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Zerodha CASE Life Cycle Fund 2041

Fund basics

Launched13 Jul 2026 0.3 years of history
CategoryLife Cycle Funds - Life Cycle Fund with Maturity of 15 YearsSEBI classification
Plan & optionDirect · Growth Option code 154437
Benchmark— no equity benchmark for this category
NAV as on5 Nov 2026source AMFI

Computed from 81 published NAVs between 13 Jul 2026 and 5 Nov 2026 — 0.3 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
Zerodha CASE Life Cycle Fund 2041 Direct 2.38-3.11— ——— ———

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 Life Cycle Funds - Life Cycle Fund with Maturity of 15 Years — 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 Life Cycle Fund 2041 Direct — — — — — -9.85

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
-9.8%—-3.7%
0%-4%-7%-11%
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
———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

76.69%Equity
12.35%Debt
4.47%Gold
4.42%Silver
2.07%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

41.18%Large
33.90%Mid
1.61%Small
Large Cap 41.2%41.2%Mid Cap 33.9%33.9%Small Cap 1.6%Unclassified 21.2%21.2%Large Cap 41.2%Mid Cap 33.9%Small Cap 1.6%Unclassified 21.2%
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 stocks253
Top 5 stocks27.31%
Top 10 stocks35.07%
Top 20 stocks43.45%
Largest single holding12.35%
Largest sectorBanks · 13.09%
Number of sectors47
Effective stocks40.3
Cash & equivalents2.07%

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 — 13.1%Sovereign — 12.4%Unclassified — 8.9%Pharmaceuticals & Biotechnology — 5.3%IT - Software — 4.5%Finance — 4.5%Electrical Equipment — 3.1%Automobiles — 3.1%Capital Markets — 3.1%Other — 42.1%Banks13.1%Sovereign12.4%Unclassified8.9%Pharmaceuticals & Biotech…5.3%IT - Software4.5%Finance4.5%Electrical Equipment3.1%Automobiles3.1%Capital Markets3.1%Other42.1%
Where the equity money sits, by industry.

Largest holdings

Top 10 are 35.9% of the fund. A high number means a concentrated portfolio — fewer names doing more of the work, for better and for worse.

6.94% GOI 11-May-2036 12.35%
Zerodha Gold ETF 4.47%
Zerodha Silver ETF 4.42%
HDFC Bank Limited 3.24%
ICICI Bank Limited 2.83%
Reliance Industries Limited 2.39%
Clearing Corporation of India Limited 2.05%
Bharti Airtel Limited 1.61%
Larsen & Toubro Limited 1.32%
BSE Ltd 1.24%
State Bank of India 1.20%
Axis Bank Limited 1.06%

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₹0.3 cr shares added, valued at this filing
Sold₹0.1 cr shares reduced or exited
New positions0 stocks not held a month ago
Sold out of0 stocks fully exited
Price move of what it held -6.11% 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
Added tobought more shares than last month 8
Reliance Industries Limited 44 +1.3% -7.1% 0.0 0.4
Bharti Airtel Limited 34 +2.2% -3.0% 0.0 0.3
State Bank of India 58 +2.7% -9.5% 0.0 0.2
Zerodha Silver ETF 3,133 +0.9% -6.4% 0.0 0.8
HDFC Bank Limited 66 +0.8% 0.0% 0.0 0.6
ICICI Bank Limited 31 +0.8% -9.1% 0.0 0.5
Larsen & Toubro Limited 12 +2.0% -7.0% 0.0 0.2
BSE Ltd 16 +2.3% -5.8% 0.0 0.2
Trimmedcut the share count, without selling out 8
Bajaj Finance Limited 3 -0.2% -9.2% 0.0 0.1
ITC Limited 8 -0.2% +2.8% 0.0 0.1
Eternal Limited 14 -0.4% -2.5% 0.0 0.1
IndusInd Bank Limited 3 -0.3% -11.3% 0.0 0.1
APL Apollo Tubes Limited 2 -0.7% -1.5% 0.0 0.1
Bajaj Auto Limited 2 -3.4% -10.4% 0.0 0.1
Max Financial Services Limited 1 -0.2% -12.7% 0.0 0.1
SWIGGY LIMITED 7 -0.3% -11.3% 0.0 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.

What a Life Cycle Funds - Life Cycle Fund with Maturity of 15 Years scheme is

A SEBI-classified mutual fund scheme.

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Questions people ask

What is the NAV of Zerodha CASE Life Cycle Fund 2041 — Direct Plan — Growth Option?

₹9.8197 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 Life Cycle Fund 2041?

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?

A SEBI-classified mutual fund scheme.