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Canara Robeco Balanced Advantage Fund

Q: What is the NAV of Canara Robeco Balanced Advantage Fund?

As of 20 Aug 2026, the NAV of Canara Robeco Balanced Advantage Fund is ₹10.67 per unit. NAV (net asset value) is the fund's per-unit price, published once each business day.

Q: What returns has Canara Robeco Balanced Advantage Fund delivered?

Canara Robeco Balanced Advantage Fund has returned +2.20% over 1 year and +3.29% 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 Canara Robeco Balanced Advantage Fund?

Canara Robeco Balanced Advantage Fund charges an expense ratio of 1.00% 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 Canara Robeco Balanced Advantage Fund?

Its largest holdings are HDFC Bank Ltd (6.0%), Reliance Industries Ltd (4.8%), ICICI Bank Ltd (4.8%), Bharti Airtel Ltd (3.2%) and Larsen & Toubro Ltd (3.1%). Holdings are disclosed monthly and change over time.

Q: How risky is Canara Robeco Balanced Advantage Fund?

It is rated high on SEBI's risk-o-meter, its trailing-3Y volatility (annualised) is 9.2% and its worst peak-to-trough fall in our sample was -11.0%. 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 -0.47 mean?

The Sharpe ratio is return earned per unit of total risk, above a 6.5% risk-free rate. Canara Robeco Balanced Advantage Fund's -0.47 means it has not compensated investors for its volatility over the window. Higher is better.

Q: What is the benchmark of Canara Robeco Balanced Advantage Fund?

Canara Robeco Balanced Advantage Fund is benchmarked against the As per AMFI Tier I Benchmark: CRISIL Hybrid 50+50 - Moderate Index Above Benchmark is First Tier Benchmark as per Paragr. Its alpha and beta on this page are measured against that index.

Q: Who manages Canara Robeco Balanced Advantage Fund?

Canara Robeco Balanced Advantage Fund is managed by Shridatta Bhandwaldar, Amit Kadam, Pranav Gokhale, Suman Prasad and Ennette Fernandes at Canara Robeco.

Q: How is Canara Robeco Balanced Advantage Fund taxed?

Canara Robeco Balanced Advantage 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.

Canara Robeco Mutual Fund · Best Balanced Advantage Mutual Funds

NAV

₹10.67

+0.38% 1D

as of 20 Aug 2026

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Performance

+2.39%CAGR

52-week rangePrev NAV ₹10.63

Latest ₹10.67

Low ₹9.6591st percentile of its 52-week rangeHigh ₹10.77

Scorecard

★★☆☆☆2/5 vs 36 Dynamic Asset Allocation or Balanced Advantage peers1Y

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 Dynamic Asset Allocation or Balanced Advantage (same plan and option). Based on a 1-year record — this fund is too young for a 3-year CAGR, so its performance is ranked on 1Y against the same peers.

Performance—

Not enough Dynamic Asset Allocation or Balanced Advantage peers to rank yet

RiskModerate

Volatility 9.2% vs 8.4% category avg

CostAverage

1.0% expense vs 1.1% category avg

Consistency—

Not enough history for a rolling 3Y view

Strengths & concerns

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

Strengths

No standout strengths identified.

Concerns

1-year return (+2.20%) trails the Dynamic Asset Allocation or Balanced Advantage average (+4.15%)
Weaker risk-adjusted returns — Sharpe -0.47 below the Dynamic Asset Allocation or Balanced Advantage average of 0.49

Key Metrics

Annual fee charged by the fund, already deducted from NAV

Category 1.09%

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

Category 22.75

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

-0.47

Category 0.49▼0.96

Scheme Info

Definitions

Plan

Direct · 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.

06 Aug 2024

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

Definitions

Absolute return over the last 1 month (not annualized)

+1.43%

Absolute return over the last 3 months (not annualized)

+4.92%

Absolute return over the last 6 months (not annualized)

+0.95%

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

-0.37%

Annualized returns (≥1Y — CAGR)

Definitions

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

+2.20%

3-year annualized return (CAGR)

—

5-year annualized return (CAGR)

—

10-year annualized return (CAGR)

—

Annualized return (CAGR) since the fund's inception

+3.29%

Advanced metrics — risk and benchmark ratios

Risk (trailing 3Y)

Definitions

Annualized standard deviation of daily returns

9.24%

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

-0.47

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

-0.64

Largest peak-to-trough decline over full history

-11.02%

Benchmark ratios (vs Nifty 50 · 36 monthly returns)

Definitions

Jensen's alpha (annualized): return above what CAPM predicts for the fund's beta vs Nifty 50

—

Sensitivity to Nifty 50 moves; 1 = moves with the index

—

How much of the fund's movement Nifty 50 explains

—

Excess return per unit of beta (market risk)

—

Active return over the benchmark per unit of tracking error

—

Annualized std dev of fund-minus-benchmark returns

—

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

—

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

—

Computed vs the Nifty 50 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 (Dynamic Asset Allocation or Balanced Advantage)

Period	Fund	Category avg.	Diff
1M abs	+1.43%	+1.22%	+0.21%
3M abs	+4.92%	+4.40%	+0.52%
6M abs	+0.95%	+2.35%	-1.40%
1Y CAGR	+2.20%	+4.15%	-1.95%
3Y CAGR	—	+11.07%	—
5Y CAGR	—	+10.12%	—

