HSBC Balanced Advantage Fund vs ICICI Prudential Nifty 100 ETF

Direct Plan where a fund has one, Growth option · Data as on 30-10-2026

HSBC Balanced Advantage Fund is a Balanced Advantage fund and ICICI Prudential Nifty 100 ETF is an ETF fund. In the 3 years to 30-10-2026, HSBC Balanced Advantage Fund (Direct) returned 9.1% a year and ICICI Prudential Nifty 100 ETF returned 8.5% a year. HSBC Balanced Advantage Fund charges 1.16% a year and ICICI Prudential Nifty 100 ETF 0.50%. Their portfolios overlap 40.2%: they hold 29 of the same securities.

HSBC Balanced Advantage Fund

Balanced Advantage

3 year return: 9.1%
Expense ratio: 1.16%
NAV: ₹50.41

See HSBC Balanced Advantage Fund

ICICI Prudential Nifty 100 ETF

ETF

3 year return: 8.5%
Expense ratio: 0.50%
NAV: ₹26.77

See ICICI Prudential Nifty 100 ETF

Which is better, HSBC Balanced Advantage or ICICI Prudential Nifty 100 ETF? Key differences

It depends on what you want from the fund. These are the differences in numbers, from the data on this page.

HSBC Balanced Advantage returned more over 3 years: 9.1% a year against 8.5%.
HSBC Balanced Advantage returned more over 1 year: −1.6% against −9.2%.
ICICI Prudential Nifty 100 ETF costs less: 0.50% a year against 1.16%.
HSBC Balanced Advantage swung less over 3 years: a standard deviation of 7.1% a year against 13.7%.
HSBC Balanced Advantage fell less in its worst fall since 28-11-2022: −8.7% against −17.4%.
ICICI Prudential Nifty 100 ETF holds more in large companies: 98.0% of the fund in large caps against 47.5%.
HSBC Balanced Advantage is the larger fund: ₹1,474 Cr against ₹151 Cr.
Their portfolios overlap 40.2%: 29 of the same holdings.

Past returns do not promise future returns. This page is information, not investment advice.

NAV comparison

How each fund's NAV moved over the same days, as % change since the first day of the range

HSBC Balanced Advantage Fund (Direct)
+42.4%
ICICI Prudential Nifty 100 ETF
+29.6%

Change in NAV from 28-11-2022 to 30-10-2026

0%+20%+40%+60%

Key facts

From each fund's scheme summary document and AMFI

Fact	HSBC Balanced Advantage Fund	ICICI Prudential Nifty 100 ETF
Fund house	HSBC Mutual Fund	ICICI Prudential Mutual Fund
Category	Balanced Advantage	ETF
AUM	₹1,474 Cr (30-09-2026)	₹151 Cr (30-09-2026)
NAV	₹50.41 (Direct)	₹26.77
Expense ratio (Direct)	1.16%	Not available
Expense ratio (Regular)	2.49%	Not available
Riskometer	Very High	Very High
Benchmark	NIFTY 50 Hybrid Composite Debt 50:50 Index	Nifty 100 TRI
Launch date	07-02-2011	20-08-2013
Minimum investment	₹5,000	During Ongoing/Continuous Offer: On Stock Exchanges: Investors can buy/sell units of the Scheme in round lot of 1 unit and in multiples thereof. Directly with the Mutual Fund: Investors can buy or sell units of the scheme in creation unit size and its mul
Lock in	None	None
Fund managers	Neelotpal Sahai, Prakriti Banka, Praveen Ayathan, Mahesh Chhabria, Mohd. Asif Rizwi, Mayank Chaturvedi	Nishit Patel, Ajaykumar Solanki, Ashwini Bharucha, Venus Ahuja
Exit load	Exit load of 1% if units in excess of 10% are redeemed or switched-out within 1 year	Not available

HSBC Balanced Advantage vs ICICI Prudential Nifty 100 ETF: Returns Comparison

Returns as on 30-10-2026. Up to one year they are absolute returns. Longer periods are a rate per year.

