Bandhan Arbitrage Fund Direct Growth

Bandhan Arbitrage Fund Direct Growth is a hybrid fund. This fund was started on 17 January, 2013. The fund is managed by Ritika Behera, Kapil Kankonkar, Brijesh Shah, Harshal Joshi, Gaurav Satra. This fund gives you the benefit of diversification.

1. Bandhan Arbitrage Fund Direct Growth has ₹8880 Cr worth of assets under management (AUM) as on Aug 2025 and is more than category average.
2. The fund has an expense ratio 0.4.
   

Bandhan Arbitrage Fund Direct Growth has given a CAGR return of 6.97% since inception. Over the last 1, 3 and 5 years the fund has given a CAGR return of 7.49%, 7.75% and 6.29% respectively.

Bandhan Arbitrage Fund Direct Growth has allocated its funds majorly in Cash Equivalent, Financial Services, Corporate, Basic Materials, Energy, Tech, Industrial, Consumer Cyclical, Government, Consumer Defensive, Health, Utilities, Communication, Real Estate.

As it is a arbitrage fund mutual fund the taxation is as follows:
If the fund is equity oriented i.e. asset allocation of more than 65% in equity instruments:
For short term (less than a year) capital gains will be taxed at 20%
For long term (more than 1 year) capital gains will be taxed at 12.5% without indexation benefit
Long term gains up to Rs 1 lakh are exempt from taxation (more than 12 months).

The investment objective of the Scheme is to generate capital appreciation and income by predominantly investing in arbitrage opportunity in the cash and the derivative segments of the equity markets and the arbitrage opportunity available within the derivative segments and by investing the balance in debt and money market instruments. However there is no assurance that the investment objective of the scheme will be realized.

Minimum investment for lump sum payment is INR 100.00 and for SIP is INR 100.00. Bandhan Arbitrage Fund Direct Growth has no lock in period.