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ICICI Prudential Retirement Fund Pure Equity Plan

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Fund basics

Launched28 Feb 2019 7.7 years of history
CategoryRetirement FundsSEBI classification
Plan & optionDirect · Growth code 146349
BenchmarkNifty 100 used for alpha & beta below
NAV as on27 Oct 2026source AMFI

Computed from 1,847 published NAVs between 28 Feb 2019 and 28 Aug 2026 — 7.5 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 Retirement Fund Pure Equity Plan Direct 1.734.696.73 14.2022.0520.98 21.78—20.29
Nifty 100 benchmark 0.253.49-1.52 1.8410.529.38 ——12.79
Retirement Funds category median · 28 funds ——— -3.548.107.85 —9.44—

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 Retirement 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 27 Oct 2026.

Risk measures

Fund name Volatility Sharpe Sortino Beta Alpha Max fall
ICICI Prudential Retirement Fund Pure Equity Plan Direct 16.13 0.96 1.65 1.05 10.89 -37.17
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
10.89%1.0588%11.10%135%90%5.71%1.9414.45

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
16.1%9.4%0.961.65

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

The worst it has been

Deepest fallTime to recoverToday, from its peak
-37.2%8 monthsAt a high
0%-13%-25%-38%2020202220242026
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
91.2%18.9%-32.6%11%
Worst-32.6%Median18.9%Best91.2%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

49.3%20213.6%202239.9%202325.2%202415.6%20255.5%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 ₹986,994 today, an XIRR of 20.02% 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

95.77%Equity
4.22%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

50.75%Large
24.25%Mid
20.86%Small
Large Cap 50.8%50.8%Mid Cap 24.3%24.3%Small Cap 20.9%20.9%Large Cap 50.8%Mid Cap 24.3%Small Cap 20.9%
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 stocks87
Top 5 stocks18.70%
Top 10 stocks29.97%
Top 20 stocks47.89%
Largest single holding4.99%
Largest sectorElectrical Equipment · 8.32%
Number of sectors35
Effective stocks56.7
Cash & equivalents4.22%

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

Electrical Equipment — 8.3%Industrial Products — 7.6%Banks — 7.3%Capital Markets — 5.9%Diversified Fmcg — 5.3%Consumer Durables — 4.7%Cash & Equivalents — 4.2%Petroleum Products — 3.9%Realty — 3.9%Other — 48.9%Electrical Equipment8.3%Industrial Products7.6%Banks7.3%Capital Markets5.9%Diversified Fmcg5.3%Consumer Durables4.7%Cash & Equivalents4.2%Petroleum Products3.9%Realty3.9%Other48.9%
Where the equity money sits, by industry.

Largest holdings

Top 10 are 31.8% of the fund. A high number means a concentrated portfolio — fewer names doing more of the work, for better and for worse.

