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Bandhan Multi-Asset Passive FOF

Q: What is the NAV of Bandhan Multi-Asset Passive FOF?

As of 05 Oct 2026, the NAV of Bandhan Multi-Asset Passive FOF is ₹41.03 per unit. NAV (net asset value) is the fund's per-unit price, published once each business day.

Q: What returns has Bandhan Multi-Asset Passive FOF delivered?

Bandhan Multi-Asset Passive FOF has returned +1.04% over 1 year, +8.48% per year over 3 years, +6.95% per year over 5 years and +8.84% per year since inception. Figures beyond one year are annualised (CAGR) and are computed from AMFI NAV history, so they may differ slightly from other portals.

Q: What is the expense ratio of Bandhan Multi-Asset Passive FOF?

Bandhan Multi-Asset Passive FOF charges an expense ratio of 0.55% per year. This annual fee is already deducted from the NAV, so the returns you see are net of it.

Q: What are the top holdings of Bandhan Multi-Asset Passive FOF?

Bandhan Multi-Asset Passive FOF's largest holdings are Bandhan Crisil Ibx 9:1 Sdl PS Gilt APR 32 DR GR (33.1%), BANDHAN NIFTY100 LOW VOLATILITY 30 INDEX FD Gr Dr (11.9%), Bandhan Nifty 200 Quality 30 Index Fund - DR Gr (10.2%), Bandhan Nifty IT Index Fund - Direct Plan - Growth (6.8%) and Bandhan Nifty Bank Index Fund - Dr Gr (3.6%). Holdings are disclosed monthly and change over time.

Q: How risky is Bandhan Multi-Asset Passive FOF?

Bandhan Multi-Asset Passive FOF is rated very high on SEBI's risk-o-meter, its trailing-3Y volatility (annualised) is 7.5% and its worst peak-to-trough fall in our sample was -18.1%. Higher volatility means the NAV swings more; the drawdown shows how far it has fallen from a peak historically.

Q: What does the Sharpe ratio of 0.26 mean?

The Sharpe ratio is return earned per unit of total risk, above a 6.5% risk-free rate. Bandhan Multi-Asset Passive FOF's 0.26 means it has rewarded its volatility with excess return. Higher is better.

Q: Who manages Bandhan Multi-Asset Passive FOF?

Bandhan Multi-Asset Passive FOF is managed by Viraj Kulkarni at Bandhan.

Q: How is Bandhan Multi-Asset Passive FOF taxed?

Bandhan Multi-Asset Passive FOF is a non-equity fund (a fund-of-funds, gold, international or balanced-hybrid scheme). Since FY 2025-26 it's no longer taxed like a pure-debt fund: gains on units held more than 2 years are long-term, taxed at 12.5% (no indexation, no ₹1.25 lakh exemption); units held 2 years or less are taxed at your income-tax slab rate.

Bandhan Mutual Fund · Best Domestic Fund of Funds

NAV

₹41.03

+0.37% 1D

as of 05 Oct 2026

This is the Regular plan of Bandhan Multi-Asset Passive FOF — bought through a distributor, whose commission is paid out of its expense ratio. Income is retained in the fund, so it shows up as NAV rather than as a payout.

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Performance

+0.68%absolute

52-week rangePrev NAV ₹40.88

Latest ₹41.03

Low ₹39.7832nd percentile of its 52-week rangeHigh ₹43.68

Scorecard

★★☆☆☆2/5 vs 75 of 152 FoF Domestic peers

Performance 60%
Risk 15%
Cost 10%
Downside 15%

How this is computed

Each verdict is computed from this fund's own metrics against its sub-category — the number behind it is shown, not a black-box rating. The stars weight the same ground 60/15/10/15 (performance/risk/cost/downside) across every fund in the peer group. Ranked within FoF Domestic (same plan and option). 75 of the 152 FoF Domestic funds in this cohort carry the full record the stars need, so they are the ones ranked against.

PerformanceBelow avg

3Y CAGR +8.48% · ranks 53 of 75 FoF Domestic funds

RiskLow

Volatility 7.5% vs 17.4% category avg

CostLow

0.6% expense vs 0.7% category avg

ConsistencyHigh

99% of rolling 3Y windows were positive

Strengths & concerns

Generated from this fund's own numbers against its sub-category — each point names the figure behind it.

