Q: What are the returns of SBI Banking & Financial Services Fund?

The SBI Banking & Financial Services Fund is a 10 yrs 6 m old fund and has delivered average annual returns of 14.28% since inception. SBI Banking & Financial Services Fund Returns 1-Year 3-Year 5-Year 10-Year Since Inception 9.84% 17.43% 20.89% 17.04% 14.28%

Question 1

What is the current NAV of SBI Banking & Financial Services Fund?

Accepted Answer

The current Net Asset Value (NAV) of the SBI Banking & Financial Services Fund - Direct Growth plan is approximately ₹41.6954 as of Sep 03, 2025.

Question 2

What are the returns of SBI Banking & Financial Services Fund?

Accepted Answer

The SBI Banking & Financial Services Fund is a 10 yrs 6 m old fund and has delivered average annual returns of 14.28% since inception.

SBI Banking & Financial Services Fund Returns

1-Year	3-Year	5-Year	10-Year	Since Inception
9.84%	17.43%	20.89%	17.04%	14.28%

Question 3

How much does SBI Banking & Financial Services Fund charge as the expense ratio?

Accepted Answer

The SBI Banking & Financial Services Fund - Direct Growth has an expense ratio of 1.79%, 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 SBI Banking & Financial Services Fund?

Accepted Answer

The SBI Banking & Financial Services Fund currently has assets under management (AUM) or fund size valued at approximately ₹7,650 Crs crore as of Jun 30, 2025.

Question 5

What are the top stock holdings of SBI Banking & Financial Services Fund?

Accepted Answer

The SBI Banking & Financial Services Fund has invested the majority of its money in the stocks of the following companies -

Company	Percentage of Portfolio
HDFC Bank Ltd.	20.34%
State Bank of India	8.23%
Kotak Mahindra Bank Ltd.	8.18%
ICICI Bank Ltd.	7.78%
Axis Bank Ltd.	4.98%
SBI Life Insurance Company Ltd.	3.54%
Max Financial Services Ltd.	3.52%
HDFC Life Insurance Co Ltd.	3.33%
Bajaj Finserv Ltd.	3.23%
Aptus Value Housing Finance India Ltd.	2.88%

Question 6

What are the top sectors SBI Banking & Financial Services Fund has invested in?

Accepted Answer

The SBI Banking & Financial Services Fund has primarily invested in the following sectors

Company	Percentage of Portfolio
HDFC Bank Ltd.	20.34%
State Bank of India	8.23%
Kotak Mahindra Bank Ltd.	8.18%
ICICI Bank Ltd.	7.78%
Axis Bank Ltd.	4.98%
SBI Life Insurance Company Ltd.	3.54%
Max Financial Services Ltd.	3.52%
HDFC Life Insurance Co Ltd.	3.33%
Bajaj Finserv Ltd.	3.23%
Aptus Value Housing Finance India Ltd.	2.88%

Question 7

What is the risk level of SBI Banking & Financial Services Fund?

Accepted Answer

This is a Sectoral-banking fund comes with Very High risk.

Question 8

Is there any lock-in period in SBI Banking & Financial Services Fund?

Accepted Answer

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

Question 9

How do I invest in SBI Banking & Financial Services Fund Regular-Growth?

Accepted Answer

SBI Banking & Financial Services Fund Regular-Growth is the regular plan of the fund. For this plan of you pay 1.79% as annual charges. On the other hand if you go for the direct plan available on ET Money, you pay 0.77%. That's 1.02% 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 1.02% if you opt for direct plan of SBI Banking & Financial Services Fund

Question 10

How can I redeem my investments in SBI Banking & Financial Services Fund?

Accepted Answer

Redeeming your investments in SBI Banking & Financial Services 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 SBI Banking & Financial Services Fund from anywhere else, you can go to the fund house website and put a request through it.

