Aditya Birla Sun Life Small Cap Fund - Growth - Direct Plan is an equity scheme managed by Aditya Birla Sun Life Mutual Fund. Over rolling three-year windows since inception, investors earned a median compounded return of 20.07%, with the bottom and top quartiles at 18.25% and 24.64% respectively. It has ranked in the top half of its category for 0 of the last 2 reported years. The total expense ratio is 0.93% on assets of ₹5,254Cr. The fund is currently managed by Mr. Dhaval Joshi, appointed within the last year.
Lower is better.
This scheme classifies as Large-Value on the 3x3 equity style box, with 74% of its portfolio classified as of 2026-05-29.
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| Window | Min | P25 | Median |
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Point-in-time CAGRs cherry-pick a single start date. The chart below shows the distribution of every possible rolling start over the fund's history, so you see the range of investor outcomes — not just one date's number.
Backtested SIP outcomes across both rolling-window scenarios and named historical stress events (COVID, Election uncertainty, Russia/Ukraine, etc.), plus per-manager alpha during their tenure on this scheme.
Same fund, monthly SIPs over rolling 1/3/5-year windows.
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In-house derivations using 3-year daily NAV vs benchmark. See methodology.
| Weight |
|---|
| NAVIN FLUORINE INTERNATIONAL LTD | Basic Materials | 2.99% |
| TD POWER SYSTEMS LIMITED | Industrials | 2.88% |
| Sai Life Sciences Limited | Healthcare | 2.62% |
| CCL PRODUCTS (INDIA) LIMITED | Consumer Defensive | 2.29% |
| PNB HOUSING FINANCE LTD | Financial Services | 2.15% |
| RADICO KHAITAN LIMITED | Consumer Defensive | 2.13% |
| ARVIND LIMITED | Consumer Cyclical | 2.00% |
| UJJIVAN SMALL FINANCE BANK LIMITED | Financial Services | 1.85% |
| Shaily Engineering Plastics Limited | Consumer Cyclical | 1.74% |
| THE RAMCO CEMENTS LIMITED | Basic Materials | 1.68% |
| MANAPPURAM FINANCE LIMITED | Financial Services | 1.64% |
| CRAFTSMAN AUTOMATION LIMITED | Consumer Cyclical | 1.61% |
| CESC LIMITED | Utilities | 1.57% |
| SOBHA LIMITED | Real Estate | 1.55% |
| Krishna Institute Of Medical Sciences Limited | Healthcare | 1.49% |
| GRANULES INDIA LIMITED | Healthcare | 1.47% |
| BIKAJI FOODS INTERNATIONAL LIMITED | Consumer Defensive | 1.46% |
| Manorama Industries Limited | Consumer Defensive | 1.44% |
| S.J.S. ENTERPRISES LIMITED | Consumer Cyclical | 1.44% |
| FORTIS HEALTHCARE LIMITED. | Healthcare | 1.40% |
| RBL BANK LIMITED | Financial Services | 1.38% |
| MINDA CORPORATION LIMITED | Consumer Cyclical | 1.38% |
| VOLTAMP TRANSFORMERS LIMITED | Industrials | 1.37% |
| PG Electroplast Limited | Technology | 1.31% |
| APAR INDUSTRIES LIMITED | Industrials | 1.31% |
| Sector | Holdings | Weight |
|---|---|---|
| Financial Services | 13 | 20.97% |
| Capital Goods | — | 14.21% |
| Healthcare | 10 | 12.63% |
| Fast Moving Consumer Goods | — | 8.51% |
| Automobile and Auto Components | — | 6.55% |
| Consumer Durables | — | 4.90% |
| Chemicals | — | 3.60% |
| Textiles | — | 3.31% |
| Information Technology | — | 3.14% |
| Consumer Services | — | 3.06% |
Active bets vs the average Equity fund. Biggest deviations shown first.
Accent bar = fund's actual sector weight. Vertical black tick = category average for the same sector. Green overlay = overweight, dashed red = underweight. The biggest active bets show first.
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| 1Y | -10.40% | -0.21% | 19.50% | 41.65% | 115.88% | 74.2% |
| 3Y | 10.95% | 18.25% | 20.07% | 24.64% | 37.10% | 100.0% |
| 5Y | 13.41% | 16.58% | 20.98% | 25.20% | 31.31% | 100.0% |
Each cell is one year. Q1 = top quartile within the AMFI category for that period. Cell label is the last two digits of the year.
Top-10 weight 22.3% means the portfolio is broad — even the top names don't dominate. Effective-N is the inverse Herfindahl index — a measure of "how many positions effectively drive the fund" after weighting. Category: Equity.
Compounding maths on a notional ₹10 lakh lumpsum at 12% gross annual return. Green bar is what you'd have without the fee; red overlay is the fee drag. Fee is constant in this scenario — actual outcomes depend on real returns and any future TER changes.
What an investor SIPping into this fund actually got during named market shocks.
Each row is a back-tested SIP — monthly contribution over the regime's duration, no fees adjustment beyond NAV-baked TER. XIRR is the annualised IRR of those cashflows; Abs return is the absolute cash-on-cash; Max DD is the deepest drawdown experienced mid-investment. Past performance is not indicative of future results.
Alpha is the annualised excess return vs benchmark over the manager's tenure on this scheme. Beat-benchmark = total return beat the index over the same window.