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Quantum ESG Best in Class Strategy Fund

Q: What is the NAV of Quantum ESG Best in Class Strategy Fund?

As of 05 Oct 2026, the NAV of Quantum ESG Best in Class Strategy Fund is ₹23.55 per unit. NAV (net asset value) is the fund's per-unit price, published once each business day.

Q: What returns has Quantum ESG Best in Class Strategy Fund delivered?

Quantum ESG Best in Class Strategy Fund has returned -6.33% over 1 year, +6.88% per year over 3 years, +6.13% per year over 5 years and +12.57% 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 Quantum ESG Best in Class Strategy Fund?

Quantum ESG Best in Class Strategy Fund charges an expense ratio of 0.82% 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 Quantum ESG Best in Class Strategy Fund?

Quantum ESG Best in Class Strategy Fund's largest holdings are TVS Motor Company Ltd (6.2%), HDFC Bank Ltd (3.7%), The Federal Bank Ltd (3.7%), Marico Ltd (3.6%) and Bajaj Finance Ltd (3.5%). Holdings are disclosed monthly and change over time.

Q: How risky is Quantum ESG Best in Class Strategy Fund?

Quantum ESG Best in Class Strategy Fund is rated very high on SEBI's risk-o-meter, its trailing-3Y volatility (annualised) is 13.5% and its worst peak-to-trough fall in our sample was -33.2%. 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 0.03 mean?

The Sharpe ratio is return earned per unit of total risk, above a 6.5% risk-free rate. Quantum ESG Best in Class Strategy Fund's 0.03 means it has rewarded its volatility with excess return. Higher is better.

Q: What is the benchmark of Quantum ESG Best in Class Strategy Fund?

Quantum ESG Best in Class Strategy Fund is benchmarked against the Nifty 100 ESG TRI. Its alpha and beta on this page are measured against that index.

Q: Who manages Quantum ESG Best in Class Strategy Fund?

Quantum ESG Best in Class Strategy Fund is managed by Chirag Mehta and Rajorshi Palit at Quantum.

Q: How is Quantum ESG Best in Class Strategy Fund taxed?

Quantum ESG Best in Class Strategy 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.

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NAV

₹23.55

+0.21% 1D

as of 05 Oct 2026

This is the Direct plan of Quantum ESG Best in Class Strategy Fund — bought from the fund house, with no distributor commission in 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

-6.92%absolute

52-week rangePrev NAV ₹23.50

Latest ₹23.55

Low ₹21.6943rd percentile of its 52-week rangeHigh ₹25.97

Scorecard

★★★☆☆3/5 vs 142 of 255 Sectoral/ Thematic 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 Sectoral/ Thematic (same plan and option). 142 of the 255 Sectoral/ Thematic funds in this cohort carry the full record the stars need, so they are the ones ranked against.

PerformanceBelow avg

3Y CAGR +6.88% · ranks 124 of 142 Sectoral/ Thematic funds

RiskLow

Volatility 13.5% vs 15.7% category avg

CostLow

0.8% expense vs 1.3% category avg

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

Less volatile than its Sectoral/ Thematic peers (13.5% vs 15.7%)
Low expense ratio (0.82%) vs the Sectoral/ Thematic average of 1.27%
Consistent — positive in 100% of rolling 3-year windows

Concerns

Trails the Sectoral/ Thematic average on 1M/3M/6M/1Y — 1Y by 9.76pp
3-year return (+6.88%) trails the Sectoral/ Thematic average (+13.85%)
5-year return (+6.13%) trails the Sectoral/ Thematic average (+12.10%)
Ranks #194 of 229 on 1-year return in its Sectoral/ Thematic cohort
Weaker risk-adjusted returns — Sharpe 0.03 below the Sectoral/ Thematic average of 0.45

Key Metrics

Annual fee charged by the fund, already deducted from NAV

0.82%

Category 1.27%▼0.45%

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

29.90

Category 28.66▲1.24

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

0.03

Category 0.45▼0.42

Scheme Info

Definitions

Plan

Direct · Growth

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

None

NIL- 10% of units If redeemed or switched out on or before 365 days from the date of allotment, 1%- Remaining 90% of units if redeemed or switched out on or before 365 days from the date of allotment, NIL – If redeemed or switched out after 365 days from the date of allotment

None

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

₹100

Smallest one-time (lumpsum) investment the scheme accepts

₹500

Nifty 100 ESG TRI

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.

12 Jul 2019

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

Definitions

Absolute return over the last 1 month (not annualized)

-5.76%

Absolute return over the last 3 months (not annualized)

-3.68%

Absolute return over the last 6 months (not annualized)

+5.94%

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

-8.22%

Annualized returns (≥1Y — CAGR)

Definitions

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

-6.33%

3-year annualized return (CAGR)

+6.88%

5-year annualized return (CAGR)

+6.13%

10-year annualized return (CAGR)

—

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.

