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LIC MF Multi Asset Allocation Fund

Hybrid Scheme - Multi Asset Allocation Direct plan, growth benchmark: 65% Nifty 500 TRI + 25% Nifty Composite Debt Index + 10% Price of Domestic Gold. launched 24 Jan 2025 open-ended

At a glance

the fund as it stands today, from public disclosures

NAV, 21 Sep 2026
₹12.53
−0.09% since 18 Sep 2026, the previous NAV
1 year
6.6%
return
3 years
not enough history
5 years
not enough history
Since launch
15.3%
a year, over 1.6 years
Assets (AUM)
₹1,003 Cr
Aug 2026 factsheet
Expense ratio, Direct / Regular
0.57% / 1.78%
a year, as of Aug 2026
Holdings
66
top ten are 39% of the fund · Aug 2026
Disclosed history
1.6 yrs
Feb 2025 – Aug 2026 · 4 of 11 checks could run
Fund managers
Pratik Shroff · since at least Feb 2026

As the Aug 2026 factsheet printed it: portfolio turnover 0.75×. Exit load and minimum investment are not yet extracted from the scheme documents.

What only Anveshan can tell you

measured from the disclosures, not quoted from a brochure — each links to how it was done

P5Cost, measured

Regular plan costs 1.71% a year more than Direct

₹65,525 on ₹1 lakh over ten years. Same portfolio, two prices — the difference is what the Regular plan's distribution costs you, read from the two NAVs.

See how it is measured →
P7Whose record

Run by Pratik Shroff for at least 7 mo

the factsheet archive starts Feb 2026, so this is a floor. A return earned before they arrived is the house's record, not theirs — the tenure table shows the fund against its category over exactly their months.

Pratik Shroff's other funds →
NAVTracking gap

Not replicated: the portfolio cannot be priced line by line in this build.

Each day, the NAV the fund published against the NAV its last disclosed portfolio would have produced at that day's prices. A gap that opens and stays is a change the fund has made and not disclosed yet.

See the daily gap →
P4Consistency

Not measurable yet: needs three years of NAV and a category median.

Take every three-year stretch since the fund had a NAV, one starting each month, and ask two things of each: did it beat the typical fund in its category, and by how much. Counting the wins tells you the record does not depend on when you happen to look; averaging the margin tells you whether winning often was worth anything, because four small wins do not pay for one large loss.

See every window →

headline and record disagree One check found the headline number and the underlying record pointing different ways — marked on the cards below.

NAV and drawdown

Direct plan, growth class · as of 21 Sep 2026

Month-end NAV, indexed to 100 at Feb 2025

100110120130Feb 2025Jul 2025Dec 2025May 2026Sep 2026Feb 2025: NAV ₹9.79Mar 2025: NAV ₹10.50Apr 2025: NAV ₹10.71May 2025: NAV ₹11.01Jun 2025: NAV ₹11.30Jul 2025: NAV ₹11.26Aug 2025: NAV ₹11.18Sep 2025: NAV ₹11.67Oct 2025: NAV ₹12.15Nov 2025: NAV ₹12.21Dec 2025: NAV ₹12.43Jan 2026: NAV ₹12.52Feb 2026: NAV ₹12.41Mar 2026: NAV ₹11.13Apr 2026: NAV ₹12.04May 2026: NAV ₹12.23Jun 2026: NAV ₹12.17Jul 2026: NAV ₹12.35Aug 2026: NAV ₹12.67Sep 2026: NAV ₹12.53
100110120130Feb 2025Jul 2025Dec 2025May 2026Sep 2026Feb 2025: NAV ₹9.79Mar 2025: NAV ₹10.50Apr 2025: NAV ₹10.71May 2025: NAV ₹11.01Jun 2025: NAV ₹11.30Jul 2025: NAV ₹11.26Aug 2025: NAV ₹11.18Sep 2025: NAV ₹11.67Oct 2025: NAV ₹12.15Nov 2025: NAV ₹12.21Dec 2025: NAV ₹12.43Jan 2026: NAV ₹12.52Feb 2026: NAV ₹12.41Mar 2026: NAV ₹11.13Apr 2026: NAV ₹12.04May 2026: NAV ₹12.23Jun 2026: NAV ₹12.17Jul 2026: NAV ₹12.35Aug 2026: NAV ₹12.67Sep 2026: NAV ₹12.53
100110120130Feb 2025Jul 2025Dec 2025May 2026Sep 2026Feb 2025: NAV ₹9.79Mar 2025: NAV ₹10.50Apr 2025: NAV ₹10.71May 2025: NAV ₹11.01Jun 2025: NAV ₹11.30Jul 2025: NAV ₹11.26Aug 2025: NAV ₹11.18Sep 2025: NAV ₹11.67Oct 2025: NAV ₹12.15Nov 2025: NAV ₹12.21Dec 2025: NAV ₹12.43Jan 2026: NAV ₹12.52Feb 2026: NAV ₹12.41Mar 2026: NAV ₹11.13Apr 2026: NAV ₹12.04May 2026: NAV ₹12.23Jun 2026: NAV ₹12.17Jul 2026: NAV ₹12.35Aug 2026: NAV ₹12.67Sep 2026: NAV ₹12.53

