing
Sold₹776 cr shares reduced or exited
New positions9 stocks not held a month ago
Sold out of4 stocks fully exited
Price move of what it held -1.71% 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
Thyrocare Technologies Ltd. 818,636 entered — 49.5 49.5
Piramal Finance Ltd 214,399 entered — 49.3 49.3
Avenue Supermarts Ltd. 79,718 entered — 31.1 31.1
Amagi Media Labs Ltd 309,689 entered — 17.6 17.6
Manappuram Finance Ltd. 249,000 entered — 8.5 8.5
Adani Power Ltd. 291,100 entered — 5.8 5.8
Symbiotec Pharmalab Ltd. 55,169 entered — 5.5 5.5
Crompton Greaves Consumer Electricals Ltd. 176,300 entered — 4.2 4.2
Added tobought more shares than last month 7
Ultratech Cement Ltd. 94,957 +207.1% -3.8% 109 161
Coal India Ltd. 1,535,142 +394.0% -3.0% 61.7 77.3
NTPC Ltd. 437,159 +4.3% -5.7% 14.3 347
Bandhan Bank Ltd. 684,000 +137.7% -6.1% 11.2 19.3
Bharat Heavy Electricals Ltd. 204,750 +30.6% +8.8% 9.1 38.7
Samvardhana Motherson International Ltd. 98,400 +15.8% +13.2% 1.7 12.3
Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Ltd. 32,400 +27.1% -6.2% 1.2 5.6
Trimmedcut the share count, without selling out 8
Eternal Ltd. 8,887,625 -85.1% +8.5% 292 51.0
Reliance Industries Ltd. 700,000 -10.1% -2.4% 89.4 792
Bajaj Finserv Ltd. 389,700 -25.2% -0.4% 78.8 234
Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd. 146,200 -7.9% -3.4% 48.0 561
Axis Bank Ltd. 340,625 -13.8% +5.7% 44.3 276
Titan Company Ltd. 72,100 -44.4% +4.7% 36.8 46.0
Maruti Suzuki India Ltd. 25,000 -20.3% -4.8% 33.9 133
Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. 149,450 -3.2% -0.3% 29.7 892
Sold out ofheld last month, gone this month 4
General Insurance Corporation of India 663,938 exited — 23.7 —
Info Edge (India) Ltd. 25,850 exited — 3.2 —
Petronet LNG Ltd. 41,800 exited — 1.2 —
Container Corporation Of India Ltd. 3,750 exited — 0.2 —

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 Equity Savings 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 Equity Savings Fund ICICI Prudential Mutual Fund · this scheme 4.3% -6.2% 0.38 6.5% -0.34 -19.2%
Nippon India Equity Savings Fund (Existing number of Segregated Portfolios - 2) Nippon India Mutual Fund 31.2% 6.5% 0.41 53.8% 0.46 0.0%
HSBC Equity Savings Fund HSBC Mutual Fund 11.7% 5.4% 0.37 6.5% 0.79 -11.7%
Edelweiss Equity Savings Fund Edelweiss Mutual Fund 10.7% 1.7% 0.28 4.7% 0.90 -9.6%
Tata Equity Savings Fund Tata Mutual Fund 9.8% -0.3% 0.31 4.4% 0.75 -14.0%
Kotak Equity Savings Fund Kotak Mahindra Mutual Fund 8.7% 0.9% 0.37 5.6% 0.40 -16.5%
Mirae Asset Equity Savings Fund Mirae Asset Mutual Fund 8.4% 1.3% 0.44 7.2% 0.26 -18.2%
Axis Equity Savings Fund Axis Mutual Fund 7.7% -0.6% 0.42 6.8% 0.18 -17.6%
Baroda BNP Paribas Equity Savings Fund Baroda BNP Paribas Mutual Fund 7.8% -0.1% 0.28 5.4% 0.24 -8.5%

Alpha and beta are against Nifty 100. 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 Equity Savings scheme is

Equity, arbitrage and debt together.

Taxed as an equity fund while behaving much more like a debt one, because a large part of the equity is hedged. The tax treatment is the point.

Who it suits. Money with a two- to three-year horizon that would otherwise sit in a debt fund.

How long money should stay. 2 to 3 years.

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Questions people ask

What is the NAV of ICICI Prudential Equity Savings Fund — Regular Plan — Half Yearly IDCW?

₹14.3500 as on 16 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 Equity Savings 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 Half Yearly 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, arbitrage and debt together. Taxed as an equity fund while behaving much more like a debt one, because a large part of the equity is hedged. The tax treatment is the point.

How long should money stay in it?

Typically 2 to 3 years. Money with a two- to three-year horizon that would otherwise sit in a debt fund.