+12.57%

Advanced metrics — risk and benchmark ratios

Risk (trailing 3Y)

Definitions

Annualized standard deviation of daily returns

13.48%

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

0.03

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

0.04

Largest peak-to-trough decline over full history

-33.15%

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

-2.44%

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

0.97

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

91.4%

Excess return per unit of beta (market risk)

0.41

Active return over the benchmark per unit of tracking error

-0.60

Annualized std dev of fund-minus-benchmark returns

4.71%

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

91.7%

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

103.1%

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 (Sectoral/ Thematic)

Period	Fund	Category avg.	Diff
1M abs	-5.76%	-4.47%	-1.29%
3M abs	-3.68%	-2.32%	-1.36%
6M abs	+5.94%	+12.09%	-6.15%
1Y CAGR	-6.33%	+3.43%	-9.76%
3Y CAGR	+6.88%	+13.85%	-6.97%
5Y CAGR	+6.13%	+12.10%	-5.97%

Category average across peers in Sectoral/ Thematic (up to 255 funds with data), 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 255 peers in Sectoral/ Thematic

1Y return

-6.33%

Beats 15.4% · rank #194

3Y return

+6.88%

Beats 12.8% · rank #124

5Y return

+6.13%

Beats 8.9% · rank #93

Sharpe

0.03

Beats 12.8% · rank #124

Sortino

0.04

Beats 12.8% · rank #124

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

₹6.84L

Absolute

+13.98%

XIRR

+5.34%

Value vs. invested

ValueInvested

60 monthly installments of ₹10,000 into Quantum ESG Best in Class Strategy 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	-8.22%	-7.18%	-1.04%
2025	+3.18%	+7.94%	-4.76%
2024	+16.54%	+16.43%	+0.11%
2023	+25.83%	+27.43%	-1.60%
2022	-3.09%	+4.34%	-7.43%
2021	+31.48%	+31.59%	-0.11%
2020	+25.80%	+18.33%	+7.47%
2019part	+5.80%	—	—

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

1,780

Expense ratio

0.82%

AUM

₹92.18Cr

Portfolio turnover

21%

Exit load

P/E ratio

29.9

P/B ratio

5.6

Avg market cap

₹1,92,773Cr

P/E & P/B are portfolio-weighted harmonic means across 42 of 51 equity holdings (85% 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 · Sectoral/ Thematic

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Quantum ESG Best in Class Strategy FundThis fund Quantum · Direct · Growth	★★★☆☆	-6.33%	+6.88%	+6.13%	29.90	0.82%	₹92.18Cr
Nippon India Taiwan Equity Fund Nippon India · Direct · Growth	★★★★☆	+128.11%	+63.78%	—	—	1.06%	₹1,110Cr
HDFC Defence Fund HDFC · Direct · Growth	★★★★☆	+20.18%	+36.05%	—	57.59	0.89%	₹9,371Cr
HDFC Pharma and Healthcare Fund HDFC · Direct · Growth	★★★★★	+25.57%	+29.81%	—	44.12	1.03%	₹2,282Cr
Franklin Asian Equity Fund Franklin Templeton · Direct · Growth	★★★☆☆	+32.46%	+25.00%	+9.83%	26.07	1.21%	₹720.84Cr
Nippon India Japan Equity Fund Nippon India · Direct · Growth	★★★☆☆	+30.50%	+24.42%	+12.14%	—	1.37%	₹330.20Cr

Market-cap allocation · AMFI bands, Jul 2026

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

Large cap45.8%
Mid cap25.1%
Small cap29.1%

Asset allocation

As on 31 Aug 2026 · AMC disclosure

Equity97.77%
Cash & Equivalents2.23%

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

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Quantum Ethical Fund Quantum · Sectoral/ Thematic	66.3%	★★★☆☆	0.85%	—
Quantum Multi Asset Allocation Fund Quantum · Multi Asset Allocation	31.8% of 51% equity	★★☆☆☆	0.45%	—
Baroda BNP Paribas ESG Best-in-Class Strategy Fund Baroda BNP Paribas · Sectoral/ Thematic	30.6%	—	1.15%	—
NJ Balanced Advantage Fund NJ · Dynamic Asset Allocation or Balanced Advantage	28.0%	★★☆☆☆	1.14%	+7.73%
HDFC Multi Asset Allocation Fund HDFC · Multi Asset Allocation	27.1% of 67% equity	★★★☆☆	0.99%	+11.32%
NJ Flexi Cap Fund NJ · Flexi Cap Fund	26.4%	★☆☆☆☆	0.87%	+9.04%
UTI Balanced Advantage Fund UTI · Dynamic Asset Allocation or Balanced Advantage	26.1% of 68% equity	★★☆☆☆	0.91%	+7.68%
UTI Nifty50 Equal Weight Index Fund UTI · Index Funds	26.1%	★★★☆☆	0.45%	+10.08%

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.