20 month-ends · ₹9.79 → ₹12.53, 1.3× since Feb 2025

Deepest fall (max drawdown)
−13.5%
29 Jan 2026 → 23 Mar 2026
Worst month
−10.3%
Mar 2026
Days to recover
155
from the deepest trough back to the old high

Drawdown is measured on the last year of daily NAV; trailing returns are CAGR of the direct growth class. A single end date decides them — the consistency card (P4) below is the record that does not, and it reports both how often the fund beat its category and by how much, because the first without the second can point the wrong way.

Holdings

Aug 2026 disclosure · 66 lines · when each was first held and the change over the last three disclosures

#HoldingSectorWeightFirst heldHeld for3-mo change
1 LIC Mutual Fund
mutual fund unit
— 15.07% Mar 2026 6 mo -0.77%
2 Aditya Birla Sun Life Mutual Fund
mutual fund unit
— 3.88% Feb 2025 1.6 yrs +0.88%
3 ICICI Bank Ltd.
equity
Banks 3.78% Jan 2026 8 mo +0.38%
4 InterGlobe Aviation Ltd.
equity
Transport Services 2.53% Feb 2026 7 mo +0.31%
5 Axis Bank Ltd.
equity
Banks 2.50% Feb 2025 1.6 yrs +0.39%
6 Larsen & Toubro Ltd.
equity
Construction 2.48% Feb 2025 1.6 yrs -0.13%
7 7.83% Tata Capital Housing Finance Ltd. **
corporate bond
— 2.48% Aug 2026 1 mo +2.48%
8 SML Mahindra Ltd.
equity
Agricultural, Commercial & Construction Vehicles 2.31% Jun 2026 3 mo +2.31%
9 Multi Commodity Exchange Of India Ltd.
equity
Capital Markets 2.24% Jun 2026 3 mo +2.24%
10 Bharti Airtel Ltd.
equity
Telecom - Services 2.09% Aug 2025 1.1 yrs -0.40%
11 Karur Vysya Bank Ltd.
equity
Banks 1.99% Jun 2026 3 mo +1.99%
12 Jindal Stainless Ltd.
equity
Ferrous Metals 1.98% May 2026 4 mo +0.29%
13 State Bank of India
equity
Banks 1.93% Feb 2025 1.6 yrs +1.04%
14 Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd.
equity
Pharmaceuticals & Biotechnology 1.85% Feb 2025 1.6 yrs +0.10%
15 Godfrey Phillips India Ltd.
equity
Cigarettes & Tobacco Products 1.74% Sep 2025 1.0 yrs -0.23%
16 Cohance Lifesciences Ltd.
equity
Pharmaceuticals & Biotechnology 1.72% Jul 2026 2 mo +1.72%
17 PB Fintech Ltd.
equity
Financial Technology (Fintech) 1.72% Jul 2026 2 mo +1.72%
18 INDO-MIM Ltd.
equity
Industrial Manufacturing 1.68% Jul 2026 2 mo +1.68%
19 Britannia Industries Ltd.
equity
Food Products 1.59% Feb 2026 7 mo +0.50%
20 Vishal Mega Mart Ltd
equity
Retailing 1.57% Jun 2025 1.3 yrs -0.23%
21 7.39% Indian Railway Finance Corporation Ltd. **
corporate bond
— 1.51% Aug 2026 1 mo +1.51%
22 Persistent Systems Ltd.
equity
IT - Software 1.48% Jun 2026 3 mo +1.48%
23 Aster DM Quality Care Ltd.
equity
Healthcare Services 1.47% Aug 2026 1 mo +1.47%
24 Siemens Energy India Ltd.
equity
Electrical Equipment 1.40% May 2026 4 mo +0.30%
25 Bank of Baroda
equity
Banks 1.40% Apr 2025 1.4 yrs -0.24%
Showing 1–25 of 66 · page 1 of 3 rows per page102550all