Strengths

Less volatile than its FoF Domestic peers (7.5% vs 17.4%)
Low expense ratio (0.55%) vs the FoF Domestic average of 0.69%
Consistent — positive in 99% of rolling 3-year windows

Concerns

1-year return (+1.04%) trails the FoF Domestic average (+11.49%)
3-year return (+8.48%) trails the FoF Domestic average (+19.40%)
5-year return (+6.95%) trails the FoF Domestic average (+12.69%)
Weaker risk-adjusted returns — Sharpe 0.26 below the FoF Domestic average of 0.66

Key Metrics

Annual fee charged by the fund, already deducted from NAV

0.55%

Category 0.69%▼0.14%

Portfolio-weighted harmonic mean P/E across the fund's equity holdings

—

Category —

Excess return per unit of total volatility (rf = 6.5%)

0.26

Category 0.66▼0.40

Scheme Info

Definitions

Plan

Regular · Growth

Period before units can be redeemed — 3 years for ELSS, none for most open-ended funds

None

Exit Load

—

Statutory levy on every mutual-fund purchase since 1 Jul 2020 (SEBI / Govt of India) — the same for every scheme

0.005%

SIP Inv.

—

Smallest recurring SIP instalment the scheme accepts

—

Smallest one-time (lumpsum) investment the scheme accepts

—

Benchmark

—

Start of our NAV history for this plan. Direct plans begin 1 Jan 2013, so this is the plan's inception — not necessarily the scheme's original launch date.

15 Feb 2010

Period returns (<1Y, absolute — not annualized)

Definitions

Absolute return over the last 1 month (not annualized)

-3.46%

Absolute return over the last 3 months (not annualized)

-1.76%

Absolute return over the last 6 months (not annualized)

+1.74%

Absolute return since 1 Jan of this year (not annualized)

-1.35%

Annualized returns (≥1Y — CAGR)

Definitions

1-year point-to-point return, annualized (CAGR)

+1.04%

3-year annualized return (CAGR)

+8.48%

5-year annualized return (CAGR)

+6.95%

10-year annualized return (CAGR)

+7.79%

Annualized return (CAGR) since the first NAV we hold for this plan — the Inception date under Key metrics. AMFI's history starts in April 2006, so an older scheme is measured from there.

+8.84%

Advanced metrics — risk and benchmark ratios

Risk (trailing 3Y)

Definitions

Annualized standard deviation of daily returns

7.54%

Excess return per unit of total volatility (rf = 6.5%)

0.26

Excess return per unit of downside deviation — upside swings aren't penalized (rf = 6.5%)

0.35

Largest peak-to-trough decline over full history

-18.08%

Benchmark ratios (vs Nifty 500 TRI · 36 monthly returns)

Definitions

Jensen's alpha (annualized): return above what CAPM predicts for the fund's beta vs Nifty 500 TRI

0.15%

Sensitivity to Nifty 500 TRI moves; 1 = moves with the index

0.45

How much of the fund's movement Nifty 500 TRI explains

78.6%

Excess return per unit of beta (market risk)

4.12

Active return over the benchmark per unit of tracking error

-0.14

Annualized std dev of fund-minus-benchmark returns

9.46%

Fund's share of benchmark gains in up months (100 = matches index)

54.5%

Fund's share of benchmark losses in down months (lower is better)

37.3%

Computed vs the Nifty 500 TRI over the last 36 complete months — the closest match to this fund's mandate. TRI means dividends reinvested, as they are in the fund's own NAV; ₹ means a US index converted at each day's USD/INR, since the fund is priced in rupees. Needs ~3 years of history; a low R² means the fund tracks the index loosely.

Fund vs category average (FoF Domestic)

Period	Fund	Category avg.	Diff
1M abs	-3.46%	-3.40%	-0.06%
3M abs	-1.76%	-1.45%	-0.31%
6M abs	+1.74%	+4.76%	-3.02%
1Y CAGR	+1.04%	+11.49%	-10.45%
3Y CAGR	+8.48%	+19.40%	-10.92%
5Y CAGR	+6.95%	+12.69%	-5.74%

Category average across peers in FoF Domestic (151 of 152 carry a figure for at least one period), same plan and option, excluding this fund. Under-1-year figures are absolute; 1Y and beyond are annualised (CAGR).

Not sure what a figure means? The glossary explains every metric, and the methodology shows the formulas.

