Q: What are the returns of Motilal Oswal Balanced Advantage Fund?

The Motilal Oswal Balanced Advantage Fund is a 9 yrs old fund and has delivered average annual returns of 8.17% since inception. Motilal Oswal Balanced Advantage Fund Returns 1-Year 3-Year 5-Year Since Inception -11.98% 8.88% 8.57% 8.17%

Question 1

What is the current NAV of Motilal Oswal Balanced Advantage Fund?

Accepted Answer

The current Net Asset Value (NAV) of the Motilal Oswal Balanced Advantage Fund - Direct Growth plan is approximately ₹20.2702 as of Sep 03, 2025.

Question 2

What are the returns of Motilal Oswal Balanced Advantage Fund?

Accepted Answer

The Motilal Oswal Balanced Advantage Fund is a 9 yrs old fund and has delivered average annual returns of 8.17% since inception.

Motilal Oswal Balanced Advantage Fund Returns

1-Year	3-Year	5-Year	Since Inception
-11.98%	8.88%	8.57%	8.17%

Question 3

How much does Motilal Oswal Balanced Advantage Fund charge as the expense ratio?

Accepted Answer

The Motilal Oswal Balanced Advantage Fund - Direct Growth has an expense ratio of 2.23%, which reflects the fund's management and operating costs. This percentage is subtracted from the fund's annual returns, impacting net returns for investors.

Question 4

What is the AUM or size of Motilal Oswal Balanced Advantage Fund?

Accepted Answer

The Motilal Oswal Balanced Advantage Fund currently has assets under management (AUM) or fund size valued at approximately ₹923 Crs crore as of Jun 30, 2025.

Question 5

What are the top stock holdings of Motilal Oswal Balanced Advantage Fund?

Accepted Answer

The Motilal Oswal Balanced Advantage Fund's equity portion has been invested in the stocks of the following companies

Company	Percentage of Portfolio
Coforge Ltd.	11.54%
Shaily Engineering Plastics Ltd.	10.92%
PG Electroplast Ltd.	7.64%
Persistent Systems Ltd.	7.11%
Bharti Airtel Ltd.	7.04%
Kalyan Jewellers India Ltd.	6.07%
Bajaj Holdings & Investment Ltd.	5.09%
ICICI Bank Ltd.	4.7%
Polycab India Ltd.	4.53%
Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd.	3.63%

Question 6

What are the top sectors Motilal Oswal Balanced Advantage Fund has invested in?

Accepted Answer

The Motilal Oswal Balanced Advantage Fund's equity portion is primarily invested in the following sectors -

Company	Percentage of Portfolio
Coforge Ltd.	11.54%
Shaily Engineering Plastics Ltd.	10.92%
PG Electroplast Ltd.	7.64%
Persistent Systems Ltd.	7.11%
Bharti Airtel Ltd.	7.04%
Kalyan Jewellers India Ltd.	6.07%
Bajaj Holdings & Investment Ltd.	5.09%
ICICI Bank Ltd.	4.7%
Polycab India Ltd.	4.53%
Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd.	3.63%

Question 7

To whom does Motilal Oswal Balanced Advantage Fund lend to?

Accepted Answer

The top 3 debt holdings of Motilal Oswal Balanced Advantage Fund are as follows

Holding Name	Percentage of Portfolio
GOI	3.36%
Cholamandalam Investment and Finance Company Ltd.	2.71%
Maharashtra State	1.25%

Question 8

What is the quality of borrowers Motilal Oswal Balanced Advantage Fund lends to?

Accepted Answer

The credit rating of the instruments in which the fund invests represents the quality of the borrower. The Motilal Oswal Balanced Advantage Fund's debt portion's allocation by credit quality is given below

Holding Name	Percentage of Portfolio
GOI	3.36%
Cholamandalam Investment and Finance Company Ltd.	2.71%
Maharashtra State	1.25%

Question 9

What is the risk level of Motilal Oswal Balanced Advantage Fund?

Accepted Answer

This is a Dynamic Asset Allocation fund comes with Very High risk.

Question 10

Is there any lock-in period in Motilal Oswal Balanced Advantage Fund?

Accepted Answer

No, this fund does not have any lock-in period.

Question 11

How do I invest in Motilal Oswal Balanced Advantage Fund Regular-Growth?

Accepted Answer

Motilal Oswal Balanced Advantage Fund Regular-Growth is the regular plan of the fund. For this plan of you pay 2.23% as annual charges. On the other hand if you go for the direct plan available on ET Money, you pay 0.94%. That's 1.29% less.

Regular plans charge more because when you buy them, the fund pays commission to the agent. This is an additional expense for the fund and to cover this expense, the fund takes a bigger share from the returns generated by your investments.

