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Kotak US Specific Equity Passive FOF

Q: What is the NAV of Kotak US Specific Equity Passive FOF?

As of 20 Aug 2026, the NAV of Kotak US Specific Equity Passive FOF is ₹27.78 per unit. NAV (net asset value) is the fund's per-unit price, published once each business day.

Q: What returns has Kotak US Specific Equity Passive FOF delivered?

Kotak US Specific Equity Passive FOF has returned +37.92% over 1 year, +31.47% per year over 3 years, +19.68% per year over 5 years and +20.29% 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 Kotak US Specific Equity Passive FOF?

Kotak US Specific Equity Passive FOF charges an expense ratio of 0.72% 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 Kotak US Specific Equity Passive FOF?

Its largest holdings are IShares NASDAQ 100 UCITS ETF (100.0%). Holdings are disclosed monthly and change over time.

Q: How risky is Kotak US Specific Equity Passive FOF?

It is rated very high on SEBI's risk-o-meter, its trailing-3Y volatility (annualised) is 19.6% and its worst peak-to-trough fall in our sample was -29.3%. 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 1.27 mean?

The Sharpe ratio is return earned per unit of total risk, above a 6.5% risk-free rate. Kotak US Specific Equity Passive FOF's 1.27 means it has rewarded its volatility with excess return. Higher is better.

Q: What is the benchmark of Kotak US Specific Equity Passive FOF?

Kotak US Specific Equity Passive FOF is benchmarked against the Nasdaq 100 Total Return Index. Its alpha and beta on this page are measured against that index.

Q: Who manages Kotak US Specific Equity Passive FOF?

Kotak US Specific Equity Passive FOF is managed by Abhishek Bisen and Arjun Khanna at Kotak Mahindra.

Q: How is Kotak US Specific Equity Passive FOF taxed?

Kotak US Specific Equity 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.

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This is the Regular plan of Kotak US Specific Equity 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.

NAV

₹27.78

-1.04% 1D

as of 20 Aug 2026

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Performance

+35.78%CAGR

52-week rangePrev NAV ₹28.07

Latest ₹27.78

Low ₹20.1485th percentile of its 52-week rangeHigh ₹29.15

Scorecard

★★★★☆4/5 vs 46 of 50 FoF Overseas 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 Overseas (same plan and option). 46 of the 50 FoF Overseas funds in this cohort carry the full record the stars need, so they are the ones ranked against.

PerformanceStrong

3Y CAGR +31.47% · ranks 7 of 50 FoF Overseas funds

RiskModerate

Volatility 19.6% vs 17.9% category avg

CostLow

0.7% expense vs 1.2% 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

1-year return (+37.92%) beats the FoF Overseas average (+32.89%)
3-year return (+31.47%) beats the FoF Overseas average (+24.18%)
5-year return (+19.68%) beats the FoF Overseas average (+12.37%)
Stronger risk-adjusted returns — Sharpe 1.27 vs 0.93 FoF Overseas average
Low expense ratio (0.72%) vs the FoF Overseas average of 1.24%

Concerns

No significant concerns identified.

Key Metrics

Annual fee charged by the fund, already deducted from NAV

Category 1.24%

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

Category —

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

1.27

Category 0.93▲0.34

Scheme Info

Definitions

Plan

Regular · Growth

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

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.

09 Feb 2021

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

Definitions

Absolute return over the last 1 month (not annualized)

+0.39%

Absolute return over the last 3 months (not annualized)

-1.43%

Absolute return over the last 6 months (not annualized)

+22.82%

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

+21.95%

Annualized returns (≥1Y — CAGR)

Definitions

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

+37.92%

3-year annualized return (CAGR)

+31.47%

5-year annualized return (CAGR)

+19.68%

10-year annualized return (CAGR)

—

Annualized return (CAGR) since the fund's inception

+20.29%

Advanced metrics — risk and benchmark ratios

Risk (trailing 3Y)

Definitions

Annualized standard deviation of daily returns

19.64%

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

1.27

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

1.85

Largest peak-to-trough decline over full history

-29.28%

Benchmark ratios (vs S&P 500 · 36 monthly returns)

Definitions

Jensen's alpha (annualized): return above what CAPM predicts for the fund's beta vs S&P 500

5.52%

Sensitivity to S&P 500 moves; 1 = moves with the index

1.27

How much of the fund's movement S&P 500 explains

73.0%

Excess return per unit of beta (market risk)

17.80

Active return over the benchmark per unit of tracking error

0.92

Annualized std dev of fund-minus-benchmark returns

10.58%

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

131.6%

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

107.9%

Computed vs the S&P 500 price index — the closest match to this fund's mandate. Needs ~3 years of history; a low R² means the fund tracks the index loosely.

