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Axis Children's Fund

Q: What is the NAV of Axis Children's Fund?

As of 05 Oct 2026, the NAV of Axis Children's Fund is ₹23.38 per unit. NAV (net asset value) is the fund's per-unit price, published once each business day.

Q: What returns has Axis Children's Fund delivered?

Axis Children's Fund has returned -10.04% over 1 year, +3.81% per year over 3 years, +2.54% per year over 5 years and +8.16% 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 Axis Children's Fund?

Axis Children's Fund charges an expense ratio of 2.40% 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 Axis Children's Fund?

Axis Children's Fund's largest holdings are 7.1% Government of India (08/04/2034) (8.4%), ICICI Bank Limited (5.0%), Reliance Industries Limited (4.6%), HDFC Bank Limited (4.2%) and 7.18% Government of India (14/08/2033) (3.9%). Holdings are disclosed monthly and change over time.

Q: How risky is Axis Children's Fund?

Axis Children's Fund is rated high on SEBI's risk-o-meter, its trailing-3Y volatility (annualised) is 11.0% and its worst peak-to-trough fall in our sample was -27.2%. 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 -0.24 mean?

The Sharpe ratio is return earned per unit of total risk, above a 6.5% risk-free rate. Axis Children's Fund's -0.24 means it has not compensated investors for its volatility over the window. Higher is better.

Q: What is the benchmark of Axis Children's Fund?

Axis Children's Fund is benchmarked against the NIFTY 50 Hybrid Composite Debt 65:35 Index. Its alpha and beta on this page are measured against that index.

Q: Who manages Axis Children's Fund?

Axis Children's Fund is managed by Krishnaa Narayan, Devang Shah, Hardik Shah and Jayesh Sundar at Axis.

Q: How is Axis Children's Fund taxed?

Axis Children's Fund is an equity-oriented fund, so its capital gains get concessional rates: short-term gains (units held under 1 year) are taxed at 20%, and long-term gains (held 1 year or more) at 12.5% above a ₹1.25 lakh per-year exemption. These rates apply on redemption and don't add to your income-tax slab.

Axis Mutual Fund

NAV

₹23.38

+0.37% 1D

as of 05 Oct 2026

This is the Regular plan of Axis Children's Fund — bought through a distributor, whose commission is paid out of its expense ratio. Income is distributed, which is why this NAV sits below the growth plan of the same fund.

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This is the IDCW (dividend) option — it pays its earnings out as dividends rather than reinvesting them, so every payout steps the NAV down and the return figures below leave those payouts out. Your actual return was higher by whatever was distributed. That’s expected for a payout plan, not missing data.

View the Growth plan for compounded returns (+6.66% 3Y CAGR)

Performance

-10.62%absolute

52-week rangePrev NAV ₹23.29

Latest ₹23.38

Low ₹23.292nd percentile of its 52-week rangeHigh ₹26.82

Scorecard

Not rated

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. Not rated — too few comparable Solution Oriented funds (same plan and option) to rank against yet.

Performance—

Not enough Childrens' Fund peers to rank yet

Risk—

Volatility 11.0% (no category average yet)

Cost—

2.4% expense (no category average yet)

ConsistencyHigh

100% 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

Consistent — positive in 100% of rolling 3-year windows

Concerns

No significant concerns identified.

Key Metrics

Annual fee charged by the fund, already deducted from NAV

2.40%

Category —

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

23.06

Category —

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

-0.24

Category —

Scheme Info

Definitions

Plan

Regular · IDCW

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

5 yrs

Under Compulsory Lock-in: No exit load post lock-in period. Under No Lock-in: An Exit Load of 3% is payable if Units are redeemed / switched-out upto 1 year from the date of allotment, An Exit Load of 2% is payable if Units are redeemed / switched-out after 1 year and upto 2 years from the date of allotment An Exit Load of 1% is payable if Units are redeemed / switched-out after 2 years and upto 3 years from the date of allotment Nil if Units are redeemed / switched-out after 3 years from the date of allotment.