Category rank

Vs 152 peers in FoF Domestic

1Y return

+1.04%

Beats 26.3% · rank #85

3Y return

+8.48%

Beats 29.7% · rank #53

5Y return

+6.95%

Beats 25% · rank #40

Sharpe

0.26

Beats 25.7% · rank #56

Sortino

0.35

Beats 25.7% · rank #56

Backtest this fund

What a SIP or one-time investment would have grown to over this fund’s real NAV history.

Monthly investment (₹)

Period

Invested

₹6.00L

Current value

₹7.12L

Absolute

+18.69%

XIRR

+7.01%

Value vs. invested

ValueInvested

60 monthly installments of ₹10,000 into Bandhan Multi-Asset Passive FOF, valued at the latest NAV. XIRR annualizes for each installment’s timing.

Calendar-year returns

What the fund actually returned in each year, not the smoothed average.

Year	Fund	Nifty 500 TRI	Diff
2026part	-1.35%	-7.18%	+5.83%
2025	+6.27%	+7.94%	-1.67%
2024	+13.68%	+16.43%	-2.75%
2023	+17.09%	+27.43%	-10.34%
2022	-0.25%	+4.34%	-4.59%
2021	+15.17%	+31.59%	-16.42%
2020	+9.27%	+18.33%	-9.06%
2019	+6.69%	+8.95%	-2.26%
2018	+0.86%	-2.33%	+3.19%
2017	+14.98%	+37.35%	-22.37%

January–December, from this fund's NAV history. Absolute return, not annualised. “part” marks a year the fund didn't run end to end — its first year, the current year so far, or one it stopped reporting in; those years show no benchmark comparison.

Recent changes

Expense-ratio, fund-manager, exit-load and minimum-investment changes we've picked up in the last 30 days.

Expense ratio up: 0.34% → 0.55%
10 Sep 2026

History points

4,024

Expense ratio

0.55%

AUM

₹20.31Cr

Taxation

Taxed as non-equity

This is a non-equity fund — a fund-of-funds, gold/silver, international or balanced-hybrid scheme. It isn't equity-oriented, but since FY 2025-26 it's no longer taxed like a pure-debt fund either: gains held over 2 years get the 12.5% long-term rate; shorter holdings are taxed at your income-tax slab rate.

Short-term

30%

Held under 2 years

Added to your income at your slab rate

Long-term (LTCG)

12.5%

Held 2 years or more

No indexation, no ₹1.25 L exemption

Your income-tax slab

Sets the short-term (slab-rate) figure above.

Applies to capital gains on redemption. Excludes IDCW/dividend tax, STT, surcharge and cess, and pre-2018 equity grandfathering. For research only — consult a tax advisor before filing.

Peer comparison · FoF Domestic

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Mirae Asset S&P 500 Top 50 ETF Fund of Fund Mirae Asset · Regular · Growth	★★★★★	+47.60%	+45.91%	+29.33%	—	0.42%	—
Axis Silver Fund of Fund Axis · Regular · Growth	★★★★☆	+50.74%	+45.30%	—	—	0.65%	₹1,209Cr
Nippon India Silver ETF FOF Nippon India · Regular · Growth	★★★★★	+49.37%	+45.20%	—	—	0.49%	₹4,544Cr
HDFC Silver ETF Fund of Fund HDFC · Regular · Growth	★★★★☆	+49.73%	+44.95%	—	—	0.55%	₹4,593Cr

Asset allocation

As on 31 Aug 2026 · AMC disclosure

Other69.79%
Cash & Equivalents30.21%

which companies this fund invests in

As on 31 Aug 2026 · AMC disclosure

BANDHAN NIFTY100 LOW VOLATILITY 30 INDEX FD Gr Dr

11.94%

Bandhan Nifty 200 Quality 30 Index Fund - DR Gr

10.15%

Bandhan Nifty IT Index Fund - Direct Plan - Growth

6.79%

Bandhan Nifty Bank Index Fund - Dr Gr

3.63%

Bandhan Nifty Midcap 150 Index Fund-Direct Pl-Grth

2.43%

Bandhan Nifty Next 50 Ind Fund Direct Pl Growth

1.73%

Worst falls, and the wait to get back

How far this fund has dropped from a high, and how long it took to reclaim it.

-18.1%13 Feb 2020 → 23 Mar 2020
Fell over 39 days, back to the old high on 08 Oct 2020 — 7 months under water after the low.
-10.3%17 Jan 2022 → 20 Jun 2022
Fell over 5 months, back to the old high on 04 May 2023 — 10 months under water after the low.
-8.9%29 Jan 2026 → 23 Mar 2026
Still below that high — 2 months down, and no recovery yet.

