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ADITYA BIRLA SUN LIFE ARBITRAGE FUND

Option GROWTH IDCW
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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

Launched27 Jul 2009 17.3 years of history
CategoryArbitrageSEBI classification
Plan & optionRegular · GROWTH code 112088
Benchmark— no equity benchmark for this category
NAV as on27 Oct 2026source AMFI

Computed from 4,211 published NAVs between 27 Jul 2009 and 28 Aug 2026 — 17.1 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
ADITYA BIRLA SUN LIFE ARBITRAGE FUND Regular 0.431.912.84 5.876.725.99 5.515.706.29
Arbitrage category median · 31 funds ——— 6.096.546.06 —5.75—

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 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 27 Oct 2026.

Risk measures

Fund name Volatility Sharpe Sortino Beta Alpha Max fall
ADITYA BIRLA SUN LIFE ARBITRAGE FUND Regular 0.53 0.42 0.60 — — -0.91

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

Risk

VolatilityDownside volatilitySharpeSortino
0.5%0.4%0.420.60

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

The worst it has been

Deepest fallTime to recoverToday, from its peak
-0.9%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
10.6%6.4%2.4%0%
Worst2.4%Median6.4%Best10.6%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

3.8%20214.1%20227.1%20237.5%20246.4%20253.8%2026InvestVerdict
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 ₹706,206 today, an XIRR of 6.46% 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

69.35%Equity
17.02%Mutual Fund Units
10.51%Debt
3.12%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

52.31%Large
15.81%Mid
3.20%Small
Large Cap 52.3%52.3%Mid Cap 15.8%15.8%Small Cap 3.2%Unclassified 27.4%27.4%Large Cap 52.3%Mid Cap 15.8%Small Cap 3.2%Unclassified 27.4%
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 stocks204
Top 5 stocks23.51%
Top 10 stocks34.60%
Top 20 stocks47.29%
Largest single holding10.18%
Largest sectorUnclassified · 17.02%
Number of sectors46
Effective stocks47.1
Cash & equivalents3.12%

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 — 17.0%Banks — 16.4%ICRA A1+ — 7.8%Telecom - Services — 5.8%Finance — 4.5%Petroleum Products — 3.9%Pharmaceuticals & Biotechnology — 3.3%Ferrous Metals — 3.2%Cash & Equivalents — 3.1%Other — 35.0%Unclassified17.0%Banks16.4%ICRA A1+7.8%Telecom - Services5.8%Finance4.5%Petroleum Products3.9%Pharmaceuticals & Biotech…3.3%Ferrous Metals3.2%Cash & Equivalents3.1%Other35.0%
Where the equity money sits, by industry.

Largest holdings

Top 10 are 36.6% of the fund. A high number means a concentrated portfolio — fewer names doing more of the work, for better and for worse.

Aditya Birla Sun Life Money Market Fund - Growth - Direct Plan 10.18%
TREPS 3.62%
Aditya Birla Sun Life Floating Interest Rate Fund-Direct Plan-Growth 3.56%
HDFC Bank Ltd. 3.52%
ICICI Bank Ltd. 3.37%
Reliance Industries Ltd. 2.87%
Aditya Birla Sun Life Liquid Fund - Growth - Direct Plan 2.55%
Bharti Airtel Ltd. 2.38%
Vodafone Idea Ltd. 2.35%
Axis Bank Ltd. 2.20%
Larsen & Toubro Ltd. 1.61%
State Bank of India 1.60%

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 Jun 2026 and 31 Jul 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₹1,997 cr shares added, valued at this filing
Sold₹1,919 cr shares reduced or exited
New positions19 stocks not held a month ago
Sold out of10 stocks fully exited
Price move of what it held +1.27% 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
Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. 234,900 entered — 55.6 55.6
Infosys Ltd. 482,000 entered — 54.5 54.5
Persistent Systems Ltd. 69,125 entered — 38.4 38.4
Polycab India Ltd. 37,000 entered — 33.7 33.7
Bajaj Auto Ltd. 25,950 entered — 29.9 29.9
Tata Elxsi Ltd. 74,500 entered — 27.4 27.4
Kaynes Technology India Ltd. 70,200 entered — 26.7 26.7
Coforge Ltd. 139,650 entered — 24.0 24.0
Added tobought more shares than last month 8
Aditya Birla Sun Life Liquid Fund Direct Plan Growth 5,507,379 +139.4% +0.5% 251 431
Larsen & Toubro Ltd. 322,175 +61.0% -4.9% 127 335
Vedanta Ltd. 3,366,050 +136.4% -5.9% 89.0 154
Muthoot Finance Ltd. 273,900 +146.0% +4.1% 85.5 144
Hindalco Industries Ltd. 820,400 +37.4% +1.9% 79.9 294
Vodafone Idea Ltd. 53,820,675 +12.2% -10.0% 70.0 645
The Federal Bank Ltd. 1,540,000 +54.1% +8.7% 55.3 157
Union Bank of India 3,163,875 +916.7% -0.7% 54.2 60.1
Trimmedcut the share count, without selling out 8
HDFC Bank Ltd. 4,017,650 -25.7% -6.2% 301 870
Titan Company Ltd. 347,900 -58.8% +10.7% 170 119
Maruti Suzuki India Ltd. 102,500 -38.6% +0.8% 146 232
Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. 511,700 -85.2% +6.9% 102 17.8
IndusInd Bank Ltd. 913,500 -87.7% +9.6% 92.5 13.0
REC Ltd. 2,346,750 -81.7% +2.5% 87.5 19.6
Kalyan Jewellers India Ltd. 1,382,400 -48.7% +58.4% 84.7 89.3
Eternal Ltd. 2,599,600 -23.0% +14.3% 78.6 264
Sold out ofheld last month, gone this month 8
Lodha Developers Limited 986,250 exited — 94.2 —
Exide Industries Limited 1,594,800 exited — 61.8 —
Swiggy Ltd 1,651,625 exited — 39.5 —
Avenue Supermarts Limited 88,950 exited — 39.0 —
Kfin Technologies Ltd 276,000 exited — 24.3 —
Oil India Limited 551,600 exited — 23.0 —
Dixon Technologies (India) Limited 18,550 exited — 22.1 —
Indian Railway Finance Corporation Limited 1,437,625 exited — 13.0 —

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 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
ADITYA BIRLA SUN LIFE ARBITRAGE FUND Aditya Birla Sun Life Mutual Fund · this scheme 6.7% — — 0.5% 0.42 -0.9%
Kotak Arbitrage Fund Kotak Mahindra Mutual Fund 6.9% — — 0.5% 0.75 -0.6%
Invesco India Arbitrage Fund Invesco Mutual Fund 6.8% — — 0.5% 0.62 -0.5%
UTI - Arbitrage Fund UTI Mutual Fund 6.9% — — 0.5% 0.68 -0.7%
SBI Arbitrage Fund SBI Mutual Fund 6.8% — — 0.5% 0.59 -0.7%
HDFC Arbitrage Fund HDFC Mutual Fund 6.8% — — 0.5% 0.58 -0.7%
ICICI Prudential Arbitrage Fund ICICI Prudential Mutual Fund 6.8% — — 0.5% 0.57 -1.2%
Edelweiss Arbitrage Fund Edelweiss Mutual Fund 6.8% — — 0.5% 0.51 -0.5%
Axis Arbitrage Fund Axis Mutual Fund 6.7% — — 0.5% 0.41 -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.

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 ADITYA BIRLA SUN LIFE ARBITRAGE FUND — Regular Plan — GROWTH?

₹28.6363 as on 27 Oct 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 ADITYA BIRLA SUN LIFE 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.