Sundaram Balanced Advantage Fund - Direct Plan - IDCW - Monthly

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 : Dynamic Asset Allocation or Balanced Advantage

Fund House : PRINCIPAL Mutual Fund

NAV

This number shows latest NAV (Net Asset Value) and change in the NAV from previous day. NAV is nothing but the unit price for the fund. You will be allocated number of units based on this price. NAV is declared once each day generally at the end of the day. Once you invest in mutual funds, your money is further invested in stocks and bonds by mutual fund managers. Mutual Fund NAV is the per unit latest value of all such stocks/bonds held in the portfolio

: ₹ 19.2139 0.49%
(as on 16th October, 2025)

Crisil Rating

Not Rated

Rank not available for the fund

Fund Size

: ₹ 1678.45 Cr

(0.56% of Investment in Category)

Expense Ratio

: 0.6%

(0.73% Category average)

Risk-O-Meter

High Risk

Dynamic Asset Allocation or Balanced Advantage :Dynamic Asset Allocation or Balanced Advantage : The fund has 73.44% investment in domestic equities of which 41.32% is in Large Cap stocks, 9.03% is in Mid Cap stocks, 3.38% in Small Cap stocks.The fund has 20.66% investment in Debt, of which 12.87% in Government securities, 7.26% is in Low Risk securities.

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Returns (NAV as on 15th October, 2025)

Period Invested for	₹10000 Invested on	Latest Value	Absolute Returns	Annualised Returns	Category Avg	Rank within Category
1 Week	08-Oct-25	10082.20	0.82%	-	0.85%	16/34
1 Month	15-Sep-25	10115.90	1.16%	-	0.77%	6/34
3 Month	15-Jul-25	10090.20	0.90%	-	0.78%	16/34
6 Month	15-Apr-25	10697.20	6.97%	-	7.35%	21/34
YTD	01-Jan-25	10487.60	4.88%	-	5.05%	18/33
1 Year	15-Oct-24	10240.20	2.40%	2.40%	2.81%	20/33
2 Year	13-Oct-23	12768.70	27.69%	12.94%	13.85%	19/28
3 Year	14-Oct-22	14317.20	43.17%	12.68%	14.04%	17/25
5 Year	15-Oct-20	16541.60	65.42%	10.58%	13.90%	12/18
10 Year	15-Oct-15	19192.70	91.93%	6.73%	11.03%	8/10
Since Inception	02-Jan-13	28286.50	182.87%	8.47%	11.51%	22/34

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SIP Returns (NAV as on 15th October, 2025)

Period Invested for	₹1000 SIP Started on	Investments	Latest Value	Absolute Returns	Annualised Returns
1 Year	15-Oct-24	12000	12561.97	4.68 %	8.8 %
2 Year	13-Oct-23	24000	26342.52	9.76 %	9.23 %
3 Year	14-Oct-22	36000	42746.71	18.74 %	11.47 %
5 Year	15-Oct-20	60000	79220.83	32.03 %	11.05 %
10 Year	15-Oct-15	120000	181542.5	51.29 %	8.02 %

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Tax Treatment

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%.

Portfolio (Updated on 30th Sep,2025)

Portfolio Turnover Ratio : 74.00% | Category average turnover ratio is 324.99%

Fund manager updated portfolio less frequently than peers in last 1 year. (I.e. fund manager held stocks/bonds in the portfolio for longer duration than peers)

Equity Holding : 73.44% | F&O Holdings : 0.00%| Foreign Equity Holdings : 0.00%| Total : 73.44%

No of Stocks : 61 (Category Avg - 74.50) | Large Cap Investments : 41.32%| Mid Cap Investments : 9.03% | Small Cap Investments : 3.38% | Other : 19.7%

Top 10 Stocks in Portfolio

How to read this table?

