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Aditya Birla Sun Life Equity Savings Fund

Option GROWTH IDCW

Fund basics

Launched1 Dec 2014 11.9 years of history
CategoryEquity SavingsSEBI classification
Plan & optionDirect · GROWTH code 132995
BenchmarkNifty 100 used for alpha & beta below
NAV as on27 Oct 2026source AMFI

Computed from 2,895 published NAVs between 1 Dec 2014 and 28 Aug 2026 — 11.7 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
Aditya Birla Sun Life Equity Savings Fund Direct 0.653.082.87 6.788.497.24 9.528.198.53
Nifty 100 benchmark 0.253.49-1.52 1.8410.529.38 ——12.79
Equity Savings category median · 24 funds ——— 1.718.847.65 —8.54—

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 Equity Savings — 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 Equity Savings Fund Direct 3.08 0.65 0.94 0.21 1.15 -17.79
Nifty 100 benchmark 14.37 0.28 0.40 —— -37.03

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

Against its benchmark

Regressed on the 36 months this fund and Nifty 100 (via Axis Nifty 100 Index Fund) both have. Alpha is Jensen's — the return left over after the market move this fund's own beta would predict.

AlphaBetaR²Fund vs indexUp captureDown captureTracking errorInformation ratioTreynor
1.15%0.2192%-2.10%37%7%11.46%-0.189.70

Up and down capture are the pair worth reading together: a fund that takes 95% of the rises but only 80% of the falls is doing something a headline CAGR will never show you.

Risk

VolatilityDownside volatilitySharpeSortino
3.1%2.1%0.650.94

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

The worst it has been

Deepest fallTime to recoverToday, from its peak
-17.8%7 monthsAt a high
0%-7%-13%-20%201620182020202220242026
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
36.4%8.7%-8.4%11%
Worst-8.4%Median8.7%Best36.4%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

14.0%20210.0%202212.5%20238.7%20249.5%20253.1%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 ₹738,081 today, an XIRR of 8.22% 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

72.62%Equity
9.87%Mutual Fund Units
8.79%Debt
4.79%Cash & Equivalents
3.31%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

51.42%Large
17.04%Mid
5.99%Small
Large Cap 51.4%51.4%Mid Cap 17.0%17.0%Small Cap 6.0%6.0%Unclassified 21.7%21.7%Large Cap 51.4%Mid Cap 17.0%Small Cap 6.0%Unclassified 21.7%
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 stocks115
Top 5 stocks25.74%
Top 10 stocks40.20%
Top 20 stocks58.15%
Largest single holding7.21%
Largest sectorBanks · 22.29%
Number of sectors41
Effective stocks41.8
Cash & equivalents4.79%

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 — 22.3%Unclassified — 10.5%Sovereign — 7.9%Transport Infrastructure — 6.0%Fertilizers & Agrochemicals — 4.8%Cash & Equivalents — 4.8%Telecom - Services — 3.4%Petroleum Products — 3.4%Realty — 3.3%Other — 33.6%Banks22.3%Unclassified10.5%Sovereign7.9%Transport Infrastructure6.0%Fertilizers & Agrochemica…4.8%Cash & Equivalents4.8%Telecom - Services3.4%Petroleum Products3.4%Realty3.3%Other33.6%
Where the equity money sits, by industry.

Largest holdings

Top 10 are 42.7% of the fund. A high number means a concentrated portfolio — fewer names doing more of the work, for better and for worse.

ICICI Bank Ltd. 7.21%
HDFC Bank Ltd. 5.16%
TREPS 4.86%
UPL Ltd. 4.84%
Aditya Birla Sun Life Liquid Fund Direct Plan Growth 4.71%
Aditya Birla Sun Life Money Market Fund - Growth - Direct Plan 3.81%
Reliance Industries Ltd. 3.38%
Kotak Mahindra Bank Ltd. 3.00%
Patanjali Foods Ltd. 2.94%
Adani Ports and Special Economic Zone Ltd. 2.77%
GMR Airports Ltd. 2.38%
Axis Bank Ltd. 2.11%