Fund	1M	3M	6M	1Y	3Y	5Y	10Y
HSBC Balanced Advantage Fund (Direct)	−1.08%	−2.67%	+0.46%	−1.58%	+9.10%	--	--
ICICI Prudential Nifty 100 ETF	+1.00%	−5.43%	−3.23%	−9.17%	+8.54%	+6.69%	+11.17%
Balanced Advantage average	−0.55%	−2.88%	+0.08%	−2.08%	+9.14%	--	--

Category average: the average of the 38 Balanced Advantage funds, same plan type.

HSBC Balanced Advantage vs ICICI Prudential Nifty 100 ETF: Year-wise Returns

Year	HSBC Balanced AdvantageHSBC Balanced Advantage	ICICI Prudential Nifty 100 ETFICICI Prudential Nifty 100 ETF
2026to date	−1.98%	−9.71%
2025	+4.16%	+9.71%
2024	+16.96%	+12.38%
2023	+19.56%	+20.66%
2022	--	+4.43%
2021	--	+25.85%

HSBC Balanced Advantage vs ICICI Prudential Nifty 100 ETF: Rolling Returns

Every holding period of both funds, against Nifty 100 TRI, the benchmark of ICICI Prudential Nifty 100 ETF

Rolling returns

Every 3-year holding period, 226 of them, one for each trading day from 28-11-2025 to 30-10-2026: the yearly return (CAGR) of each, plotted on the day it ended. One lucky or unlucky start day cannot flatter or hide a fund.

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HSBC Balanced Advantage Fund (Direct)ICICI Prudential Nifty 100 ETFNifty 100 TRI

How the periods spread

Fund	5-10%	10-15%	15-20%	Mean	Median	Lowest	Highest	Beat benchmark
HSBC Balanced Advantage	15.9	84.1	0.0	11.3%	11.1%	8.5%	13.8%	27%
ICICI Prudential Nifty 100 ETF	26.0	69.6	4.4	11.5%	11.3%	6.5%	15.8%	0%
Nifty 100 TRI	18.6	69.5	11.9	12.0%	11.9%	7.1%	16.3%	--

The table shows the % of periods in each return band; a darker cell holds more of them. Lumpsum: the yearly rate (CAGR) from a period's first NAV to its last. SIP: the XIRR of the monthly instalments. The benchmark is Nifty 100 TRI, over the same periods. "Beat benchmark" counts the periods in which the fund did better. Every fund is measured over the days all of them have, from 28-11-2022. Past returns do not promise future returns.

HSBC Balanced Advantage vs ICICI Prudential Nifty 100 ETF: SIP and Lumpsum Returns

What the same monthly or one-time investment would be worth in each fund today, from their own NAV history

Growth of an investment

Every month₹

Step up each year

PeriodFor

₹10,000 on the first trading day of every month, from 28-11-2022 to 30-10-2026: 48 instalments, ₹4,80,000 in all.

Investment	Invested	Value now	Gain	Return a year
HSBC Balanced AdvantageHSBC Balanced Advantage Fund (Direct)	₹4,80,000	₹5,43,966	₹63,966	6.2%
ICICI Prudential Nifty 100 ETFICICI Prudential Nifty 100 ETF	₹4,80,000	₹5,17,095	₹37,095	3.7%

₹0₹2.0 L₹4.0 L₹6.0 L

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HSBC Balanced AdvantageHSBC Balanced Advantage Fund (Direct)ICICI Prudential Nifty 100 ETFICICI Prudential Nifty 100 ETFAmount invested

From each plan's published NAV (Growth option), over the same days. Return a year: XIRR for a SIP, CAGR for a lumpsum, shown for a year or more. It does not include exit load, stamp duty or tax. Past returns do not promise future returns.