So, the lower annual cost of the direct plan means you will earn 1.29% if you opt for direct plan of Motilal Oswal Balanced Advantage Fund

Question 12

How can I redeem my investments in Motilal Oswal Balanced Advantage Fund?

Accepted Answer

Redeeming your investments in Motilal Oswal Balanced Advantage Fund is super easy. If you have invested in this fund via ET Money, just login into the app, go to the investment section and put the redemption request.

If you have invested in Motilal Oswal Balanced Advantage Fund from anywhere else, you can go to the fund house website and put a request through it.

Expense ratio	2.23% as on Aug 31, 2025
Plan type	Regular
Exit load	1.0% Exit load of 1%, if redeemed within 365 days.!
AUM (Fund size)	₹923 Cr
Lock-in Period	Nil
Age	9 yrs since Sep 06, 2016
Benchmark	CRISIL Hybrid 50+50 Moderate Index
Min. investment	SIP: ₹500 & Lumpsum: ₹500
Risk	Very High

Period	This fund	Category average
1 Month	3.24%	0.03%
3 Months	7.1%	0.74%
6 Months	18.16%	9.72%
1 Year	-11.98%	1.0%
2 Years	4.36%	12.25%
3 Years	8.88%	11.72%
4 Years	6.79%	9.74%
5 Years	8.57%	13.04%
7 Years	7.53%	10.13%

Fund name	ETM Rank	AUM	Fund age	Expense ratio
Motilal Oswal Balanced Advantage Fund	N.A.	923 Cr	9 yrs	2.23%
ICICI Prudential Balanced Advantage Fund	N.A.	62,528 Cr	18 yrs 10 m	1.44%
Tata Balanced Advantage Fund	N.A.	10,227 Cr	6 yrs 7 m	1.71%
Franklin India Dynamic Asset Allocation FoF	N.A.	1,314 Cr	21 yrs 10 m	2.01%
Nippon India Balanced Advantage Fund	N.A.	9,190 Cr	20 yrs 10 m	1.74%
Axis Balanced Advantage Fund	N.A.	3,431 Cr	8 yrs 1 m	1.92%

Fund name	1M	6M	1Y	3Y	5Y	10Y
Motilal Oswal Balanced Advantage Fund	3.24%	18.16%	-11.98%	8.88%	8.57%	N.A.
ICICI Prudential Balanced Advantage Fund	1.32%	11.01%	5.77%	12.93%	14.37%	11.45%
Tata Balanced Advantage Fund	-0.25%	7.51%	-0.05%	10.49%	12.57%	7.34%
Franklin India Dynamic Asset Allocation FoF	-0.3%	8.19%	2.55%	13.12%	18.34%	10.42%
Nippon India Balanced Advantage Fund	0.53%	9.71%	1.93%	11.87%	13.47%	10.64%
Axis Balanced Advantage Fund	0.05%	7.55%	1.56%	13.09%	13.08%	7.52%

Fund name	Std. deviation	Beta	Sharpe	Sortino
Motilal Oswal Balanced Advantage Fund	13.46	0.97	0.21	0.27
ICICI Prudential Balanced Advantage Fund	5.54	0.55	1.06	1.62
Tata Balanced Advantage Fund	6.59	0.67	0.55	0.88
Franklin India Dynamic Asset Allocation FoF	6.49	0.63	0.95	1.5
Nippon India Balanced Advantage Fund	7.02	0.71	0.69	1.08
Axis Balanced Advantage Fund	7.64	0.75	0.78	1.32

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ET Money rank

Alpha	-2.52 vs. 2.63 Underperformed at beating benchmark
Sharpe	0.21 vs. 2.91 Poor risk-adjusted returns
Beta	0.97 vs. 0.65 More sensitive to market's ups & downs
Standard deviation	13.46 vs. 5.63 More volatile performance

Fund AUM	923 Cr as on May 31, 2025
Scheme document	View Scheme Document

No. of schemes	47 view all schemes
Total AUM	1,09,736 Cr as on Jun 30, 2025
Address	Motilal Oswal Towers - 10th Floor, Rahimtullah Sayani Road, Opposite Parel ST Depot, Prabhadevi, Mumbai, 400025
Phone	022-39804238 / 1800-200-6626

Sector	Percentage of Portfolio
Technology	18.65%
Capital Goods	13.54%
Materials	10.92%
Financial	9.79%
Communication	7.04%
Healthcare	6.23%
Consumer Discretionary	6.07%
Services	5.34%
Consumer Staples	0.96%

Credit Quality	Percentage of Portfolio
Cash & Call Money	23.69%
Others	7.5475816%
SOV	4.61268419%