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Edelweiss Equity Savings Fund

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Fund basics

Launched28 Nov 2016 9.9 years of history
CategoryEquity SavingsSEBI classification
Plan & optionRegular · Growth code 140351
BenchmarkNifty 100 used for alpha & beta below
NAV as on30 Oct 2026source AMFI

Computed from 2,408 published NAVs between 28 Nov 2016 and 28 Aug 2026 — 9.7 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
Edelweiss Equity Savings Fund Regular 1.404.065.23 8.3410.738.86 10.13—9.52
Nifty 100 benchmark 0.253.49-1.52 1.8410.529.38 ——12.79
Equity Savings category median · 25 funds ——— 0.587.246.57 —7.91—

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 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 30 Oct 2026.

Risk measures

Fund name Volatility Sharpe Sortino Beta Alpha Max fall
Edelweiss Equity Savings Fund Regular 4.27 0.99 1.53 0.28 3.06 -9.59
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
3.06%0.2886%0.09%46%8%10.54%0.0115.21

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
4.3%2.8%0.991.53

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

The worst it has been

Deepest fallTime to recoverToday, from its peak
-9.6%3 monthsAt a high
0%-2%-5%-7%20182020202220242026
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
26.1%8.7%-3.0%1%
Worst-3.0%Median8.7%Best26.1%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

11.7%20213.2%202212.9%202313.4%20248.0%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 ₹769,076 today, an XIRR of 9.88% 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

66.25%Equity
13.52%Unclassified
8.46%Debt
5.59%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

41.70%Large
15.08%Mid
8.71%Small
Large Cap 41.7%41.7%Mid Cap 15.1%15.1%Small Cap 8.7%8.7%Unclassified 28.3%28.3%Large Cap 41.7%Mid Cap 15.1%Small Cap 8.7%Unclassified 28.3%
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 stocks157
Top 5 stocks21.86%
Top 10 stocks36.02%
Top 20 stocks52.21%
Largest single holding4.92%
Largest sectorBanks · 14.96%
Number of sectors45
Effective stocks53.4
Cash & equivalents-33.17%

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 — 13.5%CRISIL AAA — 6.4%Cash & Equivalents — 6.2%Banks — 3.5%Capital Markets — 3.4%Realty — 2.9%Telecom - Services — 2.3%Finance — 2.1%SOVEREIGN — 2.1%Other — 18.3%Unclassified13.5%CRISIL AAA6.4%Cash & Equivalents6.2%Banks3.5%Capital Markets3.4%Realty2.9%Telecom - Services2.3%Finance2.1%SOVEREIGN2.1%Other18.3%
Where the equity money sits, by industry.

Largest holdings

Top 10 are 39.9% of the fund. A high number means a concentrated portfolio — fewer names doing more of the work, for better and for worse.

Clearing Corporation of India Ltd. 6.35%
HDFC Bank Ltd. 4.92%
ICICI Bank Ltd. 4.58%
EDELWEISS ULTRA SHORT TERM FUND 4.41%
Steel Authority of India Ltd. 4.26%
EDELWEISS LOW DURATION FUND 3.69%
Bharti Airtel Ltd. 3.10%
Reliance Industries Ltd. 2.93%
7.65% HDB FIN SERV NCD 10-09-27 2.92%
Adani Green Energy Ltd. 2.70%
EDELWEISS LIQUID FUND - DIRECT PL -GR 2.51%
Vodafone Idea Ltd. 2.42%

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₹78.9 cr shares added, valued at this filing
Sold₹38.1 cr shares reduced or exited
New positions3 stocks not held a month ago
Sold out of6 stocks fully exited
Price move of what it held +1.16% 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 3
Canara Bank 94,500 entered — 1.2 1.2
Kusumgar Ltd. 4,864 entered — 0.3 0.3
JSW Energy Ltd. 3,225 entered — 0.2 0.2
Added tobought more shares than last month 8
NMDC Ltd. 2,214,000 +268.9% -0.1% 18.8 25.8
Steel Authority of India Ltd. 996,400 +33.2% -2.6% 16.8 67.6
Kotak Mahindra Bank Ltd. 234,000 +216.7% -0.5% 9.1 13.4
Hindalco Industries Ltd. 73,500 +43.6% +1.9% 7.2 23.6
Axis Bank Ltd. 42,500 +32.7% -8.6% 5.2 21.2
CUBE HIGHWAYS TRUST 248,220 +41.4% +1.3% 3.9 13.3
Bajaj Auto Ltd. 2,850 +2,415.3% +18.6% 3.3 3.4
Torrent Pharmaceuticals Ltd. 5,947 +608.7% +10.9% 3.1 3.6
Trimmedcut the share count, without selling out 8
BROOKFIELD INDIA REAL ESTATE TRUST 271,335 -30.5% +3.2% 9.3 21.1
ICICI Bank Ltd. 59,500 -13.2% +4.4% 8.5 55.9
Swiggy Ltd. 173,375 -99.1% +19.0% 4.9 0.1
IndusInd Bank Ltd. 33,600 -50.0% +9.6% 3.4 3.4
Astral Ltd. 22,950 -98.9% +8.4% 3.3 0.0
Shadowfax Technologies Ltd. 106,270 -21.3% +7.4% 2.6 9.6
Dr. Reddy's Laboratories Ltd. 20,625 -98.9% -15.4% 2.4 0.0
Yes Bank Ltd. 870,800 -63.6% -5.8% 2.0 1.1
Sold out ofheld last month, gone this month 6
Premier Energies Ltd. 150,800 exited — 15.9 —
JB Chemicals & Pharmaceuticals Ltd. 12,600 exited — 2.9 —
Max Healthcare Institute Ltd. 15,225 exited — 1.7 —
Tata Steel Ltd. 44,000 exited — 0.8 —
Max Financial Services Ltd. 2,400 exited — 0.4 —
Jindal Steel Ltd. 625 exited — 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.

How it compares in its category

Against the Equity Savings 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
Edelweiss Equity Savings Fund Edelweiss Mutual Fund · this scheme 10.7% 3.1% 0.28 4.3% 0.99 -9.6%
Nippon India Equity Savings Fund (Existing number of Segregated Portfolios - 2) Nippon India Mutual Fund 31.2% 17.9% 1.28 72.7% 0.34 0.0%
HSBC Equity Savings Fund HSBC Mutual Fund 12.8% 4.5% 0.39 8.0% 0.78 -11.7%
Tata Equity Savings Fund Tata Mutual Fund 9.8% 1.1% 0.27 3.4% 1.00 -14.0%
Mirae Asset Equity Savings Fund Mirae Asset Mutual Fund 9.5% 1.2% 0.42 6.2% 0.48 -18.2%
Kotak Equity Savings Fund Kotak Mahindra Mutual Fund 9.7% 1.5% 0.41 6.2% 0.51 -16.5%
Baroda BNP Paribas Equity Savings Fund Baroda BNP Paribas Mutual Fund 9.0% 0.8% 0.40 6.0% 0.41 -8.5%
Axis Equity Savings Fund Axis Mutual Fund 8.9% 0.7% 0.38 5.7% 0.42 -17.6%
Mahindra Manulife Equity Savings Fund Mahindra Manulife Mutual Fund 8.4% 0.3% 0.36 5.4% 0.36 -20.6%

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 Edelweiss Equity Savings Fund — Regular Plan — Growth?

₹27.0618 as on 30 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 Edelweiss 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.