HDFC Bank Ltd. 4.99%
TREPS 4.00%
Reliance Industries Ltd. 3.94%
Multi Commodity Exchange Of India Ltd. 3.81%
Hindustan Unilever Ltd. 3.60%
Bharti Airtel Ltd. 2.36%
Cummins India Ltd. 2.31%
Apar Industries Ltd. 2.29%
ICICI Bank Ltd. 2.29%
Avenue Supermarts Ltd. 2.25%
Britannia Industries Ltd. 2.13%
Life Insurance Corporation of India 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 31 Mar 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₹286 cr shares added, valued at this filing
Sold₹48.4 cr shares reduced or exited
New positions9 stocks not held a month ago
Sold out of14 stocks fully exited
Price move of what it held +13.60% 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
Voltamp Transformers Ltd. 22,482 entered — 22.3 22.3
Vedanta Aluminium Metal Ltd. 459,550 entered — 20.9 20.9
SKF India Ltd. 109,787 entered — 16.2 16.2
Blue Dart Express Ltd. 30,587 entered — 15.8 15.8
Biocon Ltd. 288,386 entered — 12.3 12.3
GMM Pfaudler Ltd. 92,146 entered — 8.0 8.0
Vedanta Oil And Gas Ltd. 459,550 entered — 1.6 1.6
Vedanta Power Ltd. 459,550 entered — 1.6 1.6
Added tobought more shares than last month 8
Reliance Industries Ltd. 378,416 +117.9% -2.7% 49.5 91.5
Britannia Industries Ltd. 62,958 +209.7% -0.1% 34.1 50.4
Multi Commodity Exchange Of India Ltd. 89,128 +66.4% +12.7% 24.0 60.1
Hindustan Unilever Ltd. 85,000 +28.5% +2.2% 17.9 80.5
Bharti Airtel Ltd. 87,397 +44.7% +10.6% 17.2 55.8
Hyundai Motor India Ltd. 70,400 +73.8% +22.7% 15.4 36.1
HDFC Bank Ltd. 200,000 +15.6% +2.3% 15.0 111
Pidilite Industries Ltd. 74,000 +127.2% +25.4% 11.9 21.3
Trimmedcut the share count, without selling out 8
Emmvee Photovoltaic Power Ltd. 473,856 -46.3% +46.1% 15.1 17.5
Rategain Travel Technologies Ltd. 92,499 -53.6% +109.6% 8.5 7.4
Acutaas Chemicals Ltd. 20,000 -39.0% +21.4% 6.2 9.7
Bharat Forge Ltd. 27,964 -28.5% +31.4% 6.2 15.5
Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd. 8,800 -14.3% +33.2% 4.1 24.5
ABB India Ltd. 5,411 -9.0% +22.6% 3.9 39.6
Triveni Turbine Ltd. 40,000 -11.2% +36.8% 2.4 19.2
The Phoenix Mills Ltd. 6,676 -3.9% +25.7% 1.3 31.0
Sold out ofheld last month, gone this month 8
Bajaj Auto Ltd. 19,640 exited — 17.3 —
Power Finance Corporation Ltd. 330,000 exited — 12.5 —
Thermax Ltd. 31,390 exited — 10.2 —
CreditAccess Grameen Ltd. 87,914 exited — 10.2 —
Godrej Properties Ltd. 62,937 exited — 9.3 —
Bandhan Bank Ltd. 520,000 exited — 7.4 —
Gland Pharma Ltd. 40,653 exited — 6.9 —
IndusInd Bank Ltd. 75,000 exited — 5.6 —

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 Retirement Funds 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
ICICI Prudential Retirement Fund Pure Equity Plan ICICI Prudential Mutual Fund · this scheme 22.1% 10.9% 1.05 16.1% 0.96 -37.2%
ICICI Prudential Retirement Fund Hybrid Aggressive Plan ICICI Prudential Mutual Fund 19.7% 9.3% 0.89 13.6% 0.97 -28.7%
Aditya Birla Sun Life Retirement Fund-The 30s Plan Aditya Birla Sun Life Mutual Fund 17.7% 7.1% 0.99 15.5% 0.72 -34.2%
Union Retirement Fund Union Mutual Fund 15.0% 4.5% 0.93 14.0% 0.61 -17.8%
Axis Retirement Fund - Dynamic Plan Axis Mutual Fund 13.5% 3.2% 0.90 13.4% 0.52 -17.1%
Tata Retirement Savings Fund-Progressive Plan Tata Mutual Fund 15.1% 4.2% 1.01 16.2% 0.53 -34.2%
Axis Retirement Fund - Aggressive Plan Axis Mutual Fund 12.9% 2.8% 0.82 12.1% 0.52 -25.9%
Tata Retirement Savings Fund-Moderate Plan Tata Mutual Fund 14.0% 3.8% 0.87 13.8% 0.55 -29.6%
ICICI Prudential Retirement Fund Hybrid Conservative Plan ICICI Prudential Mutual Fund 10.8% 2.9% 0.29 4.4% 0.96 -10.2%

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 Retirement Funds scheme is

Solution-oriented, with a five-year lock or until retirement.

An ordinary hybrid or equity fund wrapped in a lock-in. The lock is the feature — it stops you selling in a bad year — and it is also the cost, because the money is not available if you need it.

Who it suits. Investors who know they would otherwise interrupt a long plan.

How long money should stay. Until retirement.

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Questions people ask

What is the NAV of ICICI Prudential Retirement Fund Pure Equity Plan — Direct Plan — Growth?

₹36.5700 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 ICICI Prudential Retirement Fund Pure Equity Plan?

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?

Solution-oriented, with a five-year lock or until retirement. An ordinary hybrid or equity fund wrapped in a lock-in. The lock is the feature — it stops you selling in a bad year — and it is also the cost, because the money is not available if you need it.

How long should money stay in it?

Typically Until retirement. Investors who know they would otherwise interrupt a long plan.