Sapphire SIF · SIF · SIF-96
Sapphire Equity Long-Short SIF - Growth
Equity Oriented · Equity Long-Short Fund · Open Ended Scheme · Regular Growth
ISIN (Payout): INF090I30014
Strategy facts
- Declared benchmark
- Nifty 500 TRI
- Fund managers
- Arihant Jain
- Launched
- 10 Apr 2026
- Minimum investment
- ₹10 lakh
- Risk level (1 low, 5 high)
- Level 5
- Expense ratio, as filed with AMFI
- Regular: 3.02, Direct: 1.34
Houses fill this field differently. It may be the base expense ratio only, before GST, brokerage and transaction costs.
- Custodian
- Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Limited (HSBC)
- SEBI code
- FSIF/O/E/ELSF/25/10/0001/FTMF
- Exit load
- 1% if units are redeemed within one year of allotment, NIL thereafter.
Investment objective
The investment strategy seeks to generate alpha over the long term by investing across a spectrum of large, mid and small cap companies using long/short equity strategies There is no assurance that the investment objective of the investment strategy will be achieved.
From AMFI's strategy details and the house's Scheme Summary Document, checked 16 Oct 2026. Strategy document (PDF) Summary document (PDF)
Returns (as of 2026-10-22)
1 Month
-4.26%
3 Months
-4.77%
6 Months
—
Since Inception
-5.85%
from 2026-04-29
CAGR (Inception)
—
< 1 yr history
Risk Indicators
Max Drawdown
-8.23%
Worst peak‑to‑trough fall since inception
Annualised Volatility
11.24%
How bumpy the daily NAV journey is
Based on 176 days of NAV history. Green < 5% MDD / < 12% vol · Amber 5-10% / 12-20% · Red > 10% / > 20%
Risk-adjusted ratios
Since inception, from 119 daily returns. Short histories make these noisy, so treat them as provisional.
Sharpe ratio
-1.61
Return per unit of total risk, above a 6% risk-free rate
Sortino ratio
-2.25
Same, but counting only the falls
Beta vs Nifty 500
0.93
1.0 moves with the index; lower means more hedged
Down capture
94%
Share of the index's falls it took on down days (lower is better)
Up capture
91%
Share of the index's gains it kept on up days
Worst month
-5.56%
Sep 2026
Best month
1.02%
Jun 2026
Positive months
3 of 6
Completed calendar months that gained
Drawdown recovery
Not yet
14 days since the worst low
Below its high
-8.13%
How far today's NAV is under the highest NAV so far
Beta and capture use the Nifty 500 price index, matched on 119 common trading days.
Growth of ₹100 since inception
2026-04-29 → 2026-10-22
| Since inception | Return | Max drawdown |
|---|
All rebased to ₹100 at the SIF's inception. SIFs are long-short (hedged) and aim for a smaller max drawdown rather than out-running a fully-invested fund/index in a rising market, so weigh the drawdown column alongside return.
Fund house's own money in this strategy
| Quarter | Valued on | ₹ crore |
|---|---|---|
| Apr-Jun 2026 | 30 Jun 2026 | 0.18 |
What the fund house itself has invested in this strategy, as filed with AMFI each quarter. This is the house's own stake, not the size of the strategy (AUM). AMFI does not publish AUM for individual SIF strategies.
Monthly returns · since inception (Apr 2026)
How each calendar month went: green months gained, red months lost. Deeper colour = bigger move.
| Year | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | · | · | · | · | -1.0 | +1.0 | +0.9 | +0.2 | -5.6 | -1.5 | · | · | -5.9 |
| Avg | · | · | · | · | -1.0 | +1.0 | +0.9 | +0.2 | -5.6 | · | · | · | · |
All values in %. Each cell compares the last NAV of the month with the last NAV of the month before. The latest month is month-to-date; the Year column compounds the months shown on that row.
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Minimum investment ₹10 lakh. SIF data from AMFI. Not investment advice. Verify all information with the fund house before investing.