Protection
Compare Alpha Shield v2 alongside the separate March crash-period return and benchmark context.
SIF comparison tool
Select up to three Specialized Investment Funds and compare returns, risk, costs, liquidity and strategy side by side.
Compare Alpha Shield capital protection, fund returns, Total Expense Ratio, redemption frequency, exit load, benchmark and investment strategy for SIF funds in India.
Research lenses
Explore portfolio decisions and downside behaviour alongside the comparison.
Research framework
A useful SIF comparison goes beyond headline return. Read downside behaviour, cost, liquidity and strategy together before deciding which fund deserves deeper due diligence.
Compare Alpha Shield v2 alongside the separate March crash-period return and benchmark context.
Review since-inception and shorter-period returns together; young funds can have limited history.
Compare Direct and Regular TER, then read the exit-load terms before estimating the real cost.
Check redemption frequency, settlement, net-long range, benchmark and the manager's strategy type.
Quick answers
Pick up to 3 Specialized Investment Funds from the selector above. The comparison table shows Alpha Shield score, March 2026 crash-period return, category rank, since-inception return, Total Expense Ratio (TER), minimum investment, redemption frequency, strategy type and benchmark — side by side. Return highlights require matching observation windows; since-inception figures are not ranked.
Alpha Shield v2 is SIFPrime's 0–10 downside-protection research score. It combines downside capture (35%), maximum-drawdown protection (25%), recovery speed (20%) and benchmark-relative consistency or Information Ratio (20%). A score appears only when official fund NAV and the exact declared TRI benchmark history are complete and aligned.
All five live SIF categories: Hybrid Long-Short, Equity Long-Short, Ex-Top 100 Long-Short, Sector Rotation, and Active Asset Allocator. You can mix categories in a single comparison - useful when evaluating risk/return trade-offs across strategies.
Selected-plan returns are calculated from AMFI daily NAV history, with Trezofin stored history as a disclosed fallback. Each fund shows its source, scheme, actual NAV date and calculation window. Historical studies and published TER are separate reference data; verify current scheme disclosures.
SIFPrime focuses specifically on India's Specialized Investment Fund category. The comparison brings crash-period alpha analysis, capital-protection scoring, net-long ranges and Direct-versus-Regular TER into one SIF research view.
Returns use the same calculation across SIFPrime. Since-inception figures have different starting dates and are not ranked. A highlight requires an identical period and data for every selected fund.
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Choose two or three funds. Strongest comparable values are highlighted below.

Edelweiss
Hybrid Long Short

Quant Mutual Fund
Hybrid Long Short

Bandhan Mutual Fund
Hybrid Long Short
Selected-plan NAV history
Strategy type
Net long range
Benchmark
AMC
Fund manager team
NAV valuation date
NAV
Inception baseline
Since inception return
3-month return
1-month return
March 2026 alpha
March 2026 drawdown return
Capital protected
Drawdown category rank
Risk observation window
Maximum drawdown
Annualized volatility
Annualized Sharpe
Minimum investment
Redemption frequency
Settlement cycle
Exit load
Direct plan TER
Regular plan TER
Direct-plan fee saving
Analyst lens
Lowest published direct TER
qSIF Hybrid
1.10% TER
Costs and historical studies are published reference data and may have different update dates; verify current scheme disclosures. Risk metrics use each fund’s observed selected-plan history and are not ranked. Volatility and Sharpe use 252 trading days, at least 20 returns, and the disclosed risk-free-rate assumption. Strongest describes the displayed historical metric only. Review mandate fit, liquidity, costs and source disclosures before investing.