HSBC Balanced Advantage vs ICICI Prudential Nifty 100 ETF: Risk and Drawdowns

How much each fund swings, and the worst fall over the same days

Risk and return

Measure	HSBC Balanced Advantage Fund (Direct)	ICICI Prudential Nifty 100 ETF
Return (CAGR)	−1.58%	−9.17%
Standard deviation	7.17%	14.04%
Sharpe ratio	-0.95	-1.03
Sortino ratio	-1.27	-1.36
Maximum drawdown	−7.0% (30-03-2026)	−15.0% (31-03-2026)
Beta	--	1.00
Alpha	--	−0.48%

From daily NAVs, 30-10-2025 to 30-10-2026. Standard deviation: how much the daily value swings, scaled to a year. Sharpe: return above the risk-free rate (NSE's overnight rate index) per unit of swing. Sortino: the same, counting only the falls. Beta and alpha compare each fund with its own benchmark's TRI.

Measure	HSBC Balanced Advantage Fund (Direct)	ICICI Prudential Nifty 100 ETF
Return (CAGR)	+9.10%	+8.54%
Standard deviation	7.08%	13.69%
Sharpe ratio	0.44	0.18
Sortino ratio	0.59	0.25
Maximum drawdown	−8.7% (03-03-2025)	−17.4% (28-02-2025)
Beta	--	1.00
Alpha	--	−0.54%

From daily NAVs, 30-10-2023 to 30-10-2026. Standard deviation: how much the daily value swings, scaled to a year. Sharpe: return above the risk-free rate (NSE's overnight rate index) per unit of swing. Sortino: the same, counting only the falls. Beta and alpha compare each fund with its own benchmark's TRI.

Measure	HSBC Balanced Advantage Fund (Direct)	ICICI Prudential Nifty 100 ETF
Return (CAGR)	+9.44%	+13.23%
Standard deviation	6.55%	15.70%
Sharpe ratio	0.50	0.46
Sortino ratio	0.67	0.63
Maximum drawdown	−8.7% (03-03-2025)	−37.9% (23-03-2020)
Beta	--	0.99
Alpha	--	−0.34%

From daily NAVs, 28-11-2022 to 30-10-2026. Standard deviation: how much the daily value swings, scaled to a year. Sharpe: return above the risk-free rate (NSE's overnight rate index) per unit of swing. Sortino: the same, counting only the falls. Beta and alpha compare each fund with its own benchmark's TRI.

Drawdowns

How far below its previous high each one was on every day: the falls an investor had to sit through. 0% means it was at a new high.

−20%−15%−10%−5%0%

2023202420252026

HSBC Balanced Advantage Fund (Direct)ICICI Prudential Nifty 100 ETFNifty 100 TRI

Fund	Worst fall	High before it	Bottom	Back at the high	Time to climb back	Below its high today
HSBC Balanced Advantage Fund (Direct)	−8.7%	11-12-2024	03-03-2025	15-07-2025	4 months	−4.1%
ICICI Prudential Nifty 100 ETF	−17.4%	26-09-2024	28-02-2025	Not yet	--	−10.9%
Nifty 100 TRI	−17.2%	26-09-2024	28-02-2025	02-01-2026	10 months	−10.1%

From daily values since 28-11-2022, the first day every fund has.

Rolling standard deviation

Whether the swings have grown or calmed over time: the standard deviation of daily changes over every 3-year window, scaled to a year, plotted on the window's last day. Higher means a bumpier ride.

0%5%10%15%

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HSBC Balanced Advantage Fund (Direct)ICICI Prudential Nifty 100 ETFNifty 100 TRI

Against Nifty 100 TRI

Fund	Up capture	Down capture	Tracking error
HSBC Balanced Advantage Fund (Direct)	61%	32%	8.09%
ICICI Prudential Nifty 100 ETF	99%	101%	0.03%

From month-end values since 28-11-2022. Up capture: a fund's average month when the benchmark rose, as % of the benchmark's; above 100% it gained more. Down capture: the same for months the benchmark fell; below 100% it fell less. Tracking error: how far the monthly returns strayed from the benchmark's, a year; an index fund aims near 0.