Up to 3.00%

tiered — see the full terms

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

0.005%

SIP Inv.

Allowed

Smallest recurring SIP instalment the scheme accepts

₹1,000

Smallest one-time (lumpsum) investment the scheme accepts

₹5,000

NIFTY 50 Hybrid Composite Debt 65:35 Index

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.

14 Dec 2015

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

Definitions

Absolute return over the last 1 month (not annualized)

-4.07%

Absolute return over the last 3 months (not annualized)

-10.74%

Absolute return over the last 6 months (not annualized)

-3.64%

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

-11.93%

Annualized returns (≥1Y — CAGR)

Definitions

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

-10.04%

3-year annualized return (CAGR)

+3.81%

5-year annualized return (CAGR)

+2.54%

10-year annualized return (CAGR)

+7.82%

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.

+8.16%

Advanced metrics — risk and benchmark ratios

Risk (trailing 3Y)

Definitions

Annualized standard deviation of daily returns

11.02%

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

-0.24

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

-0.31

Largest peak-to-trough decline over full history

-27.20%

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

-4.60%

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

0.68

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

81.6%

Excess return per unit of beta (market risk)

-3.78

Active return over the benchmark per unit of tracking error

-0.80

Annualized std dev of fund-minus-benchmark returns

7.19%

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

62.5%

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

75.4%

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 (Childrens' Fund)

Period	Fund	Category avg.	Diff
1M abs	-4.07%	—	—
3M abs	-10.74%	—	—
6M abs	-3.64%	—	—
1Y CAGR	-10.04%	—	—
3Y CAGR	+3.81%	—	—
5Y CAGR	+2.54%	—	—

Category average across peers in Childrens' Fund, 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.

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

₹6.25L

Absolute

+4.23%

XIRR

+1.69%

Value vs. invested

ValueInvested

60 monthly installments of ₹10,000 into Axis Children's Fund, 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	-11.93%	-6.20%	-5.73%
2025	+5.16%	+7.94%	-2.78%
2024	+14.39%	+16.43%	-2.04%
2023	+13.25%	+27.43%	-14.18%
2022	-7.32%	+4.34%	-11.66%
2021	+26.66%	+31.59%	-4.93%
2020	+15.50%	+18.33%	-2.83%
2019	+13.10%	+8.95%	+4.15%
2018	+0.20%	-2.33%	+2.53%
2017	+22.46%	+37.35%	-14.89%

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.

History points

2,671

Expense ratio

2.40%

Exit load

Portfolio, AUM & scheme details shown from another plan of this scheme (same underlying portfolio).

P/E ratio

23.1

P/B ratio

4.8

Avg market cap

₹4,61,863Cr

P/E & P/B are portfolio-weighted harmonic means across 87 of 95 equity holdings (68% of the portfolio); loss-making companies are excluded.

Taxation

Taxed as equity

This is an equity-oriented fund (≥65% in Indian equities), so gains get the concessional capital-gains rates below — they do not add to your income-tax slab.

Short-term (STCG)

20%

Held under 1 year

Flat, on the whole gain

Long-term (LTCG)

12.5%

Held 1 year or more

On gains above ₹1.25 L per financial year

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 · Childrens' Fund

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Axis Children's FundThis fund Axis · Regular · IDCW	—	-10.04%	+3.81%	+2.54%	—	2.40%	—
Axis Children's Fund Axis · Regular · IDCW	—	-10.05%	+3.81%	+2.54%	—	2.40%	—
Axis Children's Fund Axis · Direct · Growth	—	-1.59%	+7.87%	+5.52%	—	1.49%	—
Axis Children's Fund Axis · Direct · Growth	★★☆☆☆ CAT	-1.59%	+7.76%	+5.36%	23.06	1.49%	—
Axis Children's Fund Axis · Regular · Growth	★★☆☆☆ CAT	-2.48%	+6.66%	+4.22%	—	2.40%	—
Axis Children's Fund Axis · Regular · Growth	—	-2.48%	+6.66%	+4.22%	—	2.40%	—

Market-cap allocation · AMFI bands, Jul 2026

Equity holdings by company size — 98% of the equity sleeve priced.

