ITI · Sectoral/ Thematic

ITI Business Cycle Fund

Equity Scheme - Sectoral/ Thematic Direct plan, growth benchmark: NIFTY 500 TRI launched 13 Feb 2026 open-ended

At a glance

the fund as it stands today, from public disclosures

NAV, 21 Sep 2026

₹10.93

+0.40% since 18 Sep 2026, the previous NAV

1 year

not enough history

3 years

not enough history

5 years

not enough history

Since launch

9.6%

a year, over 0.5 years

Assets (AUM)

₹116 Cr

Aug 2026 factsheet

Expense ratio, Direct / Regular

1.76% / 3.51%

a year, as of Aug 2026

Holdings

top ten are 23% of the fund · Aug 2026

Disclosed history

6 mo

Mar 2026 – Aug 2026 · 4 of 11 checks could run

Fund managers

Alok Ranjan · since at least Apr 2026Nilay Dalal · since at least Apr 2026

All managers →

What only Anveshan can tell you

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

P5Cost, measured

Cannot be measured: needs both a Direct and a Regular growth class.

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.

See how it is measured →

P7Whose record

Run by Alok Ranjan for at least 5 mo

with Nilay Dalal · the factsheet archive starts Apr 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.

Alok Ranjan's other funds →

NAVTracking gap

NAV sits 426 bp from its disclosed portfolio, but the replication is noisy

11 jumps since the last disclosure. We re-price the last disclosed portfolio every day and compare it with the NAV the fund published; a gap that opens and stays is a trade not yet disclosed.

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 Mar 2026

7 month-ends · ₹9.63 → ₹10.93, 1.1× since Mar 2026

Deepest fall (max drawdown)

−4.3%

7 May 2026 → 11 Jun 2026

Worst month

−0.1%

Jul 2026

Days to recover

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 · 76 lines · when each was first held and the change over the last three disclosures