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₹26.1 cr shares added, valued at this filing
Sold₹94.7 cr shares reduced or exited
New positions10 stocks not held a month ago
Sold out of7 stocks fully exited
Price move of what it held +0.58% 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
UPL Ltd. 951,210 entered — 57.5 57.5
Ather Energy Ltd. 62,031 entered — 7.8 7.8
Capillary Technologies India Ltd. 100,000 entered — 5.0 5.0
SBI funds Management ltd. 77,138 entered — 4.5 4.5
Gujarat Energy Ltd. 150,000 entered — 4.1 4.1
Biocon Ltd. 56,956 entered — 2.4 2.4
Cube Highways Trust 113,185 entered — 1.8 1.8
Hyundai Motor India Ltd. 7,425 entered — 1.6 1.6
Added tobought more shares than last month 6
Vedanta Ltd. 359,950 +144.0% -5.9% 9.5 16.1
Adani Enterprises Ltd. 15,642 +31.1% -0.9% 4.7 19.8
Larsen & Toubro Ltd. 11,025 +58.3% -4.9% 4.3 11.8
Axis Bank Ltd. 29,375 +18.1% -8.6% 3.6 23.6
Interglobe Aviation Ltd. 4,500 +150.0% -3.7% 2.3 3.9
Bajaj Auto Ltd. 1,425 +5,277.8% +18.7% 1.6 1.7
Trimmedcut the share count, without selling out 8
RBL Bank Ltd. 806,450 -62.7% +1.8% 30.3 18.0
HDFC Bank Ltd. 174,450 -17.7% -6.2% 13.1 60.8
ICICI Bank Ltd. 79,700 -11.6% +4.4% 11.4 87.4
Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd. 23,000 -23.3% +10.7% 7.8 25.7
Patanjali Foods Ltd. 199,950 -17.2% -13.7% 7.1 34.1
Bharti Airtel Ltd. 33,250 -27.1% +6.5% 6.6 17.6
Eternal Ltd. 138,225 -60.4% +14.3% 4.2 2.7
Reliance Industries Ltd. 30,000 -8.6% +1.1% 3.9 41.5
Sold out ofheld last month, gone this month 7
JSW Infrastructure Ltd 127,033 exited — 4.1 —
Bandhan Bank Limited 126,000 exited — 2.6 —
IndusInd Bank Limited 25,000 exited — 2.3 —
Tata Motors Limited 29,088 exited — 1.2 —
Billionbrains Garage Ventures Ltd 50,150 exited — 1.0 —
Swiggy Ltd 41,975 exited — 1.0 —
MphasiS Limited 825 exited — 0.2 —

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 Equity Savings 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
Aditya Birla Sun Life Equity Savings Fund Aditya Birla Sun Life Mutual Fund · this scheme 8.5% 1.2% 0.21 3.1% 0.65 -17.8%
Nippon India Equity Savings Fund (Existing number of Segregated Portfolios - 2) Nippon India Mutual Fund 31.2% 17.9% 1.28 72.8% 0.34 0.0%
HSBC Equity Savings Fund HSBC Mutual Fund 13.8% 5.5% 0.39 8.1% 0.91 -11.5%
Edelweiss Equity Savings Fund Edelweiss Mutual Fund 11.8% 4.2% 0.28 4.3% 1.25 -9.5%
Tata Equity Savings Fund Tata Mutual Fund 10.6% 1.9% 0.27 3.4% 1.22 -13.9%
Mirae Asset Equity Savings Fund Mirae Asset Mutual Fund 10.6% 2.3% 0.42 6.2% 0.66 -18.2%
Kotak Equity Savings Fund Kotak Mahindra Mutual Fund 10.9% 2.7% 0.41 6.3% 0.70 -16.5%
Baroda BNP Paribas Equity Savings Fund Baroda BNP Paribas Mutual Fund 10.2% 2.0% 0.40 6.0% 0.62 -8.4%
Mahindra Manulife Equity Savings Fund Mahindra Manulife Mutual Fund 10.2% 2.1% 0.36 5.4% 0.69 -20.5%

Alpha and beta are against Nifty 100. 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 Equity Savings scheme is

Equity, arbitrage and debt together.

Taxed as an equity fund while behaving much more like a debt one, because a large part of the equity is hedged. The tax treatment is the point.

Who it suits. Money with a two- to three-year horizon that would otherwise sit in a debt fund.

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 Equity Savings Fund — Direct Plan — GROWTH?

₹25.7400 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 Equity Savings 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?

Equity, arbitrage and debt together. Taxed as an equity fund while behaving much more like a debt one, because a large part of the equity is hedged. The tax treatment is the point.

How long should money stay in it?

Typically 2 to 3 years. Money with a two- to three-year horizon that would otherwise sit in a debt fund.