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Tata Arbitrage Fund

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Fund basics

Launched19 Dec 2018 7.8 years of history
CategoryArbitrageSEBI classification
Plan & optionDirect · Growth Option code 145724
Benchmark— no equity benchmark for this category
NAV as on25 Sep 2026source AMFI

Computed from 1,908 published NAVs between 19 Dec 2018 and 16 Sep 2026 — 7.7 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
Tata Arbitrage Fund Direct 0.561.613.14 6.797.516.81 6.45—6.55
Arbitrage category median · 28 funds ——— 6.677.316.68 —6.38—

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 Direct 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 25 Sep 2026.

Risk measures

Fund name Volatility Sharpe Sortino Beta Alpha Max fall
Tata Arbitrage Fund Direct 1.03 0.98 1.87 — — -0.57

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

Risk

VolatilityDownside volatilitySharpeSortino
1.0%0.5%0.981.87

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

The worst it has been

Deepest fallTime to recoverToday, from its peak
-0.6%2 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
8.6%6.8%3.9%0%
Worst3.9%Median6.8%Best8.6%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

4.5%20214.9%20227.9%20238.4%20247.3%20254.7%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 ₹720,471 today, an XIRR of 7.25% 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

20.26%Debt
12.73%Mutual Fund Units
1.03%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

—Large
—Mid
—Small
Unclassified 33.0%33.0%Unclassified 33.0%
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 stocks419
Top 5 stocks26.31%
Top 10 stocks33.81%
Top 20 stocks46.07%
Largest single holding11.79%
Largest sectorCRISIL-A1+ · 15.16%
Number of sectors47
Effective stocks27.1
Cash & equivalents1.03%

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

CRISIL-A1+ — 15.2%CAPITAL MARKETS — 12.7%IND-A1+ — 2.3%CRISIL-AAA — 2.2%Cash & Equivalents — 1.0%Other — 0.7%CRISIL-A1+15.2%CAPITAL MARKETS12.7%IND-A1+2.3%CRISIL-AAA2.2%Cash & Equivalents1.0%Other0.7%
Where the equity money sits, by industry.

Largest holdings

Top 10 are 33.8% of the fund. A high number means a concentrated portfolio — fewer names doing more of the work, for better and for worse.

TATA MONEY MARKET FUND 11.79%
HDFC BANK LTD 7.80%
AXIS BANK LTD 2.84%
** - SMALL INDUST DEVLOP BANK OF INDIA - CD - 23/10/2026 1.99%
RELIANCE INDUSTRIES LTD 1.89%
BHARTI AIRTEL LTD 1.67%
VODAFONE IDEA LTD 1.60%
** - NABARD - CD - 28/01/2027 1.46%
STEEL AUTHORITY INDIA LTD 1.42%
JIO FINANCIAL SERVICES LTD 1.35%
** - SMALL INDUST DEVLOP BANK OF INDIA - CD - 25/03/2027 1.35%
** - NATIONAL BANK FOR FINANCING INFRASTRUCTURE AND DEVELOPMENT - CD - 12/03/2027 1.35%

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₹0.0 cr shares added, valued at this filing
Sold₹0.0 cr shares reduced or exited
New positions16 stocks not held a month ago
Sold out of11 stocks fully exited
Price move of what it held +0.62% 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
ASTRAL LTD (ERSTWHILE ASTRAL POLY TECHNIK LTD) -425 entered — -0.1 -0.1
VOLTAS LTD -750 entered — -0.1 -0.1
TITAN COMPANY LTD -175 entered — -0.1 -0.1
COLGATE-PALMOLIVE INDIA LTD -3,300 entered — -0.6 -0.6
SUN PHARMACEUTICAL INDUSTRIES LTD -9,100 entered — -1.8 -1.8
SBI CARDS AND PAYMENT SERVICES LTD -36,000 entered — -2.4 -2.4
HCL TECHNOLOGIES LTD -24,400 entered — -3.2 -3.2
BAJAJ HOLDINGS & INVESTMENT LTD -3,750 entered — -4.3 -4.3
Sold out ofheld last month, gone this month 8
FSN E COMMERCE VENTURES LTD -15,625 exited — -0.5 —
HAVELLS INDIA LTD -46,000 exited — -5.8 —
BAJAJ AUTO LTD -7,650 exited — -8.8 —
ETERNAL LTD -603,825 exited — -18.4 —
CG POWER AND INDUSTRIAL SOLUTIONS LTD -324,700 exited — -28.2 —
DALMIA BHARAT LTD -164,450 exited — -29.8 —
REC LTD -1,074,150 exited — -40.0 —
INDIAN BANK -623,000 exited — -52.3 —

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.

How it compares in its category

Against the Arbitrage 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
Tata Arbitrage Fund Tata Mutual Fund · this scheme 7.5% — — 1.0% 0.98 -0.6%
Invesco India Arbitrage Fund Invesco Mutual Fund 7.5% — — 1.0% 0.97 -0.5%
Kotak Arbitrage Fund Kotak Mahindra Mutual Fund 7.5% — — 1.0% 0.98 -0.6%
ADITYA BIRLA SUN LIFE ARBITRAGE FUND Aditya Birla Sun Life Mutual Fund 7.4% — — 1.1% 0.86 -0.5%
Edelweiss Arbitrage Fund Edelweiss Mutual Fund 7.4% — — 1.0% 0.94 -0.5%
Mirae Asset Arbitrage Fund Mirae Asset Mutual Fund 7.4% — — 1.0% 0.91 -0.4%
Axis Arbitrage Fund Axis Mutual Fund 7.4% — — 1.0% 0.87 -0.6%
UTI - Arbitrage Fund UTI Mutual Fund 7.4% — — 1.0% 0.88 -0.7%
ICICI Prudential Arbitrage Fund ICICI Prudential Mutual Fund 7.4% — — 1.0% 0.84 -0.6%

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 Tata Arbitrage Fund — Direct Plan — Growth Option?

₹16.3709 as on 25 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 Tata 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 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.