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ICICI Prudential CRISIL-IBX Financial Services 3-6 Months Debt Index Fund

Option IDCW Growth
Category Index Funds →

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Fund basics

Launched20 Mar 2025 1.4 years of history
CategoryIndex FundsSEBI classification
Plan & optionRegular · Annual IDCW code 153412
BenchmarkNifty 100 used for alpha & beta below
NAV as on28 Aug 2026source AMFI

Computed from 349 published NAVs between 20 Mar 2025 and 28 Aug 2026 — 1.4 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
ICICI Prudential CRISIL-IBX Financial Services 3-6 Months Debt Index Fund Regular 0.632.023.74 6.85 7.08
Nifty 100 benchmark 0.253.49-1.52 1.8410.529.38 12.79
Index Funds category median · 188 funds 5.597.638.89 11.16

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 Index Funds — the middle fund, not a ranking, and a median rather than an average so that one mis-stated scheme cannot move it. As on 28 Aug 2026.

Risk measures

Fund name Volatility Sharpe Sortino Beta Alpha Max fall
ICICI Prudential CRISIL-IBX Financial Services 3-6 Months Debt Index Fund Regular 0.37 1.57 8.75 0.01 0.47 -0.05
Nifty 100 benchmark 17.12 0.23 0.32 -37.03

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

Risk

VolatilityDownside volatilitySharpeSortino
0.4%0.1%1.578.75

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

The worst it has been

Deepest fallTime to recoverToday, from its peak
-0.1%0 monthsAt a high

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.

Calendar years

20264.6%

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

96.45%Debt
3.55%Cash & Equivalents

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

AMFI has not classified this scheme's holdings into large, mid and small cap in the filing we hold, so there is no split to show. The section is left here rather than hidden so it is clear the data is missing, not that the fund holds nothing.

Concentration

Number of stocks18
Top 5 stocks44.67%
Top 10 stocks69.01%
Top 20 stocks96.71%
Largest single holding13.47%
Largest sectorCRISIL AAA · 50.65%
Number of sectors3
Effective stocks14.8
Cash & equivalents3.29%

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

CRISIL AAA — 57.6%CRISIL A1+ — 35.6%Cash & Equivalents — 3.6%FITCH A1+ — 3.3%CRISIL AAA57.6%CRISIL A1+35.6%Cash & Equivalents3.6%FITCH A1+3.3%
Where the equity money sits, by industry.

Largest holdings

Top 10 are 77.8% of the fund. A high number means a concentrated portfolio — fewer names doing more of the work, for better and for worse.

Power Finance Corporation Ltd. - 25-Aug-2026 11.09%
NABARD - 31-Aug-2026 11.08%
Panatone Finvest Ltd. 10.79%
Kotak Mahindra Prime Ltd. 10.74%
TREPS 6.53%
Tata Capital Housing Finance Ltd. - 18-Sep-2026 5.56%
Rural Electrification Corporation Ltd. - 31-Jul-2026 5.54%
Small Industries Development Bank Of India. - 04-Sep-2026 5.54%
Small Industries Development Bank Of India. - 31-Aug-2026 5.54%
HDFC Bank Ltd. 5.41%
Tata Capital Ltd. 5.36%
LIC Housing Finance Ltd. - 20-Aug-2026 3.33%

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 Index Funds 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
ICICI Prudential CRISIL-IBX Financial Services 3-6 Months Debt Index Fund ICICI Prudential Mutual Fund · this scheme 0.5% 0.01 0.4% 1.57 -0.1%
HDFC Silver ETF HDFC Mutual Fund 47.5% 48.0% -0.08 34.2% 1.20 -44.4%
HDFC Gold ETF HDFC Mutual Fund 38.0% 17.0% -0.03 15.3% 2.06 -29.6%
SBI Gold ETF SBI Mutual Fund 37.8% 17.1% -0.03 15.4% 2.04 -29.5%
ICICI Prudential NASDAQ 100 Index Fund ICICI Prudential Mutual Fund 30.7% 13.2% 0.55 23.4% 1.04 -30.2%
UTI Nifty 500 Value 50 Index Fund UTI Mutual Fund 24.5% 16.4% 1.20 19.8% 0.91 -22.8%
ICICI Prudential Nifty Auto Index Fund ICICI Prudential Mutual Fund 23.0% 12.7% 1.12 17.7% 0.93 -28.5%
Kotak Nifty Smallcap 50 Index Fund Kotak Mahindra Mutual Fund 21.3% 14.7% 1.26 19.5% 0.76 -25.1%
Aditya Birla Sun Life Nifty Smallcap 50 Index Fund Aditya Birla Sun Life Mutual Fund 21.3% 5.4% 1.18 20.0% 0.74 -37.0%

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 Index Funds scheme is

Track an index, holding its constituents in its proportions.

No manager, no stock picking, and an expense ratio a fraction of an active fund's. Over long periods that fee gap alone beats a majority of active large-cap funds — which is the strongest argument index funds have.

Who it suits. Anybody who would rather have the market's return at the lowest cost than try to beat it.

How long money should stay. 5 years or more.

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Questions people ask

What is the NAV of ICICI Prudential CRISIL-IBX Financial Services 3-6 Months Debt Index Fund — Regular Plan — Annual IDCW?

₹11.0393 as on 28 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 CRISIL-IBX Financial Services 3-6 Months Debt Index 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 Annual IDCW option mean?

An IDCW option pays part of the fund's gains out to you, and the NAV falls by exactly what it pays. It is not extra return — it is your own money returned, taxed at your slab rate. That also means a return computed from NAV alone understates an IDCW scheme, which is why no CAGR is shown here for it.

What kind of scheme is this?

Track an index, holding its constituents in its proportions. No manager, no stock picking, and an expense ratio a fraction of an active fund's. Over long periods that fee gap alone beats a majority of active large-cap funds — which is the strongest argument index funds have.

How long should money stay in it?

Typically 5 years or more. Anybody who would rather have the market's return at the lowest cost than try to beat it.