Largest sectors, Aug 2026 · grey: a year ago

Banks11.6% · 7.7%
Pharmaceuticals & Biotechnology5.5% · 4.5%
Agricultural, Commercial & Construction Vehicles4.4%
Capital Markets4.2%
Transport Services3.8%
IT - Software3.5% · 2.9%
Ferrous Metals3.1%
Retailing2.7%
share of the book05%10%15%

By market cap, Aug 2026

Large cap30.4%
Mid cap22.1%
Small / micro cap16.0%
Cash & equivalents2.2%
Other29.3%
share of the book025%50%75%100%

Composition by market cap, month by month — what the fund actually held against what its label says

Large cap: 28% → 30%Mid cap: 9% → 22%Small / micro: 6% → 16%Cash & other: 35% → 2%25%50%75%Feb 2025Dec 2025Aug 2026
Large cap: 28% → 30%Mid cap: 9% → 22%Small / micro: 6% → 16%Cash & other: 35% → 2%25%50%75%Large cap 30%Mid cap 22%Small / micro 16%Cash & other 2%Feb 2025Dec 2025Aug 2026
Large cap: 28% → 30%Mid cap: 9% → 22%Small / micro: 6% → 16%Cash & other: 35% → 2%25%50%75%Large cap 30%Mid cap 22%Small / micro 16%Cash & other 2%Feb 2025Dec 2025Aug 2026
  • Large cap 30%
  • Mid cap 22%
  • Small / micro 16%
  • Cash & other 2%

The seven checks, in full

each: the plain claim, where it sits in the category, and — folded — how it is measured and the case against. A flag fires only where headline and record disagree.

P4 Consistency, not a single end date
Not measurable yet. Needs at least three years of month-end NAV and a category median; not computed for this fund yet.

What this means. Take every three-year stretch since the fund had a NAV, one starting each month, and ask two things of each: did it beat the typical fund in its category, and by how much. Counting the wins tells you the record does not depend on when you happen to look; averaging the margin tells you whether winning often was worth anything, because four small wins do not pay for one large loss.

How it is measured, and the case against

A fund that beats its category in most rolling three-year windows has a record; one that beats it in a few has an end date. How often it won and by how much are different questions, and this card answers both, because a fund can win four windows in five and still be behind across all five.

How often has it beaten its category, across every window?