Expense ratio	1.79% as on Aug 31, 2025
Plan type	Regular
Exit load	0.5% Exit load of 0.50% if redeemed within 30 days.!
AUM (Fund size)	₹7,650 Cr
Lock-in Period	Nil
Age	10 yrs 6 m since Feb 11, 2015
Benchmark	NIFTY Financial Services TRI
Min. investment	SIP: ₹500 & Lumpsum: ₹5000
Risk	Very High
Short term capital gains (STCG)	Returns taxed at 20% if you redeem before 1 year
Long term capital gains (LTCG)	After 1 year, returns above ₹1.25 lakh in a financial year are taxed at 12.5%

Period	This fund	Category average
1 Month	-0.89%	-1.66%
3 Months	1.38%	-0.99%
6 Months	16.52%	14.61%
1 Year	9.84%	4.79%
2 Years	21.56%	16.07%
3 Years	17.43%	15.94%
4 Years	13.62%	12.49%
5 Years	20.89%	20.97%
7 Years	13.55%	12.0%
10 Years	17.04%	14.52%

Fund name	ETM Rank	AUM	Fund age	Expense ratio
SBI Banking & Financial Services Fund	N.A.	7,650 Cr	10 yrs 6 m	1.79%
Sundaram Financial Services Opportunities Fund	N.A.	1,548 Cr	17 yrs 4 m	2.11%
Invesco India Financial Services Fund	N.A.	1,392 Cr	17 yrs 3 m	2.13%
Nippon India Banking & Financial Services Fund	N.A.	7,160 Cr	22 yrs 4 m	1.85%
Tata Banking and Financial Services Fund	N.A.	2,797 Cr	9 yrs 9 m	1.91%

Fund name	1M	6M	1Y	3Y	5Y	10Y
SBI Banking & Financial Services Fund	-0.89%	16.52%	9.84%	17.43%	20.89%	17.04%
Sundaram Financial Services Opportunities Fund	-3.23%	9.53%	-2.1%	16.24%	21.17%	14.27%
Invesco India Financial Services Fund	-2.39%	16.94%	4.55%	19.15%	21.32%	15.7%
Nippon India Banking & Financial Services Fund	-1.73%	12.96%	4.05%	16.48%	24.29%	14.23%
Tata Banking and Financial Services Fund	-1.32%	14.27%	5.78%	16.37%	19.6%	15.29%

Fund name	Std. deviation	Beta	Sharpe	Sortino
SBI Banking & Financial Services Fund	11.89	0.81	0.87	1.84
Sundaram Financial Services Opportunities Fund	13.28	0.91	0.71	1.46
Invesco India Financial Services Fund	12.9	0.83	0.91	1.55
Nippon India Banking & Financial Services Fund	12.1	0.84	0.8	1.66
Tata Banking and Financial Services Fund	13.16	0.91	0.73	2.02

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ET Money rank

Alpha	6.43 vs. 4.6 Higher outperformance against benchmark
Sharpe	0.87 vs. 3.54 Poor risk-adjusted returns
Beta	0.81 vs. 0.69 More sensitive to market's ups & downs
Standard deviation	11.89 vs. 7.75 More volatile performance

Fund AUM	7,650 Cr as on Apr 30, 2025
Scheme document	View Scheme Document

No. of schemes	71 view all schemes
Total AUM	11,45,315 Cr as on Jun 30, 2025
Address	9th Floor-Crescenzo, C-38 & 39- G Block, Bandra-Kurla Complex, Bandra (East) Mumbai, 400051
Phone	022-61793000 / 1800-425-5425

Fund name	ETM Rank	AUM	1Y	5Y
SBI PSU Fund	N.A.	5,035 Cr	-7.95%	29.84%
SBI Contra Fund	N.A.	44,069 Cr	-4.75%	29.44%
SBI Infrastructure Fund	N.A.	4,872 Cr	-11.07%	26.61%
SBI Magnum Midcap Fund	N.A.	21,512 Cr	-6.67%	25.39%
SBI Long Term Equity Fund	N.A.	28,506 Cr	-3.13%	25.04%
SBI Small Cap Fund	N.A.	31,790 Cr	-6.21%	24.43%

Sector	Percentage of Portfolio
Financial	80.02000000000001%
Insurance	9.379999999999999%
Services	3.11%