Fund vs category average (FoF Overseas)

Period	Fund	Category avg.	Diff
1M abs	+0.39%	+2.88%	-2.49%
3M abs	-1.43%	+0.98%	-2.41%
6M abs	+22.82%	+11.63%	+11.19%
1Y CAGR	+37.92%	+32.89%	+5.03%
3Y CAGR	+31.47%	+24.18%	+7.29%
5Y CAGR	+19.68%	+12.37%	+7.31%

Category average across peers in FoF Overseas (up to 50 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 50 peers in FoF Overseas

1Y return

+37.92%

Beats 69.4% · rank #16

3Y return

+31.47%

Beats 86.4% · rank #7

5Y return

+19.68%

Beats 93.5% · rank #3

Sharpe

1.27

Beats 85.7% · rank #8

Sortino

1.85

Beats 81.6% · rank #10

Rolling returns

Return for every possible 1Y holding period, not just today’s

This fundS&P 500

Average

+21.1%

Median

+27.2%

Best

+56.8%

Worst

-22.5%

Positive periods

78.2%

55 overlapping 1Y windows, sampled monthly across the fund’s history.

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

₹11.84L

Absolute

+97.29%

XIRR

+28.42%

Value vs. invested

60 monthly installments of ₹10,000 into Kotak US Specific Equity 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	S&P 500	Diff
2026part	+21.95%	+12.23%	+9.72%
2025	+25.65%	+16.39%	+9.26%
2024	+28.21%	+23.31%	+4.90%
2023	+57.75%	+24.23%	+33.52%
2022	-26.84%	-19.44%	-7.40%
2021part	+22.39%	—	—

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

1,269

Expense ratio

AUM

Portfolio turnover

Exit load

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 Overseas

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Kotak US Specific Equity Passive FOFThis fund Kotak Mahindra	★★★★☆	+37.92%	+31.47%	+19.68%	—	0.72%	₹4,327Cr
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Mirae Asset Global X Artificial Intelligence & Technology ETF Fund of Fund Mirae Asset	★★★★★	+56.29%	+38.79%	—	—	0.26%	₹442.34Cr
ICICI Prudential Strategic Metal and Energy Equity Fund of Fund ICICI Prudential	★★★★★	+85.70%	+37.32%	—	—	0.98%	₹280.94Cr
DSP World Mining Overseas Equity Omni FoF DSP	★★★☆☆	+84.39%	+31.80%	+20.52%	—	2.28%	₹181.05Cr
Navi NASDAQ100 US Specific Equity Passive FOF Navi	★★★★☆	+38.02%	+31.75%	—	—	0.35%	₹1,208Cr

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.

-29.3%22 Nov 2021 → 16 Jun 2022
Fell over 7 months, back to the old high on 15 Jun 2023 — 12 months under water after the low.
-23.4%17 Feb 2025 → 07 Apr 2025
Fell over 2 months, back to the old high on 27 Jun 2025 — 3 months under water after the low.
-12.0%10 Jul 2024 → 05 Aug 2024
Fell over 26 days, back to the old high on 25 Oct 2024 — 3 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

₹4,327Cr

April - June 2026

+16%

since January - March 2026

At or near its largest, ₹4,327Cr in April - June 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.

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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 Kotak US Specific Equity Passive FOF?

As of 20 Aug 2026, the NAV of Kotak US Specific Equity Passive FOF is ₹27.78 per unit. NAV (net asset value) is the fund's per-unit price, published once each business day.

What returns has Kotak US Specific Equity Passive FOF delivered?

Kotak US Specific Equity Passive FOF has returned +37.92% over 1 year, +31.47% per year over 3 years, +19.68% per year over 5 years and +20.29% 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 Kotak US Specific Equity Passive FOF?

Kotak US Specific Equity Passive FOF charges an expense ratio of 0.72% 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 Kotak US Specific Equity Passive FOF?

Its largest holdings are IShares NASDAQ 100 UCITS ETF (100.0%). Holdings are disclosed monthly and change over time.

How risky is Kotak US Specific Equity Passive FOF?

It is rated very high on SEBI's risk-o-meter, its trailing-3Y volatility (annualised) is 19.6% and its worst peak-to-trough fall in our sample was -29.3%. 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 1.27 mean?

The Sharpe ratio is return earned per unit of total risk, above a 6.5% risk-free rate. Kotak US Specific Equity Passive FOF's 1.27 means it has rewarded its volatility with excess return. Higher is better.

What is the benchmark of Kotak US Specific Equity Passive FOF?

Kotak US Specific Equity Passive FOF is benchmarked against the Nasdaq 100 Total Return Index. Its alpha and beta on this page are measured against that index.

Who manages Kotak US Specific Equity Passive FOF?

Kotak US Specific Equity Passive FOF is managed by Abhishek Bisen and Arjun Khanna at Kotak Mahindra.

How is Kotak US Specific Equity Passive FOF taxed?

Kotak US Specific Equity 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.