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.

-33.1%24 Jan 2020 → 23 Mar 2020
Fell over 2 months, back to the old high on 26 Aug 2020 — 5 months under water after the low.
-19.8%27 Sep 2024 → 30 Mar 2026
Still below that high — 1.5 years down, and no recovery yet.
-19.8%18 Oct 2021 → 17 Jun 2022
Fell over 8 months, back to the old high on 14 Jun 2023 — 12 months under water after the low.

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.

Fund size over time

Quarterly average AUM · AMFI

₹92.18Cr

April - June 2026

-4%

since January - March 2026

+₹1.58Cr

est. net flow, last quarter

At or near its largest, ₹95.56Cr in January - March 2026. Size matters most where the mandate is narrow — a large small-cap or a very large flexi-cap book is harder to move without moving the price.

Net flow is an estimate: AMFI publishes a quarterly average AUM, not a closing balance, and it covers every plan and option of this scheme together, so it is a read on direction and rough size rather than a cash-flow statement.

AMC Profile

Quantum Mutual Fund is sponsored by Quantum Advisors and opened in 2006 as India's first direct-to-investor fund house, selling without distributors. It has stayed small, with a value-oriented, low-churn approach.

Launched

18 Sep 2005

Total AUM

₹3,322Cr+4.3% QoQ

Avg AUM · July - September 2026

Website

quantumamc.com

Fund Managers

CMChirag MehtaManaging since 12 Jul 2019

Role

Chief Investment Officer

Education

MMS (Finance), M.Com, CAIA

Experience

Mr. Chirag Mehta has over 2 decades of experience in financial markets. He specializes in the field of alternative investment strategies including multi asset allocation and commodities. He has also extensively worked on sustainable investing since 2015. He joined the Quantum group in 2006 after gaining hands on experience in the physical commodities market during internship and continued association with Kotak & Co. Ltd and working on projects for the Federation of Indian Commodities Exchanges.

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RPRajorshi PalitManaging since 04 Nov 2024

Education

BBA. LLB (Ho ns.)

Experience

AMC, he was with Quantum Private Limited and Empowerment

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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

Chirag Mehta

Top holdings

TVS Motor Company Ltd HDFC Bank Ltd The Federal Bank Ltd Marico Ltd Bajaj Finance Ltd Persistent Systems Ltd Bosch Ltd VA Tech Wabag Ltd HDFC Life Insurance Company Ltd Amber Enterprises India Ltd Titan Company Ltd Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd

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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.

About Sectoral & Thematic funds

Sectoral and thematic funds must keep at least 80% in the equity of one sector (banking, pharma, technology) or one theme (consumption, manufacturing, ESG). That concentration is the point and the risk: with no mandate to diversify away from the sector, the fund rises and falls with it.

Frequently asked questions

What is the NAV of Quantum ESG Best in Class Strategy Fund?

As of 05 Oct 2026, the NAV of Quantum ESG Best in Class Strategy Fund is ₹23.55 per unit. NAV (net asset value) is the fund's per-unit price, published once each business day.

What returns has Quantum ESG Best in Class Strategy Fund delivered?

Quantum ESG Best in Class Strategy Fund has returned -6.33% over 1 year, +6.88% per year over 3 years, +6.13% per year over 5 years and +12.57% 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 Quantum ESG Best in Class Strategy Fund?

Quantum ESG Best in Class Strategy Fund charges an expense ratio of 0.82% 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 Quantum ESG Best in Class Strategy Fund?

Quantum ESG Best in Class Strategy Fund's largest holdings are TVS Motor Company Ltd (6.2%), HDFC Bank Ltd (3.7%), The Federal Bank Ltd (3.7%), Marico Ltd (3.6%) and Bajaj Finance Ltd (3.5%). Holdings are disclosed monthly and change over time.

How risky is Quantum ESG Best in Class Strategy Fund?

Quantum ESG Best in Class Strategy Fund is rated very high on SEBI's risk-o-meter, its trailing-3Y volatility (annualised) is 13.5% and its worst peak-to-trough fall in our sample was -33.2%. 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 0.03 mean?

The Sharpe ratio is return earned per unit of total risk, above a 6.5% risk-free rate. Quantum ESG Best in Class Strategy Fund's 0.03 means it has rewarded its volatility with excess return. Higher is better.

What is the benchmark of Quantum ESG Best in Class Strategy Fund?

Quantum ESG Best in Class Strategy Fund is benchmarked against the Nifty 100 ESG TRI. Its alpha and beta on this page are measured against that index.

Who manages Quantum ESG Best in Class Strategy Fund?

Quantum ESG Best in Class Strategy Fund is managed by Chirag Mehta and Rajorshi Palit at Quantum.

How is Quantum ESG Best in Class Strategy Fund taxed?

Quantum ESG Best in Class Strategy 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.