Stock Invested in	Sector	Value(Mn)	% of Total Holdings	1M Change	1Y Highest Holding	1Y Lowest Holding	Quantity	1M Change in Qty
ICICI Bank Ltd.	Private sector bank	1039.2	6.19%	0.18%	6.19% (Sep 2025)	4.76% (Dec 2024)	7.71 L	57.40 k
HDFC Bank Ltd.	Private sector bank	964.1	5.74%	-0.07%	7.42% (Oct 2024)	4.75% (May 2025)	10.14 L	0.00
Reliance Industries Ltd.	Refineries & marketing	755.7	4.50%	-0.46%	6.08% (Mar 2025)	4.5% (Sep 2025)	5.54 L	-0.53 L
Bharti Airtel Ltd.	Telecom - cellular & fixed line services	733.8	4.37%	-0.08%	4.45% (Aug 2025)	2.63% (Oct 2024)	3.91 L	0.00
Kotak Mahindra Bank Ltd.	Private sector bank	605.5	3.61%	0.01%	3.61% (Sep 2025)	2.25% (Oct 2024)	3.04 L	0.00
Larsen & Toubro Ltd.	Civil construction	358.6	2.14%	0.01%	2.24% (Nov 2024)	1.4% (Jul 2025)	98.02 k	0.00
State Bank Of India	Public sector bank	344.2	2.05%	0.14%	2.29% (May 2025)	1.61% (Oct 2024)	3.94 L	0.00
Bajaj Finance Ltd.	Non banking financial company (nbfc)	304.1	1.81%	0.20%	1.81% (Sep 2025)	0.74% (Nov 2024)	3.04 L	0.00
Eternal Ltd.	E-retail/ e-commerce	290.5	1.73%	0.41%	1.73% (Sep 2025)	0% (Oct 2024)	8.92 L	1.94 L
Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd.	Passenger cars & utility vehicles	285.7	1.70%	-0.01%	1.71% (Aug 2025)	1.31% (Oct 2024)	83.38 k	-5.20 k

- indicates change in weight in the portfolio. # indicates a new entry.

Detailed Portfolio Analysis

No of Debt Holding 18 (Category Avg - 29.21) | Modified Duration 4.16 Years (Category Avg - 3.13)| Yield to Maturity 6.63% (Category Avg - 6.63%)

Type of Holdings

Security Type	% Weight	Category Average
GOI	12.87%	8.68%
CD	0.00%	0.43%
T-Bills	0.00%	1.16%
CP	0.00%	0.30%
NCD & Bonds	7.78%	11.10%
PTC	0.00%	0.31%

Investment / Portfolio Grades

Security Type	% Weight	Category Average
Government Backed	12.87%	9.84%
Low Risk	7.26%	11.16%
Moderate Risk	0.00%	0.00%
High Risk	0.00%	0.00%
Very High Risk	0.00%	0.00%
Others	0.52%	0.23%

Detailed Portfolio Analysis

Name	Type of Instrument	Weight (%)
Embassy Office Parks Reit	InvITs	2.70%
TREPS	TREPS	1.62%
Margin	Margin	0.91%
Powergrid Infrastructure Investment Trust	InvITs	0.57%
Net Receivables	Net Receivables	0.10%

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Risk Ratios

Ratios calculated on daily returns for last 3 years (Updated as on 30th September, 2025)

Standard Deviation
Standard Deviation value gives an idea about how volatile fund returns has been in the past 3 years. Lower value indicates more predictable performance. So if you are comparing 2 funds (lets say Fund A and Fund B) in the same category. If Fund A and Fund B has given 9% returns in last 3 years, but Fund A standard deviation value is lower than Fund B. So you can say that there is a higher chance that Fund A will continue giving similar returns in future also whereas Fund B returns may vary.

Low volatility

6.39vs6.94

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Beta
Beta value gives idea about how volatile fund performance has been compared to similar funds in the market. Lower beta implies the fund gives more predictable performance compared to similar funds in the market. So if you are comparing 2 funds (lets say Fund A and Fund B) in the same category. If Fund A and Fund B has given 9% returns in last 3 years, but Fund A beta value is lower than Fund B. So you can say that there is a higher chance that Fund A will continue giving similar returns in future also whereas Fund B returns may vary.

Low volatility

0.83vs0.87

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Sharpe Ratio
Sharpe ratio indicates how much risk was taken to generate the returns. Higher the value means, fund has been able to give better returns for the amount of risk taken. It is calculated by subtracting the risk-free return, defined as an Indian Government Bond, from the fund's returns, and then dividing by the standard deviation of returns. For example, if fund A and fund B both have 3-year returns of 15%, and fund A has a Sharpe ratio of 1.40 and fund B has a Sharpe ratio of 1.25, you can chooses fund A, as it has given higher risk-adjusted return.