HSBC Balanced Advantage vs ICICI Prudential Nifty 100 ETF: Portfolio Overlap

From each fund's latest monthly portfolio: HSBC Balanced Advantage Fund, September 2026; ICICI Prudential Nifty 100 ETF, September 2026

Holdings in common

Overlap: 40.2%
Held by both: 29
Only in HSBC Balanced Advantage: 44
Only in ICICI Prudential Nifty 100 ETF: 71

Security	% of HSBC Balanced Advantage	% of ICICI Prudential Nifty 100 ETF
HDFC Bank Limited	5.61%	8.41%
ICICI Bank Limited	4.75%	7.34%
Reliance Industries Limited	4.03%	6.15%
Axis Bank Limited	4.16%	2.73%
Larsen & Toubro Limited	2.55%	3.41%
Kotak Mahindra Bank Limited	2.59%	2.38%
Eternal Limited	2.05%	1.80%
Bharti Airtel Limited	1.40%	4.14%
Infosys Limited	1.35%	2.72%
Mahindra & Mahindra Limited	1.30%	2.04%
State Bank of India	1.27%	3.07%
Shriram Finance Limited	2.00%	1.07%
Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Limited	0.92%	1.49%
JSW Steel Limited	0.85%	0.93%
Hindustan Unilever Limited	0.78%	1.29%
Eicher Motors Limited	0.73%	0.76%
NTPC Limited	0.71%	1.19%
Tata Motors Limited	0.86%	0.68%
Tech Mahindra Limited	0.62%	0.75%
UltraTech Cement Limited	0.59%	1.00%
Hindalco Industries Limited	0.59%	1.06%
Max Healthcare Institute Limited	0.63%	0.54%
SBI Life Insurance Company Limited	0.52%	0.59%
Tata Consumer Products Limited	0.81%	0.48%
ITC Limited	0.47%	1.96%
The Tata Power Company Limited	1.82%	0.47%
HDFC Asset Management Company Limited	0.54%	0.36%
DLF Limited	2.43%	0.33%
Polycab India Limited	0.98%	0.33%

Overlap: for each holding both funds own, the smaller of its two weights, added up. 40.2% means 40.2% of each fund's money sits in positions the other also holds. Matched by ISIN. Cash and hedged positions are left out.

Largest holdings only in HSBC Balanced Advantage Fund

Security	% of fund
Aurobindo Pharma Limited	4.14%
NABARD	3.47%
7.06% GOI - 10-Apr-2028	3.39%
7.37% GOI 23OCT2028	2.84%
REC Limited	2.12%

Largest holdings only in ICICI Prudential Nifty 100 ETF

Security	% of fund
Bajaj Finance Ltd.	2.03%
Tata Consultancy Services Ltd.	1.62%
Titan Company Ltd.	1.47%
Maruti Suzuki India Ltd.	1.20%
Tata Steel Ltd.	1.18%

Asset and sector split

Share of each fund, from its latest monthly portfolio

Asset allocation

Asset	HSBC Balanced Advantage	ICICI Prudential Nifty 100 ETF
Equity	72.7%	100.0%
Debt	25.5%	0.0%
Cash and others	1.9%	0.0%

Market cap of stocks

Market cap	HSBC Balanced Advantage	ICICI Prudential Nifty 100 ETF
Large Cap	47.5%	98.0%
Mid Cap	13.2%	2.0%
Small Cap	10.7%	0.0%
Not on AMFI's list	1.3%	0.0%

Share of the whole fund. Groups follow AMFI's latest list: Large Cap is the 100 largest companies, Mid Cap the next 150, Small Cap the rest.

Largest sectors

Sector	HSBC Balanced Advantage	ICICI Prudential Nifty 100 ETF
Banks	19.8%	25.1%
Petroleum Products	4.0%	7.0%
It - Software	0.0%	6.7%
Automobiles	2.0%	6.4%
Finance	3.9%	6.2%
Pharmaceuticals & Biotechnology	6.0%	4.3%
Retailing	5.5%	3.0%
Telecom - Services	1.4%	4.4%
Realty	3.7%	0.3%

The six largest sectors of each fund's stocks, % of the fund.

