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Quantum Value Fund

Direct Plan Growth Option Value / Contra Quantum Mutual Fund Code 103490 ISIN INF082J01036

Fund basics

Launched3 Apr 2006 20.4 years of history
CategoryValue / ContraSEBI classification
Plan & optionDirect · Growth Option code 103490
BenchmarkNifty 500 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) 125.9700 -4.33% 11.69% 11.01%
Regular 119.2900 -5.31% 10.63% 10.15%

0.86 percentage points a year separate them over five years. On ₹1,00,000 left for ten years that is ₹284,198 against ₹262,933 — ₹21,265 for holding the same portfolio under a different label.

Everything the NAV says

Computed from 5,025 published NAVs between 3 Apr 2006 and 26 Aug 2026 — 20.4 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
Quantum Value Fund Direct 0.291.12-3.15 -3.4211.7110.90 13.6010.8813.07
Nifty 500 benchmark 1.702.710.73 3.9512.5111.37 15.46
Value / Contra category median · 24 funds 2.7915.2415.03 14.92

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 Value / Contra — 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
Quantum Value Fund Direct 16.86 0.31 0.44 0.93 -0.60 -54.22
Nifty 500 benchmark 17.17 0.35 0.47 -37.31

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 83 months this fund and Nifty 500 (via Motilal Oswal Nifty 500 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
-0.60%0.9394%-1.28%89%86%4.40%-0.299.74

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
16.9%12.0%0.310.44

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
-54.2%11 months-7.3%
0%-20%-39%-59%2008201020122014201620182020202220242026
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
128.8%11.5%-47.7%21%
Worst-47.7%Median11.5%Best128.8%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

25.5%20217.1%202227.6%202322.7%20244.6%2025-6.0%2026
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 ₹766,141 today, an XIRR of 9.72% 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

93.39%Equity
6.61%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

53.03%Large
18.13%Mid
22.23%Small
Large Cap 53.0%53.0%Mid Cap 18.1%18.1%Small Cap 22.2%22.2%Large Cap 53.0%Mid Cap 18.1%Small Cap 22.2%
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 stocks31
Top 5 stocks27.08%
Top 10 stocks44.64%
Top 20 stocks72.99%
Largest single holding7.75%
Largest sectorBanks · 27.34%
Number of sectors16
Effective stocks28.9
Cash & equivalents6.61%

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 — 27.3%IT - Software — 13.6%Insurance — 11.1%Cash & Equivalents — 6.6%Automobiles — 5.6%Pharmaceuticals & Biotechnology — 5.4%Gas — 4.3%Consumer Durables — 3.6%Auto Components — 3.4%Other — 19.1%Banks27.3%IT - Software13.6%Insurance11.1%Cash & Equivalents6.6%Automobiles5.6%Pharmaceuticals & Biotech…5.4%Gas4.3%Consumer Durables3.6%Auto Components3.4%Other19.1%
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 48.0% 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 7.75%
ICICI Bank Ltd 7.25%
TREPS 6.55%
Tata Consultancy Services Ltd 4.13%
Kotak Mahindra Bank Ltd 4.03%
Infosys Ltd 3.92%
Star Health And Allied Insurance Company Ltd 3.69%
Crompton Greaves Consumer Electricals Ltd 3.63%
Axis Bank Ltd 3.62%
Exide Industries Ltd 3.39%
ICICI Prudential Life Insurance Company Ltd 3.23%
Container Corporation of India Ltd 3.13%

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 Value / Contra Direct Plan Growth Option scheme against another of exactly the same kind.

Return window
Scheme Return Alpha Beta Volatility Sharpe Max fall
Quantum Value Fund Quantum Mutual Fund · this scheme 11.7% -0.6% 0.93 16.9% 0.31 -54.2%
Axis Value Fund Axis Mutual Fund 20.1% 7.0% 0.97 14.4% 0.94 -20.2%
Baroda BNP Paribas Value Fund Baroda BNP Paribas Mutual Fund 11.2% -1.0% 0.97 14.2% 0.33 -19.8%
Canara Robeco Value Fund Canara Robeco Mutual Fund 12.9% 4.5% 0.93 13.8% 0.47 -19.0%
HDFC Value Fund HDFC Mutual Fund 18.1% 2.8% 1.01 15.7% 0.74 -43.9%
ITI Value Fund ITI Mutual Fund 15.5% 1.4% 1.04 15.6% 0.57 -22.7%
JM Value Fund JM Financial Mutual Fund 14.4% 3.5% 1.05 18.5% 0.43 -37.9%
Nippon India Value Fund Nippon India Mutual Fund 16.4% 3.7% 1.03 16.5% 0.60 -38.6%

Alpha and beta are against Nifty 500. 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 Value / Contra scheme is

At least 65% in equity, following a value or contrarian strategy.

Buying what the market dislikes. These funds can lag for years — sometimes many years — and then make it back quickly. Judging one over three years usually judges the market's mood rather than the manager.

Who it suits. Patient investors who understand that being early looks identical to being wrong.

How long money should stay. 7 to 10 years.

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Questions people ask

What is the NAV of Quantum Value Fund — Direct Plan — Growth Option?

₹125.9700 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 Quantum Value 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 65% in equity, following a value or contrarian strategy. Buying what the market dislikes. These funds can lag for years — sometimes many years — and then make it back quickly. Judging one over three years usually judges the market's mood rather than the manager.

How long should money stay in it?

Typically 7 to 10 years. Patient investors who understand that being early looks identical to being wrong.