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Zerodha CASE Arbitrage Fund

Fund basics

Launched20 Aug 2026 0.2 years of history
CategoryArbitrageSEBI classification
Plan & optionDirect · Growth Option code 154619
Benchmark— no equity benchmark for this category
NAV as on5 Nov 2026source AMFI

Computed from 53 published NAVs between 20 Aug 2026 and 5 Nov 2026 — 0.2 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
Zerodha CASE Arbitrage Fund Direct 0.41—— ——— ———
Arbitrage category median · 28 funds ——— 6.527.226.72 —6.36—

Anything over a year is annualised (CAGR); shorter windows are absolute. The benchmark row is a low-cost index fund that tracks the index, which runs a little below it after the fund's own costs, measured to 5 Nov 2026. 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 5 Nov 2026.

Risk measures

Fund name Volatility Sharpe Sortino Beta Alpha Max fall
Zerodha CASE Arbitrage Fund Direct — — — — — -0.34

Risk-free rate 6.5%. The benchmark row is a low-cost index fund tracking the index. Beta and alpha need the index as a reference, so the benchmark's own row leaves them blank.

The worst it has been

Deepest fallTime to recoverToday, from its peak
-0.3%0 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
———0%

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.

What it actually holds

The real portfolio the AMC filed with AMFI, as on 30 Sep 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

0.68%Equity
0.13%Mutual Fund Units
0.10%Debt

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

0.47%Large
0.16%Mid
0.05%Small
Large Cap 0.5%0.5%Mid Cap 0.2%0.2%Small Cap 0.1%0.1%Unclassified 0.2%0.2%Large Cap 0.5%Mid Cap 0.2%Small Cap 0.1%Unclassified 0.2%
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 stocks51
Top 5 stocks0.40%
Top 10 stocks0.52%
Top 20 stocks0.73%
Largest single holding0.13%
Largest sectorBanks · 0.28%
Number of sectors24
Effective stocks214,969.1
Cash & equivalents-0.60%

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

Unclassified — 0.1%Sovereign — 0.1%Cash & Equivalents — 0.1%Unclassified0.1%Sovereign0.1%Cash & Equivalents0.1%
Where the equity money sits, by industry.

Largest holdings

Top 10 are 0.7% of the fund. A high number means a concentrated portfolio — fewer names doing more of the work, for better and for worse.

Clearing Corporation of India Limited 0.15%
HSBC Liquid Fund - Direct Growth 0.13%
364 Days Treasury Bill 12-Aug-2027 0.10%
HDFC Bank Limited 0.08%
ICICI Bank Limited 0.04%
The Federal Bank Limited 0.04%
Crompton Greaves Consumer Electricals Limited 0.03%
IDFC First Bank Limited 0.03%
Bharti Airtel Limited 0.03%
Bank of Baroda 0.02%
PNB Housing Finance Limited 0.02%
Indus Towers Limited 0.02%

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 Aug 2026 and 30 Sep 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₹5.0 cr shares added, valued at this filing
Sold₹2.2 cr shares reduced or exited
New positions27 stocks not held a month ago
Sold out of4 stocks fully exited
Price move of what it held -5.37% 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
HSBC Liquid Fund - Direct Growth 21,197 entered — 6.0 6.0
PNB Housing Finance Limited 9,750 entered — 1.1 1.1
ITC Limited 36,225 entered — 1.0 1.0
Trent Limited 3,600 entered — 0.9 0.9
Infosys Limited 9,200 entered — 0.9 0.9
GAIL (India) Limited 35,500 entered — 0.6 0.6
Astral Limited 3,825 entered — 0.5 0.5
IndusInd Bank Limited 5,600 entered — 0.5 0.5
Added tobought more shares than last month 7
HDFC Bank Limited 24,700 +84.4% 0.0% 1.8 3.8
ICICI Bank Limited 7,700 +100.0% -9.1% 1.0 2.0
The Federal Bank Limited 30,000 +109.1% -11.0% 1.0 1.8
Reliance Industries Limited 4,500 +112.5% -7.1% 0.5 1.0
Bharti Airtel Limited 2,850 +75.0% -3.0% 0.5 1.2
Bank of Baroda 8,775 +21.4% -3.4% 0.2 1.2
TVS Motor Company Limited 175 +33.3% -5.4% 0.1 0.3
Trimmedcut the share count, without selling out 6
HDFC Asset Management Company Limited 3,300 -84.6% -13.0% 0.8 0.1
State Bank of India 5,250 -53.9% -9.5% 0.5 0.4
Bajaj Finance Limited 4,500 -46.2% -9.2% 0.4 0.5
Cummins India Limited 600 -75.0% -6.8% 0.3 0.1
Tata Steel Limited 5,500 -9.5% 0.0% 0.1 1.0
AU Small Finance Bank Limited 1,000 -10.0% -7.0% 0.1 0.9
Sold out ofheld last month, gone this month 4
SBI Life Insurance Company Limited 5,625 exited — 1.0 —
ICICI Lombard General Insurance Company Limited 2,925 exited — 0.5 —
Dabur India Limited 10,000 exited — 0.4 —
Titan Company Limited 175 exited — 0.1 —

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 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
Zerodha CASE Arbitrage Fund Zerodha CASE Mutual Fund · this scheme — — — — — -0.3%
Invesco India Arbitrage Fund Invesco Mutual Fund 7.4% — — 0.6% 1.67 -0.5%
Tata Arbitrage Fund Tata Mutual Fund 7.4% — — 0.6% 1.54 -0.6%
Kotak Arbitrage Fund Kotak Mahindra Mutual Fund 7.4% — — 0.6% 1.46 -0.6%
ADITYA BIRLA SUN LIFE ARBITRAGE FUND Aditya Birla Sun Life Mutual Fund 7.4% — — 0.6% 1.45 -0.5%
Edelweiss Arbitrage Fund Edelweiss Mutual Fund 7.3% — — 0.6% 1.43 -0.5%
Mirae Asset Arbitrage Fund Mirae Asset Mutual Fund 7.3% — — 0.6% 1.31 -0.4%
Axis Arbitrage Fund Axis Mutual Fund 7.3% — — 0.6% 1.32 -0.6%
UTI - Arbitrage Fund UTI Mutual Fund 7.3% — — 0.6% 1.31 -0.7%

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.

Compare Zerodha CASE Arbitrage Fund side by side

Returns, risk ratios, portfolio overlap, sectors and market-cap split against each of the other 39 Arbitrage funds.

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 Zerodha CASE Arbitrage Fund — Direct Plan — Growth Option?

₹10.1286 as on 5 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 Zerodha CASE 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. 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 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.