#	Holding	Sector	Weight	First held	Held for	3-mo change
1	ICICI Bank Limited equity	Banks	3.69%	Mar 2026	6 mo	+0.23%
2	TREPS / cash equivalents Net Receivables / (Payables) · cash equivalent	—	2.92%	Mar 2026	6 mo	-1.25%
3	HDFC Bank Limited equity	Banks	2.85%	Mar 2026	6 mo	-0.94%
4	Bajaj Finance Limited equity	Finance	2.49%	Jul 2026	2 mo	+2.49%
5	Reliance Industries Limited equity	Petroleum Products	2.08%	Mar 2026	6 mo	-0.85%
6	State Bank of India equity	Banks	1.90%	Mar 2026	6 mo	-0.96%
7	Bajaj Auto Limited equity	Automobiles	1.90%	Aug 2026	1 mo	+1.90%
8	Titan Company Limited equity	Consumer Durables	1.89%	Mar 2026	6 mo	+0.26%
9	Shriram Finance Limited equity	Finance	1.72%	Mar 2026	6 mo	+0.96%
10	ESDS Software Solution Ltd equity	Miscellaneous	1.72%	Aug 2026	1 mo	+1.72%
11	Divi's Laboratories Limited equity	Pharmaceuticals & Biotechnology	1.58%	Jul 2026	2 mo	+1.58%
12	Grasim Industries Limited equity	Cement & Cement Products	1.55%	May 2026	4 mo	0.00%
13	Laurus Labs Limited equity	Pharmaceuticals & Biotechnology	1.54%	Apr 2026	5 mo	+0.20%
14	AU Small Finance Bank Limited equity	Banks	1.49%	May 2026	4 mo	+0.29%
15	Tech Mahindra Limited equity	IT - Software	1.49%	Aug 2026	1 mo	+1.49%
16	Turtlemint Fintech Solutions Limited equity	Financial Technology (Fintech)	1.48%	Jun 2026	3 mo	+1.48%
17	Hero MotoCorp Limited equity	Automobiles	1.48%	Aug 2026	1 mo	+1.48%
18	Apollo Hospitals Enterprise Limited equity	Healthcare Services	1.42%	May 2026	4 mo	+0.01%
19	Eternal Limited equity	Retailing	1.41%	Jul 2026	2 mo	+1.41%
20	LG Electronics India Ltd equity	Consumer Durables	1.39%	Aug 2026	1 mo	+1.39%
21	Nestle India Limited equity	Food Products	1.37%	Apr 2026	5 mo	-0.03%
22	Cholamandalam Investment and Finance Company Ltd equity	Finance	1.36%	Jun 2026	3 mo	+1.36%
23	Hindalco Industries Limited equity	Non - Ferrous Metals	1.34%	Mar 2026	6 mo	-0.14%
24	TVS Motor Company Limited equity	Automobiles	1.33%	Jul 2026	2 mo	+1.33%
25	SBI Funds Management Limited equity	Capital Markets	1.32%	Jul 2026	2 mo	+1.32%
26	Ajanta Pharma Limited equity	Pharmaceuticals & Biotechnology	1.32%	Mar 2026	6 mo	+0.07%
27	Oberoi Realty Limited equity	Realty	1.31%	Jul 2026	2 mo	+1.31%
28	Aurobindo Pharma Limited equity	Pharmaceuticals & Biotechnology	1.28%	Apr 2026	5 mo	+0.13%
29	IDFC First Bank Limited equity	Banks	1.28%	Jul 2026	2 mo	+1.28%
30	Poonawalla Fincorp Limited equity	Finance	1.28%	Aug 2026	1 mo	+1.28%
31	Pidilite Industries Limited equity	Chemicals & Petrochemicals	1.27%	Jul 2026	2 mo	+1.27%
32	Glenmark Pharmaceuticals Limited equity	Pharmaceuticals & Biotechnology	1.26%	Aug 2026	1 mo	+0.15%
33	Navin Fluorine International Limited equity	Chemicals & Petrochemicals	1.25%	May 2026	4 mo	+0.14%
34	L&T Finance Limited equity	Finance	1.25%	Jul 2026	2 mo	+1.25%
35	Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited equity	Electrical Equipment	1.25%	Apr 2026	5 mo	-0.02%
36	Neuland Laboratories Limited equity	Pharmaceuticals & Biotechnology	1.25%	Apr 2026	5 mo	+0.25%
37	Torrent Pharmaceuticals Limited equity	Pharmaceuticals & Biotechnology	1.23%	Jul 2026	2 mo	+1.23%
38	Hindustan Copper Limited equity	Non - Ferrous Metals	1.23%	Aug 2026	1 mo	+0.17%
39	Bharat Forge Limited equity	Auto Components	1.22%	Mar 2026	6 mo	0.00%
40	Solar Industries India Limited equity	Chemicals & Petrochemicals	1.21%	Apr 2026	5 mo	+0.02%
41	Affle 3i Limited equity	IT - Services	1.20%	Jul 2026	2 mo	+1.20%
42	Endurance Technologies Limited equity	Auto Components	1.18%	Aug 2026	1 mo	+1.18%
43	Delhivery Limited equity	Transport Services	1.16%	Jul 2026	2 mo	+1.16%
44	IPCA Laboratories Limited equity	Pharmaceuticals & Biotechnology	1.15%	Mar 2026	6 mo	-0.22%
45	Marico Limited equity	Agricultural Food & other Products	1.15%	Apr 2026	5 mo	-0.09%
46	Radico Khaitan Limited equity	Beverages	1.14%	Apr 2026	5 mo	-0.02%
47	Jubilant Ingrevia Limited equity	Chemicals & Petrochemicals	1.12%	Jul 2026	2 mo	+0.24%
48	Biocon Limited equity	Pharmaceuticals & Biotechnology	1.11%	Jun 2026	3 mo	+1.11%
49	FSN E-Commerce Ventures Limited equity	Retailing	1.11%	Apr 2026	5 mo	+0.21%
50	RBL Bank Limited equity	Banks	1.11%	Mar 2026	6 mo	-0.35%
51	Gujarat Fluorochemicals Limited equity	Chemicals & Petrochemicals	1.10%	Jul 2026	2 mo	+1.10%
52	Dr. Lal Path Labs Limited equity	Healthcare Services	1.10%	Jun 2026	3 mo	+1.10%
53	Yes Bank Limited equity	Banks	1.09%	Jun 2026	3 mo	+1.09%
54	ABB India Limited equity	Electrical Equipment	1.09%	Jun 2026	3 mo	+1.09%
55	Infosys Limited equity	IT - Software	1.08%	Mar 2026	6 mo	-0.12%
56	Redington Limited equity	Commercial Services & Supplies	1.08%	Jul 2026	2 mo	+1.08%
57	Elgi Equipments Limited equity	Industrial Products	1.08%	Jun 2026	3 mo	+1.08%
58	Data Patterns (India) Limited equity	Aerospace & Defense	1.07%	Mar 2026	6 mo	+0.04%
59	Krishna Institute Of Medical Sciences Limited equity	Healthcare Services	1.04%	Jun 2026	3 mo	+1.04%
60	Finolex Cables Limited equity	Industrial Products	1.03%	Apr 2026	5 mo	+0.02%
61	IIFL Finance Limited equity	Finance	1.03%	Jun 2026	3 mo	+1.03%
62	City Union Bank Limited equity	Banks	1.00%	Apr 2026	5 mo	+0.09%
63	Aarti Industries Limited equity	Chemicals & Petrochemicals	1.00%	Aug 2026	1 mo	+1.00%
64	Aster DM Quality Care Limited equity	Healthcare Services	1.00%	Apr 2026	5 mo	-0.04%
65	Steel Authority of India Limited equity	Ferrous Metals	0.99%	Apr 2026	5 mo	-0.13%
66	Adani Power Limited equity	Power	0.98%	Apr 2026	5 mo	-0.32%
67	Syrma SGS Technology Limited equity	Industrial Manufacturing	0.97%	Apr 2026	5 mo	-0.07%
68	DCB Bank Limited equity	Banks	0.97%	Apr 2026	5 mo	+0.13%
69	Usha Martin Limited equity	Industrial Products	0.96%	Apr 2026	5 mo	-0.09%
70	Central Mine Planning & Design Institute Limited equity	Commercial Services & Supplies	0.91%	May 2026	4 mo	-0.10%
71	NMDC Limited equity	Minerals & Mining	0.87%	Apr 2026	5 mo	-0.07%
72	CreditAccess Grameen Limited equity	Finance	0.87%	Apr 2026	5 mo	-0.02%
73	The Great Eastern Shipping Company Limited equity	Transport Services	0.85%	Apr 2026	5 mo	-0.15%
74	BOROSIL RENEWABLES LIMITED equity	Industrial Products	0.81%	Jul 2026	2 mo	+0.81%
75	National Aluminium Company Limited equity	Non - Ferrous Metals	0.51%	Mar 2026	6 mo	-0.10%
76	360 One WAM Limited equity	Capital Markets	0.49%	Aug 2026	1 mo	+0.49%

