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Axis Floating Interest Rates Fund

Fund basics

Launched2 Aug 2021 5.1 years of history
CategoryIncome/Debt Oriented Schemes - Floating Interest Rates FundSEBI classification
Plan & optionDirect · Growth Option code 149049
Benchmark no equity benchmark for this category
NAV as on27 Aug 2026source AMFI

Computed from 1,237 published NAVs between 2 Aug 2021 and 28 Aug 2026 — 5.1 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
Axis Floating Interest Rates Fund Direct 0.553.234.07 7.948.447.25 7.24

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 Income/Debt Oriented Schemes - Floating Interest Rates Fund — 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 Aug 2026.

Risk measures

Fund name Volatility Sharpe Sortino Beta Alpha Max fall
Axis Floating Interest Rates Fund Direct 1.74 1.12 1.90 -1.26

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

Risk

VolatilityDownside volatilitySharpeSortino
1.7%1.0%1.121.90

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

The worst it has been

Deepest fallTime to recoverToday, from its peak
-1.3%0 monthsAt a high
0%0%-1%-1%202220242026
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
12.7%7.5%3.4%0%
Worst3.4%Median7.5%Best12.7%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

5.0%20227.5%20239.7%20247.9%20255.1%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 ₹733,724 today, an XIRR of 7.99% 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

89.53%Debt
7.83%Cash & Equivalents
1.68%Equity
0.95%AIF Units

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 92.2%92.2%Unclassified 92.2%
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 stocks23
Top 5 stocks42.21%
Top 10 stocks60.28%
Top 20 stocks89.53%
Largest single holding9.97%
Largest sectorSovereign · 37.70%
Number of sectors11
Effective stocks18.9
Cash & equivalents7.83%

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

Sovereign — 37.7%CRISIL AAA — 10.6%CARE A1+ — 9.9%Cash & Equivalents — 7.8%CRISIL AA — 7.6%ICRA AA+ — 7.0%IND A1+ — 6.7%ICRA AA — 3.5%ICRA A1+ — 3.3%Other — 5.9%Sovereign37.7%CRISIL AAA10.6%CARE A1+9.9%Cash & Equivalents7.8%CRISIL AA7.6%ICRA AA+7.0%IND A1+6.7%ICRA AA3.5%ICRA A1+3.3%Other5.9%
Where the equity money sits, by industry.

Largest holdings

Top 10 are 62.4% of the fund. A high number means a concentrated portfolio — fewer names doing more of the work, for better and for worse.

7.24% Government of India (18/08/2055) 9.97%
HDFC Bank Limited (15/02/2027) 9.91%
6.9% Government of India (15/04/2065) 9.43%
Bank of Baroda (06/01/2027) 6.66%
7.34% Government of India (22/04/2064) 6.24%
Clearing Corporation of India Ltd 5.60%
Jubilant Bevco Limited (31/05/2028) (ZCB) 3.80%
Jubilant Beverages Limited (31/05/2028) (ZCB) 3.78%
7.86% Bihar State Development Loans (11/02/2039) 3.50%
7.71% Government of India (18/05/2066) 3.50%
7.96% Pipeline Infrastructure Private Limited (11/03/2028) 3.49%
360 One Prime Limited (25/07/2028) (FRN) 3.49%

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 a Income/Debt Oriented Schemes - Floating Interest Rates Fund scheme is

A SEBI-classified mutual fund scheme.

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Questions people ask

What is the NAV of Axis Floating Interest Rates Fund — Direct Plan — Growth Option?

₹1,426.8040 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 Axis Floating Interest Rates 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?

A SEBI-classified mutual fund scheme.