Large cap71.2%
Mid cap14.5%
Small cap14.2%

Asset allocation

As on 31 Aug 2026 · AMC disclosure

Equity71.88%
Debt26.12%
Cash & Equivalents2.07%

Holds the same stocks as (by portfolio overlap, not by category)

Compare the top 3 →

Fund	Overlap	Rating	TER	3Y
Axis Aggressive Hybrid Fund Axis · Aggressive Hybrid Fund	94.7% of 75% equity	★★☆☆☆	1.18%	+8.70%
Axis Retirement Fund - Aggressive Axis · Retirement Fund	90.1% of 75% equity	★★★☆☆	1.26%	+9.96%
Axis Retirement Fund - Dynamic Axis · Retirement Fund	88.0% of 80% equity	★★★☆☆	1.34%	+10.86%
Axis Balanced Advantage Fund Axis · Dynamic Asset Allocation or Balanced Advantage	79.2% of 76% equity	★★★★☆	1.07%	+10.83%
Canara Robeco Large Cap Fund Canara Robeco · Large Cap Fund	61.7%	★★★★☆	0.63%	+9.16%
Canara Robeco ELSS - Tax Saver Fund Canara Robeco · ELSS	61.4%	★★★☆☆	0.70%	+10.61%
Bandhan Nifty 100 Index Fund Bandhan · Index Funds	60.2%	★★★★☆	0.18%	+7.65%
Nippon India ETF Nifty 100 Nippon India · Other ETFs	60.2%	—	0.51%	+7.29%

Overlap is the share of each fund's equity book invested in the same stocks, by weight, across the Direct-plan universe — so a fund that is only part equity is labelled as such. ! marks a pair holding more in common than nine pairs in ten of its type, where that type has a measured distribution.

🚩Holdings under NSE surveillance (ASM)

2 holdings — 1.27% of the portfolio — sit in stocks NSE currently lists under its Additional Surveillance Measure. ASM is an exchange response to unusual price or volume activity (higher margins, and trade-for-trade settlement at stage II), not a view on the company or on this fund.

Sansera Engineering LimitedLong-term · Stage I1.01%
Cyient DLM LimitedLong-term · Stage I0.26%

Source: NSE ASM list, matched to holdings by company name — a holding whose name differs from NSE's spelling may not be matched. BSE's separate list is not covered.

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.

-27.2%12 Feb 2020 → 23 Mar 2020
Fell over 40 days, back to the old high on 06 Nov 2020 — 7 months under water after the low.
-18.6%17 Jan 2022 → 17 Jun 2022
Fell over 5 months, back to the old high on 14 Dec 2023 — 18 months under water after the low.
-13.2%29 Oct 2025 → 01 Oct 2026
Still below that high — 11 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

Axis Mutual Fund is run by Axis Asset Management, majority-owned by Axis Bank with the UK's Schroders holding the minority stake. It launched its first scheme in 2009 and grew quickly on a growth-oriented, quality-biased equity style.

Launched

03 Sep 2009

Total AUM

₹3,82,966Cr+3.8% QoQ

Avg AUM · July - September 2026

Website

axismf.com

Fund Managers

KNKrishnaa NarayanStart date not disclosed

Role

Fund Manager – Foreign Securities

Education

Chartered Accountant and Bachelor of Commerce (Accounts & Finance)

Experience

6 years • Axis Asset Managem ent Company Ltd. [Fund Manager - (For Foreign Securities)] - March 01, 2024 till date • Axis Asset Managem ent Company Ltd. (Junior Research Analyst – Equity) – May 12, 2021 – February 29, 2024 • Price Waterhous e & Co LLP - April 22, 2019 – May 07, 2021 of the Fund Manager

