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Kotak Multi Asset Allocation Fund

Fund basics

Launched3 Oct 2023 2.9 years of history
CategoryMulti Asset AllocationSEBI classification
Plan & optionDirect · Growth Option code 152064
BenchmarkNifty 100 used for alpha & beta below
NAV as on27 Aug 2026source AMFI

Computed from 716 published NAVs between 3 Oct 2023 and 28 Aug 2026 — 2.9 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
Kotak Multi Asset Allocation Fund Direct 2.792.161.12 22.59 19.46
Nifty 100 benchmark 0.253.49-1.52 1.8410.529.38 12.79
Multi Asset Allocation category median · 15 funds 10.6816.2914.23 12.25

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 Multi Asset Allocation — 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
Kotak Multi Asset Allocation Fund Direct 12.07 1.07 1.47 0.66 10.38 -13.79
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.

Against its benchmark

Regressed on the 34 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.

AlphaBetaFund vs indexUp captureDown captureTracking errorInformation ratioTreynor
10.38%0.6671%8.27%87%21%7.94%1.0421.92

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
12.1%8.8%1.071.47

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

The worst it has been

Deepest fallTime to recoverToday, from its peak
-13.8%-3.2%
0%-5%-10%-15%20242026
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
36.6%18.1%3.9%0%
Worst3.9%Median18.1%Best36.6%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

17.9%202424.4%20254.4%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.

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

71.11%Equity
12.05%Mutual Fund Units
9.94%Debt

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

41.62%Large
15.12%Mid
13.28%Small
Large Cap 41.6%41.6%Mid Cap 15.1%15.1%Small Cap 13.3%13.3%Unclassified 23.1%23.1%Large Cap 41.6%Mid Cap 15.1%Small Cap 13.3%Unclassified 23.1%
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 stocks101
Top 5 stocks20.49%
Top 10 stocks32.94%
Top 20 stocks52.43%
Largest single holding7.20%
Largest sectorBanks · 11.66%
Number of sectors46
Effective stocks49.4
Cash & equivalents0.00%

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

Banks — 11.7%ETF Units — 11.5%Finance — 6.6%Power — 5.4%Automobiles — 5.3%Diversified FMCG — 5.1%Telecom - Services — 4.5%SOV — 3.4%IT - Software — 3.4%Other — 36.3%Banks11.7%ETF Units11.5%Finance6.6%Power5.4%Automobiles5.3%Diversified FMCG5.1%Telecom - Services4.5%SOV3.4%IT - Software3.4%Other36.3%
Where the equity money sits, by industry.

Largest holdings

Top 10 are 32.9% of the fund. A high number means a concentrated portfolio — fewer names doing more of the work, for better and for worse.

INF174KA1ZD3 7.20%
INF174KA1HJ8 4.28%
State Bank Of India 3.26%
Maruti Suzuki India Ltd. 2.94%
ITC Ltd. 2.81%
NTPC Ltd. 2.78%
Power Finance Corporation Ltd. 2.69%
Hero Motocorp Ltd. 2.37%
Eternal Ltd. 2.33%
Hindustan Unilever Ltd. 2.28%
Indus Towers Ltd. 2.26%
Oracle Financial Services Software Ltd. 2.17%

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 Multi Asset Allocation 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
Kotak Multi Asset Allocation Fund Kotak Mahindra Mutual Fund · this scheme 10.4% 0.66 12.1% 1.07 -13.8%
Quant Multi Asset Allocation Fund quant Mutual Fund 23.4% 14.4% 0.75 27.2% 0.62 -44.8%
Nippon India Multi Asset Allocation Fund Nippon India Mutual Fund 20.6% 7.1% 0.56 9.4% 1.50 -10.8%
WhiteOak Capital Multi Asset Allocation Fund WhiteOak Capital Mutual Fund 17.7% 9.2% 0.29 5.5% 2.04 -6.1%
Aditya Birla Sun Life Multi Asset Allocation Fund Aditya Birla Sun Life Mutual Fund 17.6% 8.4% 0.64 9.6% 1.16 -12.8%
UTI Multi Asset Allocation Fund UTI Mutual Fund 17.5% 3.7% 0.63 10.3% 1.07 -25.0%
Baroda BNP Paribas Multi Asset Fund Baroda BNP Paribas Mutual Fund 16.5% 7.1% 0.69 9.9% 1.01 -11.9%
SBI MULTI ASSET ALLOCATION FUND SBI Mutual Fund 16.4% 4.7% 0.44 6.4% 1.53 -17.6%
ICICI Prudential Multi Asset Allocation Fund ICICI Prudential Mutual Fund 16.1% 7.6% 0.70 11.6% 0.83 -30.6%

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 Multi Asset Allocation scheme is

At least 10% each in three asset classes.

Equity, debt and usually gold in one fund. The three rarely fall together, so the ride is smoother — and you never have to decide when to buy gold.

Who it suits. Investors who want one holding that already diversifies across asset classes.

How long money should stay. 5 years or more.

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Questions people ask

What is the NAV of Kotak Multi Asset Allocation Fund — Direct Plan — Growth Option?

₹16.7830 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 Kotak Multi Asset Allocation 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?

At least 10% each in three asset classes. Equity, debt and usually gold in one fund. The three rarely fall together, so the ride is smoother — and you never have to decide when to buy gold.

How long should money stay in it?

Typically 5 years or more. Investors who want one holding that already diversifies across asset classes.