Why this might matterRolling every three-year window forward month by month gives hundreds of overlapping observations instead of one. A single end date decides a headline five-year figure; the share of windows won cannot be flattered by when you happen to look. The average margin across every window is that share and the payoff multiplied together — win share x average beat plus loss share x average shortfall is exactly the average — so a high share bought with a few ruinous windows cannot hide behind the count.
Why it might notRolling windows overlap heavily, so they are not independent observations and the true sample is far smaller than the count suggests — the card says how many non-overlapping windows the same span holds, and it is usually a handful. A fund that changed manager or mandate carries a record that is only partly its own. The average margin is only as meaningful as the category: where a category is a grab bag (“Other ETFs” holds gold beside equity), a large shortfall says the comparison is wrong, not that the fund is. And none of this forecasts: our own study found the share of windows won does not predict the next three years, and weighting it by payoff gives no reason to think otherwise.
P5 Cost, measured

Regular plan costs 1.71% a year more than Direct

₹65,525 on ₹1 lakh over ten years

What this means. The Regular and Direct plans hold the same portfolio; the Regular one pays a distributor out of your money every day. The gap between the two NAVs is that cost, measured from the NAVs rather than quoted from a document.

on ₹1,00,000 over ten years₹65,525Direct vs Regular, annualised16.9% vs 15.2%measured over1.58 years
How it is measured, and the case against

The Direct plan is the same portfolio, priced differently; the divergence of the two NAVs is the cost, measured rather than quoted.

What does the Regular plan actually cost against its Direct twin?

Why this might matterSame manager, same holdings, same day. The gap between the two NAV series is the one number on this page that is knowable today rather than hoped for, and it compounds for as long as the units are held.
Why it might notA Regular plan buys advice. If that advice stops someone selling in a drawdown it can be worth more than the fee — the cost is visible and the behavioural saving is not, which makes this comparison unfair in exactly one direction.
P1 Churn, and what it bought

Turns over 96% of the portfolio a year

−0.03 pts of excess return per unit of turnover

What this means. How much of the portfolio was bought and sold in a year, computed from what the fund disclosed each month. Trading costs something certain; the extra return it is meant to buy is not.

excess return per unit of turnover−0.03 pts
How it is measured, and the case against

Turnover measured from consecutive disclosures — Σ|Δweight|/2 — costs something certain; the excess return it is meant to buy is not.

Is the trading paying for itself?

Why this might matterAMCs define their own turnover figure inconsistently. This one is computed from what the fund disclosed month to month, so two funds are comparable on it. Read it beside the excess return per unit of turnover.
Why it might notTurnover computed from month-end snapshots misses everything bought and sold inside a month, and a fund forced to sell by redemptions is charged for churn it did not choose.
P2 Conviction or inertia

Typical top-10 holding kept 8 months

What this means. How long a typical top-10 position has been in the top ten. Long-held positions are a decision; a top ten that changes every quarter is a reaction.

active sharenot yet computable — needs index constituent files
How it is measured, and the case against

The median months a top-10 position has been held separates a portfolio somebody chose from one that drifted.

How long does a top-10 position stay a top-10 position?

Why this might matterConcentration is how a manager expresses conviction, and persistence is how long they keep it. Long-held positions with a rising weight are a decision; a top ten that turns over every quarter is a reaction.
Why it might notPersistence without active share is inertia: a portfolio of 166 names that tracks its category closely has diversified away the reason to pay for it. Active share needs index constituent files, which are not loaded yet.
P3 Hit rate of the top ten

4 of 10 top picks beat their peers over the next 6 months, and averaged 1.7 points behind them

130 positions judged, one disclosure at a time · ahead by 12.9 points when it won, behind by 12.5 when it lost

What this means. Take each month's ten largest holdings and check whether each one beat the typical stock its category holds over the next six months, and by how much. A blended return can hide two wins and eight losses; a count of wins can hide one position that lost half its value.

