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Nippon India Balanced Advantage Fund

All plans and options of Nippon India Balanced Advantage Fund
Scheme (as filed with AMFI)PlanOptionNAVAMFI code
Nippon India Balanced Advantage Fund — Direct Plan — Bonus OptionDirectBonus Option ₹9.6826 24 Dec 2015 118737
Nippon India Balanced Advantage Fund — Direct Plan — Growth OptionDirectGrowth Option ₹215.1993 13 Nov 2026 118736
Nippon India Balanced Advantage Fund — Direct Plan — IDCW OptionDirectIDCW ₹46.2129 13 Nov 2026 118738
Nippon India Balanced Advantage Fund — Regular Plan — Bonus OptionRegularBonus Option ₹187.1222 13 Nov 2026 102847
Nippon India Balanced Advantage Fund — Regular Plan — Growth OptionRegularGrowth Option ₹187.1222 13 Nov 2026 102846
Nippon India Balanced Advantage Fund — Regular Plan — IDCW OptionRegularIDCW ₹31.4257 13 Nov 2026 102848

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

Launched18 Jul 2006 20.3 years of history
CategoryBalanced AdvantageSEBI classification
Plan & optionRegular · IDCW Option code 102848
BenchmarkNIFTY 100 TRI used for alpha & beta below
NAV as on13 Nov 2026source AMFI

Computed from 5,001 published NAVs between 18 Jul 2006 and 13 Nov 2026 — 20.3 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
Nippon India Balanced Advantage Fund Regular 4.56-1.351.44 -5.761.990.87 2.802.542.80
NIFTY 100 TRI benchmark -6.50-6.491.68 -6.827.476.95 11.9911.5813.28
Balanced Advantage category median · 34 funds ——— 2.478.997.99 —10.31—

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 13 Nov 2026. The category row is the median Regular 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 13 Nov 2026.

Risk measures

Fund name Volatility Sharpe Sortino Beta Alpha Max fall
Nippon India Balanced Advantage Fund Regular 9.04 -0.50 -0.61 0.58 -6.88 -65.43
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
9.0%7.4%-0.50-0.61

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

The worst it has been

Deepest fallTime to recoverToday, from its peak
-65.4%177 months-10.8%
0%-24%-49%-73%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
91.3%1.9%-61.9%43%
Worst-61.9%Median1.9%Best91.3%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

8.7%2021-1.6%20229.5%20235.4%2024-0.8%2025-4.5%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 ₹612,775 today, an XIRR of 0.83% 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

73.05%Equity
18.86%Debt
4.72%REITs / InvITs
3.37%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

54.34%Large
11.63%Mid
9.37%Small
Large Cap 54.3%54.3%Mid Cap 11.6%11.6%Small Cap 9.4%9.4%Unclassified 21.3%21.3%Large Cap 54.3%Mid Cap 11.6%Small Cap 9.4%Unclassified 21.3%
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 stocks141
Top 5 stocks20.15%
Top 10 stocks31.70%
Top 20 stocks45.82%
Largest single holding6.24%
Largest sectorBanks · 20.40%
Number of sectors47
Effective stocks57.7
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 — 20.4%CRISIL AAA — 7.0%Retailing — 5.1%IT - Software — 4.5%Finance — 4.0%Automobiles — 3.8%Pharmaceuticals & Biotechnology — 3.7%Power — 3.6%Cash & Equivalents — 3.4%Other — 44.7%Banks20.4%CRISIL AAA7.0%Retailing5.1%IT - Software4.5%Finance4.0%Automobiles3.8%Pharmaceuticals & Biotech…3.7%Power3.6%Cash & Equivalents3.4%Other44.7%
Where the equity money sits, by industry.

Largest holdings

Top 10 are 31.7% of the fund. A high number means a concentrated portfolio — fewer names doing more of the work, for better and for worse.

HDFC Bank Limited 6.24%
ICICI Bank Limited 5.93%
Infosys Limited 2.76%
Bharti Airtel Limited 2.63%
Axis Bank Limited 2.59%
State Bank of India 2.55%
Kotak Mahindra Bank Limited 2.54%
Reliance Industries Limited 2.47%
Eternal Limited 2.02%
Mahindra & Mahindra Limited 1.97%
Larsen & Toubro Limited 1.89%
Cash Margin - Derivatives 1.85%

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₹175 cr shares added, valued at this filing
Sold₹99.5 cr shares reduced or exited
New positions1 stocks not held a month ago
Sold out of4 stocks fully exited
Price move of what it held +0.24% 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 1
Max Financial Services Limited 492,560 entered — 59.1 59.1
Added tobought more shares than last month 8
Avenue Supermarts Limited 100,000 +71.9% -15.9% 32.0 76.5
PNB Housing Finance Limited 270,000 +59.8% -5.4% 28.6 76.5
ITC Limited 900,000 +25.2% +1.1% 23.9 119
TVS Motor Company Limited 43,000 +20.5% +2.2% 18.0 106
Dr. Reddy's Laboratories Limited 100,000 +37.4% +9.7% 13.5 49.6
Star Health And Allied Insurance Company Limited 200,000 +13.2% -0.8% 10.6 91.3
Swiggy Limited 500,000 +20.9% -29.4% 8.8 51.2
PNC Infratech Limited 700,000 +74.4% -7.0% 8.7 20.3
Trimmedcut the share count, without selling out 7
ABB India Limited 51,321 -84.5% -5.4% 32.9 6.1
Nexus Select Trust - REIT 1,625,822 -51.6% -4.6% 26.0 24.3
Mindspace Business Parks REIT 282,520 -12.9% -3.5% 13.7 92.5
IPCA Laboratories Limited 50,000 -11.9% +0.0% 9.6 71.5
United Breweries Limited 73,937 -16.3% +1.9% 8.7 44.9
Tata Steel Limited 500,000 -41.7% -9.1% 8.4 11.7
Kaynes Technology India Limited 750 -0.9% -10.6% 0.2 25.1
Sold out ofheld last month, gone this month 4
Prestige Estates Projects Limited 250,521 exited — 37.1 —
Coforge Limited 198,952 exited — 34.8 —
LIC Housing Finance Limited 411,508 exited — 21.8 —
L&T Finance Limited 402,582 exited — 10.7 —

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 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
Nippon India Balanced Advantage Fund Nippon India Mutual Fund · this scheme 2.0% -6.9% 0.58 9.0% -0.50 -65.4%
Axis Balanced Advantage Fund Axis Mutual Fund 3.5% -5.5% 0.63 12.2% -0.25 -18.7%
Baroda BNP Paribas Balanced Advantage Fund Baroda BNP Paribas Mutual Fund 1.9% -6.9% 0.70 13.2% -0.35 -20.8%
Canara Robeco Balanced Advantage Fund Canara Robeco Mutual Fund — -1.9% 0.67 11.2% -0.40 -11.6%
HDFC Balanced Advantage Fund HDFC Mutual Fund 2.6% -6.3% 0.68 10.9% -0.36 -66.2%
ITI Balanced Advantage Fund ITI Mutual Fund 1.5% -7.7% 0.50 9.0% -0.55 -33.9%
Samco Dynamic Asset Allocation Fund Samco Mutual Fund — -5.5% 0.51 10.3% -0.48 -17.2%
Union Balanced Advantage Fund Union Mutual Fund 4.3% -5.0% 0.59 9.6% -0.22 -23.8%

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 Nippon India 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 Nippon India Balanced Advantage Fund — Regular Plan — IDCW Option?

₹31.4257 as on 13 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 Nippon India 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 IDCW Option 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.