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DSP ELSS Tax Saver Fund

Option Growth IDCW

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Fund basics

Launched3 Jan 2013 13.7 years of history
CategoryELSS (Tax Saving)SEBI classification
Plan & optionDirect · IDCW code 119241
BenchmarkNifty 500 used for alpha & beta below
NAV as on25 Sep 2026source AMFI

Computed from 3,374 published NAVs between 3 Jan 2013 and 16 Sep 2026 — 13.7 years of history. Nothing here is an estimate; it is arithmetic on what the fund actually printed.

How it has moved

Return over time (%)

Fund name 1M3M6M1Y3Y5Y7Y10YSince launch
DSP ELSS Tax Saver Fund Direct -3.97-3.13-0.30 -5.299.008.16 14.0712.4214.59
Nifty 500 benchmark 0.874.312.15 5.2012.4911.41 ——15.49
ELSS (Tax Saving) category median · 61 funds ——— 1.5912.2211.75 —13.77—

Anything over a year is annualised (CAGR); shorter windows are absolute. The benchmark row is the index fund named below, priced daily by AMFI like every other scheme here. The category row is the median Direct plan in ELSS (Tax Saving) — the middle fund, not a ranking, and a median rather than an average so that one mis-stated scheme cannot move it. As on 25 Sep 2026.

Risk measures

Fund name Volatility Sharpe Sortino Beta Alpha Max fall
DSP ELSS Tax Saver Fund Direct 15.68 0.16 0.22 0.99 -0.73 -37.88
Nifty 500 benchmark 17.16 0.35 0.47 —— -37.31

Risk-free rate 6.5%. Beta and alpha need an index, so the benchmark's own row leaves them blank.

Risk

VolatilityDownside volatilitySharpeSortino
15.7%11.5%0.160.22

Risk-free rate 6.5%, roughly the 10-year government bond.

The worst it has been

Deepest fallTime to recoverToday, from its peak
-37.9%8 months-10.7%
0%-13%-25%-38%2014201620182020202220242026
How far below its own record high the fund sat, on every single day it has existed. Flat along the top means it was making new highs; every dip is a stretch where somebody who bought at the wrong moment was down.

A drawdown is the fall from a previous high to the low that followed it. It is the number that decides whether somebody stays invested — a fund can have an excellent ten-year return and still have been unbearable to hold in year four.

Every one-year period it has lived through

Best yearMedian yearWorst yearLosing years
84.8%13.5%-28.0%19%
Worst-28.0%Median13.5%Best84.8%now
The full spread of one-year outcomes, with the fund's actual last twelve months marked. It answers the question a single number cannot: is right now an ordinary year for this fund, or an unusual one?

Rolling returns ask a fairer question than a single five-year figure: not "what did it do from this one start date", but "what happened across every start date". A fund whose worst year is −45% is a different proposition from one whose worst is −8%, even if the averages match.

Calendar years

31.4%20212.3%202227.2%202321.6%20245.7%2025-8.6%2026MF Analyser
Each year on its own, January to December. Losing years hang below the line — averages hide them, and the years somebody actually had to sit through are the ones that decide whether they stayed.

If you had run a SIP

₹10,000 every month for five years — ₹600,000 invested in all — would be worth ₹730,703 today, an XIRR of 7.82% a year.

XIRR, not CAGR. A SIP's money arrives over sixty months, so most of it has been invested for far less than five years — which is why this figure normally sits below the five-year CAGR above in a rising market, and above it in a falling one. It is the return the investor got, not the return the fund got.

What it actually holds

The real portfolio the AMC filed with AMFI. Nothing here is estimated — when a fund has no filing in our store the section simply does not appear. A fund is its holdings; the returns above are only what those holdings did.

Asset allocation

98.75%Equity
1.25%Cash & Equivalents

A fund's risk starts here — how much of it is even in the market — before any question of which stocks or which sectors. Cash is not idleness; it is the manager's choice not to be invested, and it shows up as a drag in a rising market and a cushion in a falling one.