How often, and by how much. The count and the average agree. Ahead by 12.9 points in the 55 positions it won and behind by 12.5 in the 75 it lost, so the average across all 130 is −1.7 points. The worst position was INE399G01023 at the Mar 2025 disclosure, 37.9 points behind.

positions judged130beat the median stock55average across every position−1.72 pts · median −3.07when ahead, by how much+12.93 pts over 55 positionswhen behind, by how much−12.47 pts over 75 positionsworst position−37.88 pts, INE399G01023 at the Mar 2025 disclosurebest position+53.05 pts, INE062A01020 at the Aug 2025 disclosure
How it is measured, and the case against

A manager's largest bets, judged one by one over the following six months, say more than the fund's blended return — and how far each one beat or missed the median stock says more than counting how many did.

Of its top-10 positions, how often did they beat the category-median stock?

Why this might matterA fund can beat its category on two positions and lose on eight; the hit rate shows the pattern the aggregate hides. The average margin then shows what the hit rate hides in turn: six winners worth a point each do not pay for four losers worth ten, and only the margin says which happened.
Why it might notSix months is short, sizing matters more than counting, and a manager who is right on the biggest position and wrong on nine small ones has done their job — the margins here are unweighted, so they answer the counting question better, not the sizing one. Overlapping disclosures judge the same position again each month it is held, so one long-held winner is counted many times. And this is a description of six months already past, not a forecast of the next six.
P6 Size against edge

₹1,003 Cr, 19th percentile in category; 94% of growth came from inflows

smaller than 81% of the funds in its category (13 funds) · AUM Mar 2025 → Aug 2026 · Regular plan expense ratio 2.38%

What this means. Where the fund sits by size in its category, and how much of its growth was money arriving rather than the portfolio compounding. A very large fund cannot buy what a small one can; size should buy a lower fee in return.

median holding weight, trendrisingexpense ratio, Regular / Direct2.38% / 1.07% · category median 2.12%AUM, Mar 2025 → Aug 2026₹239 Cr → ₹1,003 Cr (+175% a year)of that change, from flows rather than returns94% net inflows · NAV +21% over the window

Assets under management, ₹ crore, Mar 2025 – Aug 2026

2505007501000Mar 2025Dec 2025Apr 2026Jun 2026Aug 2026Mar 2025: ₹239 Cr (amfi-aaum)Jun 2025: ₹560 Cr (amfi-aaum)Sep 2025: ₹672 Cr (amfi-aaum)Dec 2025: ₹820 Cr (amfi-aaum)Feb 2026: ₹960 CrMar 2026: ₹911 CrApr 2026: ₹922 CrMay 2026: ₹962 CrJun 2026: ₹965 CrJul 2026: ₹969 CrAug 2026: ₹1,003 Cr
2505007501000Mar 2025Dec 2025Apr 2026Jun 2026Aug 2026Mar 2025: ₹239 Cr (amfi-aaum)Jun 2025: ₹560 Cr (amfi-aaum)Sep 2025: ₹672 Cr (amfi-aaum)Dec 2025: ₹820 Cr (amfi-aaum)Feb 2026: ₹960 CrMar 2026: ₹911 CrApr 2026: ₹922 CrMay 2026: ₹962 CrJun 2026: ₹965 CrJul 2026: ₹969 CrAug 2026: ₹1,003 Cr
2505007501000Mar 2025Dec 2025Apr 2026Jun 2026Aug 2026Mar 2025: ₹239 Cr (amfi-aaum)Jun 2025: ₹560 Cr (amfi-aaum)Sep 2025: ₹672 Cr (amfi-aaum)Dec 2025: ₹820 Cr (amfi-aaum)Feb 2026: ₹960 CrMar 2026: ₹911 CrApr 2026: ₹922 CrMay 2026: ₹962 CrJun 2026: ₹965 CrJul 2026: ₹969 CrAug 2026: ₹1,003 Cr

11 points · months without a factsheet figure use AMFI's quarterly average · Regular-plan expense ratio 2.31% in Feb 2025 → 2.38% in Sep 2026

How it is measured, and the case against

Past a certain size the smaller end of a mandate becomes unreachable, and the fund starts to look like its index; what size should buy in return is a lower expense ratio.

Has the fund outgrown the universe it invests in — and did size buy a lower fee?

