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Aditya Birla Sun Life Banking & PSU Debt Fund

Option GROWTH IDCW

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Fund basics

Launched first published NAV
CategoryBanking & PSUSEBI classification
Plan & optionRegular · GROWTH code 108273
Benchmark no equity benchmark for this category
NAV as on27 Aug 2026source AMFI

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

96.14%Debt
3.22%Cash & Equivalents
0.32%AIF Units
0.32%REITs / InvITs

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 96.8%96.8%Unclassified 96.8%
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 stocks205
Top 5 stocks13.05%
Top 10 stocks21.61%
Top 20 stocks34.51%
Largest single holding4.82%
Largest sectorICRA AAA · 39.37%
Number of sectors11
Effective stocks91.8
Cash & equivalents3.22%

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

ICRA AAA — 39.4%CRISIL AAA — 26.9%Sovereign — 13.0%ICRA A1+ — 6.7%CRISIL A1+ — 5.7%Cash & Equivalents — 3.2%Other — 5.2%ICRA AAA39.4%CRISIL AAA26.9%Sovereign13.0%ICRA A1+6.7%CRISIL A1+5.7%Cash & Equivalents3.2%Other5.2%
Where the equity money sits, by industry.

Largest holdings

Top 10 are 22.5% of the fund. A high number means a concentrated portfolio — fewer names doing more of the work, for better and for worse.

7.48% National Bank For Agriculture and Rural Development (15/09/2028) 4.82%
Net Receivables / (Payables) 2.44%
6.58% Indian Railway Finance Corporation Limited (30/05/2030) 2.20%
7.56% REC Limited (31/08/2027) 2.13%
8.00% HDFC Bank Limited (27/07/2032) 2.06%
7.82% Bajaj Finance Limited (31/01/2034) 1.84%
7.42% State Bank of India (29/08/2039) 1.80%
6.78% Indian Railway Finance Corporation Limited (30/04/2030) 1.80%
7.60% Power Finance Corporation Limited (13/04/2029) 1.69%
7.66% National Bank for Financing Infrastructure and Dev (16/06/2036) 1.68%
Shivshakti Securitisation Trust 2025-1 (28/09/2029) 1.59%
7.27% Power Finance Corporation Limited (15/10/2031) 1.40%

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.

How it compares in its category

Against the Banking & PSU 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
Franklin India Banking & PSU Debt Fund Franklin Templeton Mutual Fund 7.2% 1.7% 0.41 -3.7%
UTI Banking & PSU Debt Fund UTI Mutual Fund 7.1% 3.0% 0.22 -6.7%
Kotak Banking and PSU Debt Fund Kotak Mahindra Mutual Fund 7.0% 1.7% 0.27 -2.9%
ICICI Prudential Banking and PSU Debt Fund ICICI Prudential Mutual Fund 7.0% 1.5% 0.32 -2.9%
Sundaram Banking and PSU Debt Fund (Formerly Known as Sundaram Banking and PSU Fund) Sundaram Mutual Fund 7.0% 1.0% 0.47 -1.8%
Invesco India Banking and PSU Debt Fund Invesco Mutual Fund 6.9% 2.1% 0.18 -4.9%
Bandhan Banking and PSU Debt Fund Bandhan Mutual Fund 6.9% 1.5% 0.25 -3.3%
LIC MF Banking & PSU Debt Fund LIC Mutual Fund 6.8% 2.2% 0.14 -5.8%

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 Banking & PSU scheme is

At least 80% in debt of banks, PSUs and public financial institutions.

Issuers with the strongest balance sheets in the country, many state-backed. One of the safest places in debt outside government securities.

Who it suits. Investors who want safety close to a gilt fund with a little more yield.

How long money should stay. 2 to 3 years.

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Questions people ask

What is the NAV of Aditya Birla Sun Life Banking & PSU Debt Fund — Regular Plan — GROWTH?

₹387.5282 as on 27 Aug 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 Banking & PSU Debt 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?

At least 80% in debt of banks, PSUs and public financial institutions. Issuers with the strongest balance sheets in the country, many state-backed. One of the safest places in debt outside government securities.

How long should money stay in it?

Typically 2 to 3 years. Investors who want safety close to a gilt fund with a little more yield.