Nippon India Balanced Advantage Fund Direct-Growth
Description
The scheme seeks to provide capital appreciation and income distribution to the investors by using equity derivatives strategies, arbitrage opportunities and pure equity investments.
The scheme seeks to capitalize on the potential upside in equity markets while attempting to limit the downside by dynamically managing the portfolio through investment in equity & equity related instruments and active use of debt, money market instruments and derivatives.
Fund Manager
Rajat Chandak, Manish Banthia, Akhil Kakkar, Sri Sharma, Sharmila DSilva
39.9% of the combined portfolio weight is common between ICICI Prudential Balanced Advantage Direct-Growth and Nippon India Balanced Advantage Fund Direct-Growth.
55 stocks appear in both portfolios.
The largest shared holding is ICICI Bank Ltd., at 4.07% of ICICI Prudential Balanced Advantage Direct-Growth and 5.94% of Nippon India Balanced Advantage Fund Direct-Growth.
The funds share a meaningful part of their portfolios but still differ enough to add some diversification.
Largest common holdings
ICICI Bank Ltd.HDFC Bank Ltd.TVS Motor Company Ltd.Reliance Industries Ltd.Infosys Ltd.Axis Bank Ltd.State Bank of IndiaLarsen & Toubro Ltd.
ICICI Prudential Balanced Advantage Direct-Growth has delivered the higher 3-year CAGR (12.87% vs 12.22%). Nippon India Balanced Advantage Fund Direct-Growth is the cheaper of the two with an expense ratio of 0.85% against 1.04%. ICICI Prudential Balanced Advantage Direct-Growth manages the larger corpus at ₹72.49k Cr. There is no single "better" fund — the right choice depends on your holding period, risk appetite and what you already own. Use the returns, risk and portfolio overlap tables above to judge which fits your portfolio, and remember that past returns do not guarantee future performance.
Over 1 year, ICICI Prudential Balanced Advantage Direct-Growth returned 9.21% against 6.97% for Nippon India Balanced Advantage Fund Direct-Growth; and over 3 years, ICICI Prudential Balanced Advantage Direct-Growth leads with a 12.87% CAGR versus 12.22%. Returns beyond one year are CAGR (annualised). Short-period returns are heavily influenced by market cycles, so compare over at least three to five years before drawing conclusions.
Nippon India Balanced Advantage Fund Direct-Growth has the lower expense ratio at 0.85%, compared with 1.04% for ICICI Prudential Balanced Advantage Direct-Growth — a difference of 0.19% a year. The expense ratio is deducted from NAV daily, so a lower ratio directly improves your net return, though it should not be the only reason to pick a fund.
Both ICICI Prudential Balanced Advantage Direct-Growth and Nippon India Balanced Advantage Fund Direct-Growth carry a "Very High" rating on the SEBI Riskometer. Within the same riskometer band, differences still show up in maximum drawdown, volatility and market-cap mix — all of which are compared in the tables above.
The portfolio overlap between the two funds is 39.9%, which is considered moderate. At this level the funds share a meaningful part of their portfolios but still differ enough to add some diversification. You can see the shared stocks in the overlap section above.
Yes — both are Hybrid: Dynamic Asset Allocation funds, which means they follow similar mandates and are benchmarked against comparable indices. That makes a direct comparison of returns, expense ratio and risk meaningful.
ICICI Prudential Balanced Advantage Direct-Growth has a NAV of ₹89.75 and an AUM of ₹72.49k Cr, and was launched on 31 Dec 2012. Nippon India Balanced Advantage Fund Direct-Growth has a NAV of ₹212.75 and an AUM of ₹9.80k Cr, launched on 31 Dec 2012. NAV on its own says nothing about how expensive or cheap a fund is — only the return on it matters.
