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ICICI Prudential Conservative Hybrid Fund

Option Growth IDCW

Fund basics

Launched first published NAV
CategoryConservative HybridSEBI classification
Plan & optionDirect · Growth code 120616
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

73.80%Debt
22.04%Equity
2.67%Cash & Equivalents
1.19%REITs / InvITs
0.30%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

13.50%Large
2.91%Mid
6.82%Small
Large Cap 13.5%13.5%Mid Cap 2.9%Small Cap 6.8%6.8%Unclassified 74.1%74.1%Large Cap 13.5%Mid Cap 2.9%Small Cap 6.8%Unclassified 74.1%
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 stocks144
Top 5 stocks15.86%
Top 10 stocks25.02%
Top 20 stocks40.50%
Largest single holding4.14%
Largest sectorSOV · 13.02%
Number of sectors52
Effective stocks72.8
Cash & equivalents2.67%

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

SOV — 13.0%CRISIL AA — 9.6%ICRA AA — 7.9%CRISIL AAA — 6.4%CRISIL A1+ — 4.4%FITCH AA — 4.2%Banks — 3.4%CRISIL AAA(SO) — 3.2%ICRA AA- — 3.1%Other — 44.9%SOV13.0%CRISIL AA9.6%ICRA AA7.9%CRISIL AAA6.4%CRISIL A1+4.4%FITCH AA4.2%Banks3.4%CRISIL AAA(SO)3.2%ICRA AA-3.1%Other44.9%
Where the equity money sits, by industry.

Largest holdings

Top 10 are 25.3% of the fund. A high number means a concentrated portfolio — fewer names doing more of the work, for better and for worse.

06.90% GOI 2065 - 15-Apr-2065 4.14%
NABARD - 30-Dec-2026 3.11%
Manappuram Finance Ltd. - 15-Dec-2027 3.08%
Adani Enterprises Ltd. - 24-Mar-2028 3.06%
L&T Metro Rail (Hyderabad) Ltd. - 30-Apr-2026 2.48%
360 One Prime Ltd. - 19-Jun-2026 2.33%
Yes Bank Ltd. - 30-Sep-2026 2.00%
Net Current Assets 1.81%
6.54% GOI Floater 2034 - 30-Oct-2034 1.71%
Godrej Properties Ltd. - 25-Jan-2028 1.56%
Indostar Capital Finance Ltd. - 24-Dec-2026 1.56%
Vedanta Ltd. - 03-Dec-2027 1.56%

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 Conservative Hybrid 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
Parag Parikh Conservative Hybrid Fund PPFAS Mutual Fund 10.5% 2.9% 1.36 -2.3%
HSBC Conservative Hybrid Fund HSBC Mutual Fund 9.6% 4.8% 0.65 -10.4%
Kotak Conservative Hybrid Fund Kotak Mahindra Mutual Fund 9.2% 4.8% 0.57 -11.8%
DSP Conservative Hybrid Fund DSP Mutual Fund 9.1% 4.3% 0.61 -12.0%
BARODA BNP PARIBAS CONSERVATIVE HYBRID FUND Baroda BNP Paribas Mutual Fund 9.0% 3.5% 0.72 -4.5%
SBI CONSERVATIVE HYBRID FUND SBI Mutual Fund 8.8% 4.2% 0.55 -11.9%
Nippon India Conservative Hybrid Fund (Existing number of Segregated Portfolios - 1) Nippon India Mutual Fund 8.9% 4.4% 0.56 -18.9%
UTI Conservative Hybrid Fund UTI Mutual Fund 8.4% 4.5% 0.41 -14.4%

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 Conservative Hybrid scheme is

75–90% debt, 10–25% equity.

Mostly debt with a slice of equity for growth. Steadier than an equity fund and more rewarding than a pure debt fund over long periods, with real but limited downside.

Who it suits. Retirees and anybody who needs the money to be mostly safe but not idle.

How long money should stay. 3 years or more.

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Questions people ask

What is the NAV of ICICI Prudential Conservative Hybrid Fund — Direct Plan — Growth?

₹87.8987 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 ICICI Prudential Conservative Hybrid 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?

75–90% debt, 10–25% equity. Mostly debt with a slice of equity for growth. Steadier than an equity fund and more rewarding than a pure debt fund over long periods, with real but limited downside.

How long should money stay in it?

Typically 3 years or more. Retirees and anybody who needs the money to be mostly safe but not idle.