Category average across peers in Dynamic Asset Allocation or Balanced Advantage (up to 36 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 36 peers in Dynamic Asset Allocation or Balanced Advantage

1Y return

+2.20%

Beats 25.7% · rank #27

3Y return

—

5Y return

—

Sharpe

-0.47

Beats 5.7% · rank #34

Sortino

-0.64

Beats 5.7% · rank #34

Rolling returns

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

This fundNifty 50

Average

+3.5%

Median

+3.2%

Best

+9.8%

Worst

-0.5%

Positive periods

92.3%

13 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

₹1.20L

Current value

₹1.22L

Absolute

+1.90%

XIRR

+4.16%

Value vs. invested

12 monthly installments of ₹10,000 into Canara Robeco Balanced Advantage 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 50	Diff
2026part	-0.19%	-7.26%	+7.07%
2025	+6.05%	+10.51%	-4.46%
2024part	+0.90%	—	—

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

503

Expense ratio

AUM

Portfolio turnover

Exit load

P/E ratio

P/B ratio

Avg market cap

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 · Dynamic Asset Allocation or Balanced Advantage

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Canara Robeco Balanced Advantage FundThis fund Canara Robeco	★★☆☆☆ 1Y	+2.20%	—	—	18.66	1.00%	₹1,148Cr
quant Dynamic Asset Allocation Fund quant	★★★☆☆	+0.11%	+15.37%	—	37.27	1.55%	₹902.64Cr
Baroda BNP Paribas Balanced Advantage Fund Baroda BNP Paribas	★★★★☆	+8.61%	+13.90%	+12.50%	25.51	0.95%	₹4,798Cr
Axis Balanced Advantage Fund Axis	★★★★☆	+4.79%	+13.41%	+10.63%	22.13	1.06%	₹3,759Cr
HDFC Balanced Advantage Fund HDFC	★★★★★	+2.41%	+13.38%	+16.11%	17.37	0.76%	₹1,04,783Cr
WhiteOak Capital Balanced Advantage Fund WhiteOak Capital	★★★★☆	+5.86%	+13.27%	—	23.38	0.85%	₹2,152Cr

Market-cap allocation · AMFI bands, Jul 2026

Equity holdings by company size — 100% of the equity sleeve priced.

Large cap79.1%
Mid cap7.0%
Small cap13.9%

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.

-11.0%26 Sep 2024 → 28 Feb 2025
Fell over 5 months, back to the old high on 17 Sep 2025 — 7 months under water after the low.
-10.4%02 Jan 2026 → 30 Mar 2026
Still below that high — 3 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.

Fund size over time

Quarterly average AUM · AMFI

₹1,148Cr

April - June 2026

-8%

since January - March 2026

Down +8% from its peak of ₹1,242Cr 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.

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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 Balanced Advantage funds

Balanced advantage (dynamic asset allocation) funds move between equity and debt based on market valuations, adding more stocks when they look cheap and trimming when they look dear. The goal is a smoother ride.

Frequently asked questions

What is the NAV of Canara Robeco Balanced Advantage Fund?

As of 20 Aug 2026, the NAV of Canara Robeco Balanced Advantage Fund is ₹10.67 per unit. NAV (net asset value) is the fund's per-unit price, published once each business day.

What returns has Canara Robeco Balanced Advantage Fund delivered?

Canara Robeco Balanced Advantage Fund has returned +2.20% over 1 year and +3.29% 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 Canara Robeco Balanced Advantage Fund?

Canara Robeco Balanced Advantage Fund charges an expense ratio of 1.00% 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 Canara Robeco Balanced Advantage Fund?

Its largest holdings are HDFC Bank Ltd (6.0%), Reliance Industries Ltd (4.8%), ICICI Bank Ltd (4.8%), Bharti Airtel Ltd (3.2%) and Larsen & Toubro Ltd (3.1%). Holdings are disclosed monthly and change over time.

How risky is Canara Robeco Balanced Advantage Fund?

It is rated high on SEBI's risk-o-meter, its trailing-3Y volatility (annualised) is 9.2% and its worst peak-to-trough fall in our sample was -11.0%. 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 -0.47 mean?

The Sharpe ratio is return earned per unit of total risk, above a 6.5% risk-free rate. Canara Robeco Balanced Advantage Fund's -0.47 means it has not compensated investors for its volatility over the window. Higher is better.

What is the benchmark of Canara Robeco Balanced Advantage Fund?

Canara Robeco Balanced Advantage Fund is benchmarked against the As per AMFI Tier I Benchmark: CRISIL Hybrid 50+50 - Moderate Index Above Benchmark is First Tier Benchmark as per Paragr. Its alpha and beta on this page are measured against that index.

Who manages Canara Robeco Balanced Advantage Fund?

Canara Robeco Balanced Advantage Fund is managed by Shridatta Bhandwaldar, Amit Kadam, Pranav Gokhale, Suman Prasad and Ennette Fernandes at Canara Robeco.

How is Canara Robeco Balanced Advantage Fund taxed?

Canara Robeco Balanced Advantage 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.