ICICI Prudential Equity - Arbitrage Fund - Direct Plan - Growth

Regular

Regular and Direct options of the funds are exactly same except commission to your mutual fund broker/distributor. As an investor you do not need to pay any additional fees to purchase any of these options. However both have different expense ratios. Regular funds have higher expense ratio and direct funds have lower expense ratio. This difference is because of commission paid to broker/distributor. Lower expense ratio leads to higher returns for investors.
Direct

Regular and Direct options of the funds are exactly same except commission to your mutual fund broker/distributor. As an investor you do not need to pay any additional fees to purchase any of these options. However both have different expense ratios. Regular funds have higher expense ratio and direct funds have lower expense ratio. This difference is because of commission paid to broker/distributor. Lower expense ratio leads to higher returns for investors.

Category : Arbitrage Fund

Fund House : ICICI Prudential Mutual Fund

Scheme Objective

To seek to generate low volatility returns by using arbitrage and other derivative strategies in equity markets and investments in short-term debt portfolio.

Scheme Details

Fund manager(s) – Darshil Dedhia , Ajaykumar Solanki , Sharmila D’silva , Nikhil Kabra , Archana Nair
Launch date – 07-Jan-2013
Expense ratio – 0.4% as declared on 30-Sep-2025 (category average is 0.32%)
Benchmark - Nifty 50 Arbitrage Index

Min SIP amount - ₹
Min investment amount (one time- first time) - ₹
Min investment amount (addtional purchase) - ₹
Type : Open Ended Fund. You can invest any time in this fund.

Exit Load

ICICI Prudential Equity - Arbitrage Fund - Direct Plan - Growth charges 0.25% of sell value; if fund sold before 30 days. There are no other charges.

Asset Monitor

Total AUM for this Scheme (Cr)

Category Total AUM (Cr)

% of Assets in Category

2025

32573.00

0.00

0.00%

Sep - 2025	32573.00	0.00%
Aug - 2025	32592.70	0.00%
Jul - 2025	31526.24	0.00%
Jun - 2025	30811.49	0.00%
May - 2025	28443.90	0.00%
Apr - 2025	26917.80	0.00%
Mar - 2025	25726.55	0.00%
Feb - 2025	25879.98	0.00%
Jan - 2025	25324.33	0.00%

2024

24369.11

0.00

0.00%

Dec - 2024	24369.11	0.00	0.00%
Nov - 2024	24759.62	0.00	0.00%
Oct - 2024	24997.26	0.00	0.00%
Sep - 2024	23957.52	0.00	0.00%
Aug - 2024	24111.41	0.00	0.00%
Jul - 2024	23541.70	0.00	0.00%
Jun - 2024	22162.79	0.00	0.00%
May - 2024	20894.12	220143.46	9.49%
Apr - 2024	19732.62	206233.24	9.57%
Mar - 2024	17728.73	190550.14	9.30%
Feb - 2024	17500.04	188811.55	9.27%
Jan - 2024	16306.55	175828.77	9.27%

2023

15963.59

163046.59

9.79%

Dec - 2023	15963.59	163046.59	9.79%
Nov - 2023	16006.04	150349.95	10.65%
Oct - 2023	15356.15	140084.48	10.96%
Sep - 2023	14082.26	132772.96	10.61%
Aug - 2023	12496.05	121136.93	10.32%
Jul - 2023	11822.05	110310.26	10.72%
Jun - 2023	11221.38	99632.98	11.26%
May - 2023	10628.27	95152.62	11.17%
Apr - 2023	10188.57	88676.30	11.49%
Mar - 2023	9751.26	84006.20	11.61%
Feb - 2023	11272.76	96885.59	11.64%
Jan - 2023	11127.09	95812.23	11.61%

2022

10785.00

93423.08

11.54%

Dec - 2022	10785.00	93423.08	11.54%
Nov - 2022	10445.06	91792.70	11.38%
Oct - 2022	10890.63	96161.56	11.33%
Sep - 2022	10980.58	97757.48	11.23%
Aug - 2022	11506.91	101556.52	11.33%
Jul - 2022	12574.39	110174.57	11.41%
Jun - 2022	13399.83	116731.93	11.48%
May - 2022	14409.98	121729.35	11.84%
Apr - 2022	14076.75	120489.62	11.68%
Mar - 2022	13676.54	115483.87	11.84%
Feb - 2022	15119.93	123168.86	12.28%
Jan - 2022	14785.19	122435.02	12.08%

2021

14842.62

120868.32

12.28%

Dec - 2021	14842.62	120868.32	12.28%
Nov - 2021	15262.65	125983.91	12.11%
Oct - 2021	14821.33	124661.09	11.89%
Sep - 2021	15346.26	126595.56	12.12%
Aug - 2021	15752.72	129873.44	12.13%
Jul - 2021	15119.07	126757.93	11.93%
Jun - 2021	12398.22	110228.41	11.25%
May - 2021	11319.02	100905.65	11.22%
Apr - 2021	10787.78	94576.87	11.41%
Mar - 2021	10455.72	87461.35	11.95%
Feb - 2021	10461.58	84324.86	12.41%
Jan - 2021	9999.38	78411.33	12.75%

2020

9441.43

72070.33

13.10%

Dec - 2020	9441.43	72070.33	13.10%
Nov - 2020	9496.07	73486.89	12.92%
Oct - 2020	9673.38	73935.58	13.08%
Sep - 2020	9277.25	71924.70	12.90%
Aug - 2020	9769.42	73769.99	13.24%
Jul - 2020	10358.32	76211.81	13.59%
Jun - 2020	11212.84	80281.41	13.97%
May - 2020	10520.41	76458.68	13.76%
Apr - 2020	8426.66	63300.85	13.31%
Mar - 2020	7154.43	56906.07	12.57%
Feb - 2020	13591.15	93583.09	14.52%
Jan - 2020	13738.97	93291.46	14.73%

Tax Rate

If sold after 1 year from purchase date, long term capital gain tax will be applicable. Current tax rate is 12.5%, if your total long term capital gain exceeds 1.25 lakh. Any cess/surcharge is not included. If sold before 1 year from purchase date, short term capital gain tax will be applicable. Current tax rate is 20%. Any cess/surcharge is not included in the 20%.

Contact Details

ICICI Prudential Asset Management Co. Ltd.

One BKC, A-Wing, 13th Floor, Bandra Kurla Complex Mumbai 400051
Tel no.: 022-26525000
Fax no.: 022-26528100
Website.: www.icicipruamc.com

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