Funds managed (20)

All schemes Krishnaa Narayan runs →

DSDevang ShahStart date not disclosed

Education

B. Com, ACA

Experience

Manager in the last 10 years management " 22 years, his last

Funds managed (18)

All schemes Devang Shah runs →

HSHardik ShahStart date not disclosed

Role

Fund Manager – Fixed Income

Education

MBA (Finance), B.E(I.T)

Experience

15 years, his last 10 • Axis Asset Management Company Ltd (January 2022 – Present) • SBI LIFE Insurance Co. Ltd. (June 2020 – January 2022) • Nippon India Asset Management Co. Ltd. ( erst. Reliance Mutual Fund) ( July 2013 – June 2020) Quantum Mutual Fund (Nov 2009 – July 2013) 28

Funds managed (13)

All schemes Hardik Shah runs →

JSJayesh SundarStart date not disclosed

Role

Fund Manager - Equity

Education

Chartered Accountant

Experience

Total number of years of years, his last 10 years’ experience are as follows: Axis Asset Management Company Ltd (September 21, 2023 - Current) Aviva Life Insurance India Ltd (October 06, 2012 – September 08, 2023)

Funds managed (7)

All schemes Jayesh Sundar runs →

Fund manager, benchmark and dealing terms from this scheme's SEBI-filed Scheme Information Document on AMFI. Each manager's qualifications and role are reconciled across every filing this fund house makes for them, including its Statement of Additional Information. Total AUM via AMFI.

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Fund managers

Krishnaa Narayan Devang Shah Hardik Shah Jayesh Sundar

Top holdings

ICICI Bank Limited Reliance Industries Limited HDFC Bank Limited State Bank of India Infosys Limited Mahindra & Mahindra Limited Bharti Airtel Limited Kotak Mahindra Bank Limited Larsen & Toubro Limited Bajaj Finance Limited Eternal Limited Apollo Hospitals Enterprise Limited

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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 Axis Children's Fund?

As of 05 Oct 2026, the NAV of Axis Children's Fund is ₹23.38 per unit. NAV (net asset value) is the fund's per-unit price, published once each business day.

What returns has Axis Children's Fund delivered?

Axis Children's Fund has returned -10.04% over 1 year, +3.81% per year over 3 years, +2.54% per year over 5 years and +8.16% 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 Axis Children's Fund?

Axis Children's Fund charges an expense ratio of 2.40% 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 Axis Children's Fund?

Axis Children's Fund's largest holdings are 7.1% Government of India (08/04/2034) (8.4%), ICICI Bank Limited (5.0%), Reliance Industries Limited (4.6%), HDFC Bank Limited (4.2%) and 7.18% Government of India (14/08/2033) (3.9%). Holdings are disclosed monthly and change over time.

How risky is Axis Children's Fund?

Axis Children's Fund is rated high on SEBI's risk-o-meter, its trailing-3Y volatility (annualised) is 11.0% and its worst peak-to-trough fall in our sample was -27.2%. 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 -0.24 mean?

The Sharpe ratio is return earned per unit of total risk, above a 6.5% risk-free rate. Axis Children's Fund's -0.24 means it has not compensated investors for its volatility over the window. Higher is better.

What is the benchmark of Axis Children's Fund?

Axis Children's Fund is benchmarked against the NIFTY 50 Hybrid Composite Debt 65:35 Index. Its alpha and beta on this page are measured against that index.

Who manages Axis Children's Fund?

Axis Children's Fund is managed by Krishnaa Narayan, Devang Shah, Hardik Shah and Jayesh Sundar at Axis.

How is Axis Children's Fund taxed?

Axis Children's Fund is an equity-oriented fund, so its capital gains get concessional rates: short-term gains (units held under 1 year) are taxed at 20%, and long-term gains (held 1 year or more) at 12.5% above a ₹1.25 lakh per-year exemption. These rates apply on redemption and don't add to your income-tax slab.