Measured on this fund’s own NAV history, peak to trough to the day it regained the peak. Falls shallower than 5% are left out. A recovery date is when the NAV got back, not when any particular investor did — that depends on when they bought.

AMC Profile

Bandhan Mutual Fund is the former IDFC Mutual Fund, bought in 2022 by a consortium of Bandhan Financial Holdings, ChrysCapital and GIC and renamed the following year. It carries a long-established debt franchise alongside its equity and index schemes.

Launched

19 Dec 1999

Total AUM

₹2,04,046Cr+4.5% QoQ

Avg AUM · April - June 2026

Website

bandhanmutual.com

Fund Managers

VKViraj KulkarniStart date not disclosed

Role

Vice President B.Tech. – Equity Fund Management

Education

CFA, (Finance), B.Tech. (Electronics) Fund

Experience

He is associated with Bandhan PGDM AMC since September 2015 and is the dedicated fund manager for foreign securities since Fund - Equity portion, March 2016. He also undertakes equity research. Prior experience: Franklin Templeton Asset Management (India) Pvt. Ltd. as Management Trainee (May 2014 – September 2015). Goldman Sachs Services India as an Analyst for Wealth Management Technology (June 2010 – May 2012). (Total experience - 12 years)

Funds managed (7)

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Fund managers

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Returns and risk are computed from NAV history and may differ slightly from other portals due to methodology (rolling vs point-to-point, dividend treatment). For research only — not investment advice.

Frequently asked questions

What is the NAV of Bandhan Multi-Asset Passive FOF?

As of 05 Oct 2026, the NAV of Bandhan Multi-Asset Passive FOF is ₹41.03 per unit. NAV (net asset value) is the fund's per-unit price, published once each business day.

What returns has Bandhan Multi-Asset Passive FOF delivered?

Bandhan Multi-Asset Passive FOF has returned +1.04% over 1 year, +8.48% per year over 3 years, +6.95% per year over 5 years and +8.84% per year since inception. Figures beyond one year are annualised (CAGR) and are computed from AMFI NAV history, so they may differ slightly from other portals.

What is the expense ratio of Bandhan Multi-Asset Passive FOF?

Bandhan Multi-Asset Passive FOF charges an expense ratio of 0.55% per year. This annual fee is already deducted from the NAV, so the returns you see are net of it.

What are the top holdings of Bandhan Multi-Asset Passive FOF?

Bandhan Multi-Asset Passive FOF's largest holdings are Bandhan Crisil Ibx 9:1 Sdl PS Gilt APR 32 DR GR (33.1%), BANDHAN NIFTY100 LOW VOLATILITY 30 INDEX FD Gr Dr (11.9%), Bandhan Nifty 200 Quality 30 Index Fund - DR Gr (10.2%), Bandhan Nifty IT Index Fund - Direct Plan - Growth (6.8%) and Bandhan Nifty Bank Index Fund - Dr Gr (3.6%). Holdings are disclosed monthly and change over time.

How risky is Bandhan Multi-Asset Passive FOF?

Bandhan Multi-Asset Passive FOF is rated very high on SEBI's risk-o-meter, its trailing-3Y volatility (annualised) is 7.5% and its worst peak-to-trough fall in our sample was -18.1%. Higher volatility means the NAV swings more; the drawdown shows how far it has fallen from a peak historically.

What does the Sharpe ratio of 0.26 mean?

The Sharpe ratio is return earned per unit of total risk, above a 6.5% risk-free rate. Bandhan Multi-Asset Passive FOF's 0.26 means it has rewarded its volatility with excess return. Higher is better.

Who manages Bandhan Multi-Asset Passive FOF?

Bandhan Multi-Asset Passive FOF is managed by Viraj Kulkarni at Bandhan.

How is Bandhan Multi-Asset Passive FOF taxed?

Bandhan Multi-Asset Passive FOF is a non-equity fund (a fund-of-funds, gold, international or balanced-hybrid scheme). Since FY 2025-26 it's no longer taxed like a pure-debt fund: gains on units held more than 2 years are long-term, taxed at 12.5% (no indexation, no ₹1.25 lakh exemption); units held 2 years or less are taxed at your income-tax slab rate.