Axis Nifty Smallcap 50 Index Fund - Direct Plan - Growth Option is an index scheme managed by Axis Mutual Fund. Over rolling three-year windows since inception, investors earned a median compounded return of 25.03%, with the bottom and top quartiles at 23.58% and 26.24% respectively. It has ranked in the top half of its category for 1 of the last 1 reported years. The total expense ratio is 0.27% on assets of ₹619Cr. The fund is currently managed by Mr. Nandik Malik, appointed within the last year.
Lower is better.
This scheme classifies as Large-Blend on the 3x3 equity style box, with 76% 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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ETF-specific data. Tracking error is the standard-deviation of (ETF return − index return) over the trailing year.
In-house derivations using 3-year daily NAV vs benchmark. See methodology.
| Weight |
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| SONA BLW PRECISION FORGINGS LIMITED | Consumer Cyclical | 3.74% |
| DELHIVERY LIMITED | Industrials | 3.59% |
| NAVIN FLUORINE INTERNATIONAL LTD | Basic Materials | 3.45% |
| CENTRAL DEPOSITORY SERVICES (INDIA) LIMITED | Financial Services | 3.12% |
| RBL BANK LIMITED | Financial Services | 2.79% |
| PNB HOUSING FINANCE LTD | Financial Services | 2.70% |
| CITY UNION BANK LIMITED | Financial Services | 2.68% |
| BANDHAN BANK LIMITED | Financial Services | 2.45% |
| ASTER DM HEALTHCARE LIMITED | Healthcare | 2.44% |
| CROMPTON GREAVES CONSUMER ELECTRICALS LIMITED | Consumer Cyclical | 2.41% |
| HINDUSTAN COPPER LIMITED | Basic Materials | 2.41% |
| AMBER ENTERPRISES INDIA LIMITED | Consumer Cyclical | 2.40% |
| WELSPUN CORP LIMITED | Basic Materials | 2.28% |
| MANAPPURAM FINANCE LIMITED | Financial Services | 2.22% |
| CHOLAMANDALAM FINANCIAL HOLDINGS LIMITED | Financial Services | 2.12% |
| ANAND RATHI WEALTH LIMITED | Financial Services | 2.11% |
| POONAWALLA FINCORP LIMITED | Financial Services | 2.04% |
| Sai Life Sciences Limited | Healthcare | 2.02% |
| HIMADRI SPECIALITY CHEMICAL LIMITED | Basic Materials | 1.96% |
| GLAND PHARMA LIMITED | Healthcare | 1.92% |
| NEULAND LABORATORIES LIMITED | Healthcare | 1.78% |
| REDINGTON LIMITED | Industrials | 1.76% |
| KAYNES TECHNOLOGY INDIA LIMITED | Technology | 1.74% |
| TATA CHEMICALS LIMITED | Basic Materials | 1.74% |
| NARAYANA HRUDAYALAYA LIMITED | Healthcare | 1.68% |
| Sector | Holdings | Weight |
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| Financial Services | 11 | 38.92% |
| Healthcare | 9 | 17.92% |
| Chemicals | — | 7.15% |
| Consumer Durables | — | 5.99% |
| Capital Goods | — | 5.36% |
| Services | — | 5.35% |
| Automobile and Auto Components | — | 5.21% |
| Oil, Gas & Consumable Fuels | — | 4.04% |
| Power | — | 2.77% |
| Information Technology | — | 2.61% |
Active bets vs the average Index 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.
How crowded into the same stocks is this fund vs the largest fund in its category?
Category leader = highest-AUM scheme in the same SEBI category. A high overlap-of-weight number means the fund is concentrated into the same names as the leader (crowded); a low one means it's genuinely differentiated.
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| 1Y | -17.32% | 2.03% | 16.46% | 53.05% | 79.85% | 79.8% |
| 3Y | 13.07% | 23.58% | 25.03% | 26.24% | 33.32% | 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 29.4% 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: Index.
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.
Does the fund get worse as it gets bigger? Each dot is one historical manager-tenure: AUM at tenure-end vs alpha delivered during that tenure.
Correlation is too weak to confirm or rule out capacity-driven alpha decay. Re-evaluate as more manager-tenure data accumulates.
Each dot is one manager-tenure: X = AUM at tenure end, Y = alpha during that tenure. Connecting line in chronological order. Pearson r measures the linear relationship between AUM and alpha across the historical record. n = 2 data points.