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quant Equity Savings Fund

Direct Plan Growth Option Equity Savings quant Mutual Fund Code 153705 ISIN INF966L01EC8

Fund basics

Launched25 Jul 2025 1.1 years of history
CategoryEquity SavingsSEBI classification
Plan & optionDirect · Growth Option code 153705
BenchmarkNifty 100 used for alpha & beta below
NAV as on26 Aug 2026source AMFI

Returns

Returns for this scheme are not computed yet — we need at least three years of published NAV. The NAV above is today's, straight from AMFI.

Direct vs Regular — same portfolio, two prices

The same fund, the same manager, the same shares. The only difference is the distributor commission inside the Regular plan's expense ratio — charged every year, on the whole balance.

PlanNAV1y3y5y
Direct (this page) 10.9010
Regular 10.6983

The two NAVs are 1.9% apart today. They started life at the same ₹10 — the whole of that gap is what the commission has taken out of the Regular plan since launch.

Everything the NAV says

Computed from 268 published NAVs between 25 Jul 2025 and 27 Aug 2026 — 1.1 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
quant Equity Savings Fund Direct 1.493.245.51 8.26 8.10
Nifty 100 benchmark 1.051.76-2.99 0.6610.509.33 12.76
Equity Savings category median · 24 funds 5.699.888.69 8.95

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 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 26 Aug 2026.

Risk measures

Fund name Volatility Sharpe Sortino Beta Alpha Max fall
quant Equity Savings Fund Direct 5.66 0.28 0.43 0.43 3.88 -4.96
Nifty 100 benchmark 17.12 0.23 0.32 -37.03

Risk measures use a risk-free rate of 6.5% and are stated so they can be checked — a ratio quoted without its risk-free rate cannot be. Beta and alpha need an index, so they are blank for the benchmark row itself.

Against its benchmark

Regressed on the 13 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
3.88%0.4383%6.61%55%12%9.67%0.684.34

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
5.7%3.8%0.280.43

Sharpe and Sortino use a risk-free rate of 6.5%, roughly the 10-year government bond. Both are stated so the figure can be checked — a ratio quoted without its risk-free rate cannot be.

The worst it has been

Deepest fallTime to recoverToday, from its peak
-5.0%1 months-0.8%
0%-2%-4%-6%2026
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.

Calendar years

20267.1%

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

75.97%Equity
11.08%Mutual Fund Units
8.81%Cash & Equivalents
4.14%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

40.01%Large
19.85%Mid
16.11%Small
Large Cap 40.0%40.0%Mid Cap 19.9%19.9%Small Cap 16.1%16.1%Unclassified 22.6%22.6%Large Cap 40.0%Mid Cap 19.9%Small Cap 16.1%Unclassified 22.6%
Against AMFI's half-yearly ranking — companies 1–100 by market value are Large, 101–250 Mid, 251 and below Small. The rest is unclassified — debt, cash, foreign holdings, gold or fund units, which AMFI does not rank. This is what tells you whether a fund is living up to its category label or quietly drifting.

Concentration

Number of stocks20
Top 5 stocks40.33%
Top 10 stocks65.14%
Top 20 stocks98.59%
Largest single holding11.08%
Largest sectorN.A. · 18.49%
Number of sectors14
Effective stocks17.1
Cash & equivalents1.41%

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

N.A. — 19.9%Telecom - Services — 14.5%Transport Infrastructure — 12.7%IT - Software — 9.8%Finance — 7.9%Construction — 6.8%Automobiles — 5.5%Petroleum Products — 4.9%Banks — 4.7%Other — 13.4%N.A.19.9%Telecom - Services14.5%Transport Infrastructure12.7%IT - Software9.8%Finance7.9%Construction6.8%Automobiles5.5%Petroleum Products4.9%Banks4.7%Other13.4%
Where the equity money sits, by industry. The biggest few sectors decide most of what this fund does in any given year — a fund heavy in one sector is making a bet, whether or not its name says so.

Largest holdings

Top 10 are 65.1% of the fund. A high number means a concentrated portfolio — fewer names doing more of the work, for better and for worse.

Quant Liquid Fund-Growth -Direct Plan 11.08%
JSW Infrastructure Limited 8.53%
TREPS 01-Jul-2026 DEPO 10 7.40%
Larsen & Toubro Limited 6.83%
HFCL Limited 6.48%
Hyundai Motor India Limited 5.50%
Hexaware Technologies Limited 4.95%
Reliance Industries Limited 4.87%
Tech Mahindra Limited 4.81%
Bandhan Bank Ltd. 4.68%
Indus Towers Limited 4.62%
Bajaj Finance Limited 4.36%

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 with its closest peers

The same category, the same plan, the same option — the only comparison that means anything. A Equity Savings Direct Plan Growth Option scheme against another of exactly the same kind.

Return window
Scheme Return Alpha Beta Volatility Sharpe Max fall
quant Equity Savings Fund quant Mutual Fund · this scheme 3.9% 0.43 5.7% 0.28 -5.0%
Axis Equity Savings Fund Axis Mutual Fund 10.2% 0.4% 0.42 6.8% 0.55 -17.6%
Baroda BNP Paribas Equity Savings Fund Baroda BNP Paribas Mutual Fund 10.2% 0.7% 0.28 5.4% 0.69 -8.4%
HDFC Equity Savings Fund HDFC Mutual Fund 9.1% 0.9% 0.40 5.8% 0.45 -17.0%
Nippon India Equity Savings Fund (Existing number of Segregated Portfolios - 2) Nippon India Mutual Fund 7.4% -3.5% 0.45 6.8% 0.13 -31.7%
Nippon India Equity Savings Fund (Existing number of Segregated Portfolios - 2) Nippon India Mutual Fund 31.2% 15.4% 0.41 53.8% 0.46 0.0%
Tata Equity Savings Fund Tata Mutual Fund 10.6% 0.3% 0.31 4.8% 0.84 -13.9%
Union Equity Savings Fund Union Mutual Fund 7.5% -1.2% 0.34 5.7% 0.18 -14.4%

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 quant Equity Savings Fund — Direct Plan — Growth Option?

₹10.9010 as on 26 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 quant 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.