HSBC Balanced Advantage vs ICICI Prudential Nifty 100 ETF: Expense Ratio

What each plan charges a year, from AMFI's expense ratio file

Charge	HSBC Balanced Advantage Fund	ICICI Prudential Nifty 100 ETF
Total expense ratio (Direct)	1.16%	Not available
Base expense ratio (Direct)	0.71%	0.00%
Total expense ratio (Regular)	2.49%	Not available
Base expense ratio (Regular)	1.83%	0.41%

The expense ratio comes out of the fund's assets every day, so every return on this page is already after it. Base expense ratio: the fund house's own fee. The total adds brokerage, transaction costs, and levies with GST.

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HSBC Balanced Advantage Fund vs ICICI Prudential Nifty 100 ETF: Frequently Asked Questions

What is the difference between HSBC Balanced Advantage Fund and ICICI Prudential Nifty 100 ETF?

HSBC Balanced Advantage Fund is a Balanced Advantage fund, ICICI Prudential Nifty 100 ETF is an ETF fund, run by HSBC Mutual Fund and ICICI Prudential Mutual Fund. Their portfolios overlap 40.2%. HSBC Balanced Advantage Fund charges 1.16% a year and ICICI Prudential Nifty 100 ETF 0.50%.

Which has given higher returns, HSBC Balanced Advantage Fund or ICICI Prudential Nifty 100 ETF?

Over 1 year: HSBC Balanced Advantage Fund −1.58%, ICICI Prudential Nifty 100 ETF −9.17%. Over 3 years: HSBC Balanced Advantage Fund +9.10% a year, ICICI Prudential Nifty 100 ETF +8.54% a year. As on 30-10-2026. Past returns do not promise future returns.

Which has the lower expense ratio, HSBC Balanced Advantage Fund or ICICI Prudential Nifty 100 ETF?

ICICI Prudential Nifty 100 ETF charges less: 0.50% a year against 1.16%. These are the total expense ratios reported to AMFI.

How much do HSBC Balanced Advantage Fund and ICICI Prudential Nifty 100 ETF overlap?

40.2%. They hold 29 of the same securities, the largest shared ones being HDFCBANK, ICICIBANK, RELIANCE. From each fund's latest monthly portfolio.

Which is riskier, HSBC Balanced Advantage Fund or ICICI Prudential Nifty 100 ETF?

On SEBI's riskometer, HSBC Balanced Advantage Fund is rated Very High and ICICI Prudential Nifty 100 ETF Very High. Over 3 years, the standard deviation of daily returns was 7.08% and 13.69% a year.

Which is better for SIP, HSBC Balanced Advantage Fund or ICICI Prudential Nifty 100 ETF?

Over the last 3 years, a monthly SIP of ₹10,000 from 03-10-2023 to 30-10-2026 grew to ₹3,91,656 in HSBC Balanced Advantage Fund (XIRR 3.6% a year) and ₹3,70,311 in ICICI Prudential Nifty 100 ETF (XIRR 0.1% a year). Both received 37 instalments. Past returns do not promise future returns.

Can I invest in both HSBC Balanced Advantage Fund and ICICI Prudential Nifty 100 ETF?

Yes. 40.2% of each fund's money sits in the same holdings, so a large part of the two investments would move together.

Who manages HSBC Balanced Advantage Fund and ICICI Prudential Nifty 100 ETF?

HSBC Balanced Advantage Fund: Neelotpal Sahai, Prakriti Banka, Praveen Ayathan, Mahesh Chhabria, Mohd. Asif Rizwi, Mayank Chaturvedi. ICICI Prudential Nifty 100 ETF: Nishit Patel, Ajaykumar Solanki, Ashwini Bharucha, Venus Ahuja.

Sources: NAV and expense ratio from AMFI. Holdings from each fund house's monthly portfolio statement. Fund facts from each scheme summary document.

This page is information, not investment advice. Mutual fund investments are subject to market risks; read all scheme related documents carefully. Past returns do not promise future returns. Figures come from AMFI, NSE, BSE and each fund house's own documents.