Why this might matterSize narrows what the manager can meaningfully hold and should lower what the investor pays. Read the AUM history beside the expense ratio: a fund that has tripled through inflows while its Regular-plan TER sits above the category median has kept the benefit of scale for the house. The flow decomposition says how much of the growth was money arriving rather than the portfolio compounding.
Why it might notScale funds research teams, and plenty of large funds have gone on compounding for decades. Inflows follow performance, so a fund growing fast is usually one that did well; the constraint is real but not automatically binding, and a TER is a ceiling the AMC can cut at any time.
P7 Whose record is this headline and record disagree

Run by Pratik Shroff for at least 7 mo

the factsheet archive starts Feb 2026, so this is a floor

What this means. How long the people running it now have been running it, read from the monthly factsheets. A five-year record earned under someone else is not evidence about these managers.

No category distribution for this measure yet.
running it nowPratik Shroff (since at least Feb 2026)share of the fund's life under the current teamnot knowable — the archive starts Feb 2026, so the tenure is a floorchanges of hands in the archivenone

Who ran it, month by month · factsheets through Sep 2026

2026Pratik ShroffPratik Shroff: Feb 2026 – now · fund manager · already there when the archive starts Feb 2025Sep 2026
2026Pratik ShroffPratik Shroff: Feb 2026 – now · fund manager · already there when the archive starts Feb 2025Sep 2026
2026Pratik ShroffPratik Shroff: Feb 2026 – now · fund manager · already there when the archive starts Feb 2025Sep 2026
running it nowearlier
ManagerRoleFromToFund vs category, those months3-yr stretches won in tenure
Pratik Shroff fund manager by Feb 2026† now 1.2% vs 1.5% (−0.24 pp) —

* dated by first appearance in the archive we hold, not by a date the factsheet printed. † already named on the first factsheet we hold: the stint is at least this long, and its start is not known. Co-managed months count for every manager named; a factsheet names the manager of record, not who made each call. All managers →

The 5-year figure covers most of the fund's entire life. This scheme is about 1.7 years old and a 5-year return is being displayed for it. That is effectively a since-inception number — it measures the period the fund happened to be launched into, and separates nothing from the manager's contribution.
How it is measured, and the case against

A record earned under different people is not evidence about these ones.

Does the displayed record predate the people running it?

Why this might matterA five-year figure on a fund whose longest-serving manager joined two years ago is the house's record more than the person's. The tenure here comes from what each monthly factsheet named, so a change of hands is dated to the month it was disclosed, and the fund's return against its category can be read over exactly those months.
Why it might notEvery fund is young once, and a short record is not a bad one. This says the number cannot bear the weight usually placed on it, not that the fund is worse than a peer.

Tracking gap

the NAV the fund published, against the NAV its last disclosed portfolio would have produced at each day's prices

No signal. About 31% of this fund is outside listed Indian equity — a foreign or derivative sleeve, or debt — and there are no daily prices to replicate it with. A wrong signal would be worse than none.

Share classes

latest NAV per AMFI code

PlanOptionNAVDate
direct
LIC MF Multi Asset Allocation Fund-Direct Plan-Growth
growth₹12.5321 Sep 2026
direct
LIC MF Multi Asset Allocation Fund-Direct Plan-IDCW
idcw₹12.5321 Sep 2026
regular
LIC MF Multi Asset Allocation Fund-Regular Plan-Growth
growth₹12.2421 Sep 2026
regular
LIC MF Multi Asset Allocation Fund-Regular Plan-IDCW
idcw₹12.2421 Sep 2026
The Direct / Regular gap, in rupees
Direct growth NAV
₹12.53
Regular growth NAV
₹12.24
NAV divergence to date
2.4% — same portfolio, priced differently
Regular costs more by
1.71% a year
On ₹1,00,000 over ten years
₹65,525

A Regular plan buys advice. The fee is visible and the behavioural saving is not; both are shown, neither is netted off.

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