Portfolio aggregates

76.09%Large
15.21%Mid
7.37%Small
Large Cap 76.1%76.1%Mid Cap 15.2%15.2%Small Cap 7.4%7.4%Unclassified 0.1%Large Cap 76.1%Mid Cap 15.2%Small Cap 7.4%Unclassified 0.1%
AMFI's half-yearly ranking: 1–100 Large, 101–250 Mid, 251+ Small. The rest is debt, cash, foreign holdings or fund units, which AMFI does not rank.

Concentration

Number of stocks58
Top 5 stocks35.65%
Top 10 stocks48.74%
Top 20 stocks65.91%
Largest single holding9.96%
Largest sectorBanks · 36.65%
Number of sectors24
Effective stocks26.5
Cash & equivalents1.25%

Counting positions overstates diversification. The effective-stocks figure is the honest count: a portfolio can hold seventy names and still have most of its money in twenty.

Sector allocation

Banks — 36.7%Pharmaceuticals & Biotechnology — 6.8%IT - Software — 5.9%Petroleum Products — 5.8%Finance — 5.0%Telecom - Services — 4.8%Automobiles — 4.4%Insurance — 3.5%Auto Components — 3.1%Other — 24.1%Banks36.7%Pharmaceuticals & Biotech…6.8%IT - Software5.9%Petroleum Products5.8%Finance5.0%Telecom - Services4.8%Automobiles4.4%Insurance3.5%Auto Components3.1%Other24.1%
Where the equity money sits, by industry.

Largest holdings

Top 10 are 48.7% of the fund. A high number means a concentrated portfolio — fewer names doing more of the work, for better and for worse.

ICICI Bank Limited 9.96%
HDFC Bank Limited 8.38%
Axis Bank Limited 7.89%
State Bank of India 5.77%
Kotak Mahindra Bank Limited 3.65%
Bharti Airtel Limited 3.25%
Reliance Industries Limited 2.85%
Mahindra & Mahindra Limited 2.53%
Infosys Limited 2.42%
Max Financial Services Limited 2.04%
Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited 1.95%
Cipla Limited 1.89%

Disclosed holdings from the AMC's AMFI filing, largest first. A portfolio is filed monthly and shifts between filings — this is the most recent one loaded, not a live book.

What the manager did last month

Between the filing of 31 Jul 2026 and 31 Aug 2026. A position grows for two reasons — the manager bought more, or the price went up — and only the first is a decision. The share count is what separates them, because it moves only when somebody trades.

Bought₹352 cr shares added, valued at this filing
Sold₹198 cr shares reduced or exited
New positions0 stocks not held a month ago
Sold out of0 stocks fully exited
Price move of what it held +0.28% the market's doing, not the manager's

Swipe the table sideways for share counts, price change and values.

Stock Shares traded Change in shares Change in price Value of the trade₹ crore Position now₹ crore
Added tobought more shares than last month 8
Alkem Laboratories Limited 233,656 +370.9% -7.3% 125 158
Axis Bank Limited 339,845 +3.5% +5.7% 44.2 1,315
Maruti Suzuki India Limited 32,214 +26.4% -4.8% 43.6 209
State Bank of India 406,696 +4.7% +3.2% 43.1 962
Reliance Industries Limited 319,498 +9.4% -2.4% 40.8 475
ITC Limited 1,459,192 +21.6% -9.1% 37.3 210
Coromandel International Limited 63,145 +5.5% -8.1% 12.0 232
SBI Life Insurance Co Limited 34,469 +2.5% -7.5% 6.0 244
Trimmedcut the share count, without selling out 3
Cohance Lifesciences Limited 2,669,270 -81.3% +7.3% 122 28.1
Cholamandalam Investment and Finance Co Limited 224,425 -20.6% +0.4% 41.7 161
IPCA Laboratories Limited 177,518 -13.3% +13.0% 35.1 229

Only stocks and fund units are listed. Treasury bills, repo and money-market lines roll over every month by design — they are larger in rupees than most equity trades and are not decisions, so they are summarised as cash above rather than listed as activity. Share counts and values are the fund house's own filing. What a position cost when it was first bought is in no monthly disclosure, so a value here is what the shares were worth at the later filing, not what was paid.

