Sundaram Balanced Advantage Fund
The scheme seeks to generate long term capital appreciation with relatively lower volatility by allocation of funds into equity assets based on Price Earning Ratio (PE Ratio) levels. When the markets become expensive in terms of Price to Earnings Ratio; the scheme will reduce its allocation to equities and move assets into debt and/or money market instruments and vice versa.
Growthvine rating: 2/5 — ranked #23 of 35 in category.
Fund basics
| Category | Hybrid: Balanced Advantage |
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| NAV | ₹35.82 (as of 2026-08-21) |
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| AUM | ₹1,664 Cr |
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| Expense ratio | 1.79% |
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| Riskometer | High |
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| Fund manager | Bharath S |
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| Exit load | For units in excess of 25% of the investment, 1% will be charged for redemption within 365 days |
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Performance & risk
| Sharpe ratio | 0.24 |
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| Standard deviation | 9.18% |
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| Max drawdown | -10.13% |
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| Alpha | 0 |
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| Beta | 0 |
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Over 5 years, captured 104.1% of NIFTY 50 Hybrid Composite Debt 50:50 Index's upside and 107.1% of its downside.
Market cap allocation
| Large cap | 64.9% |
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| Mid cap | 19.1% |
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| Small cap | 16.0% |
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Concentration
| Top 5 holdings | 25.2% |
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| Top 10 holdings | 38.4% |
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| Total holdings | 77 |
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Top holdings
- Net Receivable / Payable — 13.9%
- ICICI Bank Ltd. — 7.4%
- HDFC Bank Ltd. — 5.2%
- Reliance Industries Ltd — 4.8%
- Bharti Airtel Ltd. — 4.1%
- Eternal Limited — 3.7%
- 6.48% Central Government Securities 06/10/2035 — 3.4%
- Kotak Mahindra Bank Ltd. — 3.2%
- Larsen & Toubro Limited — 3.0%
- Bajaj Finserv Limited — 2.7%
Top sectors
- Banking & Financial — 19.5%
- Finance & Investments — 7.6%
- Automobile — 6.7%
Calendar-year track record
| Year | Return | Quartile | Category rank |
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| 2026 (partial) | -0.5% | Q3 | #25 of 35 |
| 2025 | 5.1% | Q3 | #20 of 34 |
| 2024 | 12.6% | Q3 | #17 of 30 |
| 2023 | 14.1% | Q4 (Bottom) | #25 of 26 |