Showing 1–76 of 76 rows per page10 25 50all

Largest sectors, Aug 2026

Banks15.4%

Pharmaceuticals & Biotechnology11.7%

Finance10.0%

Chemicals & Petrochemicals7.0%

Automobiles4.7%

Healthcare Services4.6%

Industrial Products3.9%

Consumer Durables3.3%

share of the book05%10%15%20%

By market cap, Aug 2026

Large cap40.1%

Mid cap29.9%

Small / micro cap27.1%

Cash & equivalents2.9%

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 40%
Mid cap 30%
Small / micro 27%
Cash & other 3%

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

Not measurable yet. Needs a Direct and a Regular growth class with overlapping NAV history.

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.

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 299% of the portfolio a year

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.

299% a year

costliest in categorycheapest in category

5th percentile · bottom decile of 214 funds · category median 83%

excess return per unit of turnoverneeds the category 1-year median — not computed yet

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 6 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.

6 months

lowest in categoryhighest in category

5th percentile · bottom decile of 215 funds · category median 23 months

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

Not measurable yet. Detector not yet written: needs each disclosure's top ten joined to six months of forward prices. Holdings and prices are in hand.

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 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

₹116 Cr, 3rd percentile in category; 97% of growth came from inflows

smaller than 97% of the funds in its category (216 funds) · AUM Mar 2026 → Aug 2026 · Regular plan expense ratio 3.42%

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.

3th percentile by AUM

largestsmallest

97th percentile · top decile of 216 funds

expense ratio, Regular / Direct3.42% / 1.66% · category median 2.38%AUM, Mar 2026 → Aug 2026₹25 Cr → ₹116 Crof that change, from flows rather than returns97% net inflows · NAV +11% over the window

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

6 points · months without a factsheet figure use AMFI's quarterly average · Regular-plan expense ratio 2.34% in Mar 2026 → 3.42% 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 Alok Ranjan for at least 5 mo

with Nilay Dalal · the factsheet archive starts Apr 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 nowAlok Ranjan (since at least Apr 2026), Nilay Dalal (since at least Apr 2026)share of the fund's life under the current teamnot knowable — the archive starts Apr 2026, so the tenure is a floorchanges of hands in the archivenone

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

running it nowearlier

Manager	Role	From	To	Fund vs category, those months	3-yr stretches won in tenure
Alok Ranjan	fund manager	by Apr 2026†	now	10.8% vs 18.7% (−7.93 pp)	—
Nilay Dalal	fund manager	by Apr 2026†	now	10.8% vs 18.7% (−7.93 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 0.6 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

NAV sits 426 bp from its disclosed portfolio, but the replication is noisy

What this means. 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.

Latest gap beyond expense accrual

+426 bp

expense accrual ≈ 0.238 bp a day

Jumps since the disclosure

11noisy

4 Sep 2026 +191 bp · 8 Sep 2026 +86 bp · 7 Sep 2026 +74 bp

Window

60 days

25 Jun 2026 – 18 Sep 2026

Read it this way: daily residuals within ±2 bp are trading noise and the expense ratio accruing. A jump that stays is a portfolio change the fund has not disclosed yet — the size bounds how material. A gap that opens then closes is usually a dividend going ex-date.

Marked noisy: the replication jumped on 48 days in the window. Read the gap as coverage, not as a signal.

Share classes

latest NAV per AMFI code

Plan	Option	NAV	Date
direct ITI Business Cycle Fund- Direct Plan- Growth	growth	₹10.93	21 Sep 2026
direct ITI Business Cycle Fund- Direct Plan-IDCW	idcw	₹10.93	21 Sep 2026
regular ITI Business Cycle Fund- Regular Plan- Growth	growth	₹10.83	21 Sep 2026
regular ITI Business Cycle Fund- Regular Plan- IDCW	idcw	₹10.83	21 Sep 2026

The Direct / Regular gap, in rupees

Direct growth NAV: ₹10.93
Regular growth NAV: ₹10.83
NAV divergence to date: 1.0% — same portfolio, priced differently
Regular costs more by: not computed
On ₹1,00,000 over ten years: not computed

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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