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A Specialised Investment Fund (SIF) is a SEBI-regulated investment category, introduced under the mutual fund framework, that allows registered AMCs to offer strategies with more flexibility than conventional mutual funds — including limited derivative use and short positions — for investors comfortable with that added complexity.

Mutual funds generally follow long-only mandates within standard SEBI categories. SIF strategies can take limited short positions and use derivatives beyond pure hedging, within SEBI-defined caps, and require a materially higher minimum investment.

Any investor who meets the minimum investment threshold can technically invest, but SIFs are designed for investors who understand the specific strategy's mechanics and risks — meeting the minimum alone doesn't mean a SIF is suitable for you.

₹10 lakh per PAN, per AMC, aggregated across all of that AMC's SIF strategies — as set by SEBI's SIF framework at the time of writing. Always confirm the current threshold in official scheme documents.

Yes — like any market-linked investment, SIFs carry risk, and strategy-specific risks (derivatives, short positions, concentration) can make some SIFs riskier than a typical diversified mutual fund. Each SIF discloses a SEBI-mandated Risk Band to help you assess this.

Common categories include Equity Long-Short, Equity Ex-Top 100 Long-Short, Sector Rotation, Hybrid Long-Short, and Active Asset Allocation — each with its own mandate disclosed in the scheme's offer document.

Yes, within SEBI-defined limits — unhedged derivative exposure is capped at 25% of net assets under the SIF framework (SEBI circular dated 27 February 2025), so it's bounded, not unlimited.

A strategy that takes both long (buy) positions expecting a security to rise and short positions expecting it to fall, aiming to generate returns from both directions — though results depend entirely on the manager's calls being right, not a guarantee either way.

In a SIF, you own units of a pooled scheme, similar to a mutual fund. In PMS, you directly own the underlying securities in your own individually managed account. PMS typically has a higher minimum investment than SIF.

SIFs operate under SEBI's mutual fund regulations with a lower entry barrier. AIFs are a separate regulatory category typically aimed at HNI/UHNI investors with generally higher minimums and different structuring.

Yes — use the Compare tool in the SIF Explorer above to select up to 4 schemes and see NAV, returns, risk, cost and other details side by side.

We provide live, AMFI-sourced data and research tools on this page for free, and offer paid planning sessions where we help you assess whether a specific SIF strategy actually fits your existing portfolio, goals and risk profile.

Each SIF's Scheme Information Document (SID) and related disclosures are published by the respective AMC, and NAV/strategy data is available on AMFI's official website. Click into any scheme's detail view above for available links.

No. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Most SIFs currently have under two years of track record, so historical figures should be read with that limited history in mind.