Poor risk adjusted returns

0.72vs0.92

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Treynor's Ratio
Treynor's ratio indicates how much excess return was generated for each unit of risk taken. Higher the value means, fund has been able to give better returns for the amount of risk taken. It is calculated by subtracting the risk-free return, defined as an Indian Government Bond, from the fund's returns, and then dividing by the beta of returns. For example, if fund A and fund B both have 3-year returns of 15%, and fund A has a Treynor's ratio of 1.40 and fund B has a Treynor's ratio of 1.25, then you can chooses fund A, as it has given higher risk-adjusted return.

Poor risk adjusted returns

0.05vs0.07

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Jensen's Alpha
Alpha indicates how fund generated additional returns compared to a benchmark. Let's say if a fund A benchmarks its returns with Nifty50 returns then alpha equal to 1.0 indicates the fund has beaten the nifty returns by 1%, so the higher the alpha, the better.

Poor risk adjusted returns

-0.18vs1.4

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Alternative Funds (Category Peers)

Scheme Name	Crisil Rank	Asset Size (Cr)	1M	3M	6M	1Y	3Y
ICICI Prudential Balanced Advantage Fund - Direct Plan - Growth	NA	66750.51	0.90	3.11	9.08	8.32	14.56
WhiteOak Capital Balanced Advantage Fund - Direct Plan - Growth	NA	1897.02	1.12	1.91	8.67	7.48	0.00
UTI Balanced Advantage Fund - Direct Plan - Growth	NA	3067.28	0.99	1.74	7.03	6.49	0.00
Aditya Birla Sun Life Balanced Advantage Fund - Direct Plan - Growth	NA	8370.71	0.79	1.12	8.51	6.13	14.95
DSP Dynamic Asset Allocation Fund - Direct Plan - Growth	NA	3532.22	0.53	1.27	5.54	5.99	13.51
Mirae Asset Balanced Advantage Fund - Direct Plan - Growth	NA	1933.78	0.92	0.95	7.42	5.97	14.69
Parag Parikh Dynamic Asset Allocation Fund - Direct Plan - Growth	NA	2605.81	0.61	0.44	2.54	5.75	0.00
Franklin India Balanced Advantage Fund - Direct Plan - Growth	NA	2779.25	0.74	1.11	6.41	5.71	15.54
SBI Balanced Advantage Fund - Direct Plan - Growth	NA	37457.25	1.09	0.77	6.63	5.67	15.43
Helios Balanced Advantage Fund - Direct Plan - Growth	NA	301.30	2.50	2.68	8.58	5.59	0.00

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Scheme Name	Crisil Rank	Asset Size (Cr)	1M	3M	6M	1Y	3Y
Sundaram Mid Cap Fund - Direct Plan - Growth	4	12585.11	0.56	1.10	14.40	-0.22	24.94
Sundaram Liquid Fund - Direct Plan - Growth	3	7481.60	0.49	1.44	3.04	6.88	7.11
Sundaram Aggressive Hybrid Fund - Direct Plan - Growth	3	6944.38	1.19	0.62	7.55	1.48	14.73
Sundaram Large and Mid Cap Fund - Direct Plan - Growth	2	6740.02	1.57	1.60	11.47	-0.13	18.34
Sundaram Services Fund - Direct Plan - Growth	NA	4425.86	0.34	-0.74	11.93	4.90	20.17
Sundaram Small Cap Fund - Direct Plan - Growth	3	3340.55	-0.28	-1.93	14.30	-3.13	22.04
Sundaram Large Cap Fund - Direct Plan - Growth	1	3279.53	0.76	-0.16	7.26	-0.89	14.62
Sundaram Multi Cap Fund - Direct Plan - Growth	2	2828.73	0.59	0.55	12.33	0.87	19.21
Sundaram Multi Asset Allocation Fund - Direct Plan - Growth	NA	2798.62	4.30	6.36	13.66	14.29	0.00
Sundaram Ultra Short Duration Fund - Direct Plan - Growth	3	2111.91	0.57	1.50	3.43	7.55	7.53