How it compares in its category

Against the ELSS (Tax Saving) Direct schemes with the highest three-year return. Same category, same plan — the only comparison that means anything. The list re-sorts itself as returns move; it is an ordering by one number, not a view on which fund anyone should hold.

Return window
Scheme Return Alpha Beta Volatility Sharpe Max fall
DSP ELSS Tax Saver Fund DSP Mutual Fund · this scheme 9.0% -0.7% 0.99 15.7% 0.16 -37.9%
Motilal Oswal ELSS Tax Saver Fund Motilal Oswal Mutual Fund 20.7% 5.0% 1.03 17.4% 0.81 -37.7%
SBI Long Term Advantage Fund - Series V SBI Mutual Fund 19.1% 4.2% 0.95 16.2% 0.78 -35.8%
ITI ELSS Tax Saver Fund ITI Mutual Fund 15.7% 1.5% 1.04 17.9% 0.52 -38.5%
JM ELSS - Tax Saver Fund JM Financial Mutual Fund 15.4% 3.0% 1.01 17.0% 0.52 -37.4%
HSBC ELSS Tax saver Fund HSBC Mutual Fund 14.9% 5.8% 0.99 15.2% 0.55 -19.2%
WhiteOak Capital ELSS Tax Saver Fund WhiteOak Capital Mutual Fund 15.2% 6.2% 0.94 13.0% 0.67 -16.4%
Quant ELSS Tax Saver Fund quant Mutual Fund 13.5% 11.0% 1.03 16.8% 0.42 -36.1%
Baroda BNP Paribas ELSS Tax Saver Fund Baroda BNP Paribas Mutual Fund 14.2% 3.4% 0.94 13.8% 0.56 -17.3%

Alpha and beta are against Nifty 500. Max fall is the deepest peak-to-trough drop in each fund's own history, so a longer-running fund has had more chances to record a bad one. Click a column to sort. This is a sort, not a ranking, and nothing here is a recommendation.

What a ELSS (Tax Saving) scheme is

At least 80% in equity, with every investment locked for three years.

The only mutual fund that cuts your tax bill — up to ₹1.5 lakh a year under Section 80C of the old regime. The three-year lock is per instalment, so a SIP started today frees up one instalment at a time.

Who it suits. Anybody using the old tax regime who would be investing in equity anyway.

How long money should stay. The 3-year lock is a floor, not a plan — treat it as 7 years.

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Questions people ask

What is the NAV of DSP ELSS Tax Saver Fund — Direct Plan — IDCW?

₹88.5520 as on 25 Sep 2026, from AMFI's daily NAV file. NAV is declared once each business day after markets close, so the figure here is the most recent one published.

What is the difference between the Direct and Regular plan of DSP ELSS Tax Saver Fund?

They hold the identical portfolio, run by the same manager. A Regular plan pays a distributor commission out of the fund, inside its expense ratio — commonly 0.5% to 1.2% a year more than Direct. That difference is charged on the whole balance, every year, so it compounds: on ₹1,00,000 held ten years a gap of 1.5 percentage points is roughly ₹1.4 lakh of ending value. Direct is the same fund without the commission.

What does the IDCW option mean?

An IDCW option pays part of the fund's gains out to you, and the NAV falls by exactly what it pays. It is not extra return — it is your own money returned, taxed at your slab rate. That also means a return computed from NAV alone understates an IDCW scheme, which is why no CAGR is shown here for it.

What kind of scheme is this?

At least 80% in equity, with every investment locked for three years. The only mutual fund that cuts your tax bill — up to ₹1.5 lakh a year under Section 80C of the old regime. The three-year lock is per instalment, so a SIP started today frees up one instalment at a time.

How long should money stay in it?

Typically The 3-year lock is a floor, not a plan — treat it as 7 years. Anybody using the old tax regime who would be investing in equity anyway.