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Franklin India Corporate Bond Fund

Plan Regular
Option IDCW Growth

Direct–Growth is the plan and option we treat as this fund's main page, so search engines are pointed there. Everything below is this filing's own data.

This scheme has not published a NAV since 8 May 2015 — 11.4 years ago. It has most likely matured, merged or been wound up, so every figure below is a record of what it did up to that date, not a current price. Do not read it as a fund you can buy today.

Fund basics

Launched1 Jan 2013 13.7 years of history
CategoryCorporate BondSEBI classification
Plan & optionRegular · code 119289
Benchmark— no equity benchmark for this category
NAV as on8 May 2015source AMFI

Computed from 559 published NAVs between 1 Jan 2013 and 7 May 2015 — 2.3 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
Franklin India Corporate Bond Fund Regular 0.090.461.95 6.32—— ——4.57
Corporate Bond category median · 3 funds ——— 4.506.585.57 ———

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 Regular plan in Corporate Bond — the middle fund, not a ranking, and a median rather than an average so that one mis-stated scheme cannot move it. As on 8 May 2015.

Risk measures

Fund name Volatility Sharpe Sortino Beta Alpha Max fall
Franklin India Corporate Bond Fund Regular 4.47 -0.43 -0.59 — — -8.75

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

Risk

VolatilityDownside volatilitySharpeSortino
4.5%3.3%-0.43-0.59

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

The worst it has been

Deepest fallTime to recoverToday, from its peak
-8.7%10 monthsAt a high
0%-3%-7%-10%2014
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
7.7%4.8%-1.4%3%
Worst-1.4%Median4.8%Best7.7%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

6.3%20141.6%2015MF 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.

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

93.46%Debt
3.72%REITs / InvITs
2.54%Cash & Equivalents
0.29%AIF Units

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

—Large
—Mid
—Small
Unclassified 97.5%97.5%Unclassified 97.5%
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 stocks47
Top 5 stocks26.49%
Top 10 stocks46.10%
Top 20 stocks71.35%
Largest single holding6.04%
Largest sectorCRISIL AAA · 46.31%
Number of sectors8
Effective stocks30.6
Cash & equivalents2.54%

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

CRISIL AAA — 46.3%CARE AAA — 14.0%SOVEREIGN — 13.3%IND AAA — 9.6%CRISIL AA — 6.9%ICRA AAA — 5.2%Other — 4.7%CRISIL AAA46.3%CARE AAA14.0%SOVEREIGN13.3%IND AAA9.6%CRISIL AA6.9%ICRA AAA5.2%Other4.7%
Where the equity money sits, by industry.

Largest holdings

Top 10 are 46.1% of the fund. A high number means a concentrated portfolio — fewer names doing more of the work, for better and for worse.

7.90% Jamnagar Utilities & Power Pvt Ltd (10-Aug-2028) 6.04%
7.79% Small Industries Development Bank Of India (19-Apr-2027) 5.93%
7.80% National Bank For Agriculture & Rural Development (15-Mar-2027) 5.75%
7.55% Poonawalla Fincorp Ltd (25-Mar-2027) 4.53%
7.66% Maharashtra SDL (04-Mar-2047) 4.23%
7.25% RJ Corp Ltd (08-Dec-2028) 4.21%
7.9265% LIC Housing Finance (14-Jul-2027) 4.12%
7.87% Summit Digitel Infrastructure Ltd (15-Mar-2030) 3.78%
Mahindra & Mahindra Financial Services Ltd (18-May-2029) ** $ 3.78%
7.21% Embassy Office Parks Reit (17-Mar-2028) 3.72%
0.00% Jubilant Beverages Ltd (31-May-2028) 3.53%
8.15% Tata Capital Ltd (11-Jun-2029) 3.41%

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 30 Jun 2026 and 31 Jul 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₹0.1 cr shares added, valued at this filing
Sold₹48.6 cr shares reduced or exited
New positions4 stocks not held a month ago
Sold out of14 stocks fully exited
Price move of what it held -0.20% 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
New positiondid not hold this a month ago 4
7.02% Punjab SDL (01-Jul-2030) 3,500,000 entered — 35.1 35.1
6.07% National Bank For Agriculture & Rural Development (19-Nov-2027) 250 entered — 25.7 25.7
7.56% Himachal Pradesh SDL (08-Jul-2039) 687,800 entered — 6.9 6.9
7.56% Kerala SDL (08-Jul-2039) 637,800 entered — 6.4 6.4
Added tobought more shares than last month 1
Corporate Debt Market Development Fund Class A2 49 +1.6% +0.4% 0.1 3.8
Trimmedcut the share count, without selling out 2
7.71% GOI 2066 (18-May-2066) 2,667,800 -95.9% -1.5% 27.6 1.2
7.55% Poonawalla Fincorp Ltd (25-Mar-2027) 2,050 -25.6% +0.6% 21.0 61.0
Sold out ofheld last month, gone this month 8
STANDARD CHARTERED BANK (Pay Fixed - Receive Floating) — exited — 65.0 —
DBS BANK LTD (Pay Fixed - Receive Floating) — exited — 50.0 —
Long — exited — 50.0 —
7.29% National Housing Bank (04-Jul-2031) 2,500 exited — 26.0 —
7.44% National Bank For Agriculture & Rural Development (17-Jul-2029) 2,500 exited — 25.7 —
ICICI SECURITIES PRIMARY DEALERSHIP LTD (Pay Fixed - Receive Floating) — exited — 25.0 —
IDFC FIRST BANK LTD (Pay Fixed - Receive Floating) — exited — 25.0 —
STANDARD CHARTERED (Pay Fixed - Receive Floating) — exited — 25.0 —

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 Corporate Bond Regular 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
Franklin India Corporate Bond Fund Franklin Templeton Mutual Fund · this scheme — — — 4.5% -0.43 -8.7%
BARODA BNP PARIBAS CORPORATE BOND FUND Baroda BNP Paribas Mutual Fund 7.4% — — 1.2% 0.76 -2.4%
Franklin India Corporate Bond Fund Franklin Templeton Mutual Fund 7.5% — — 2.2% 0.43 -7.7%
DSP Corporate Bond Fund DSP Mutual Fund 7.1% — — 1.6% 0.38 -3.2%
ICICI Prudential Corporate Bond Fund ICICI Prudential Mutual Fund 7.1% — — 2.1% 0.30 -7.6%
Nippon India Corporate Bond Fund Nippon India Mutual Fund 7.1% — — 0.9% 0.70 -1.7%
AXIS Corporate Bond Fund Axis Mutual Fund 7.0% — — 2.0% 0.27 -3.8%
Kotak Corporate Bond Fund Kotak Mahindra Mutual Fund 7.0% — — 1.4% 0.37 -1.9%
UTI - Corporate Bond Fund UTI Mutual Fund 7.0% — — 1.7% 0.27 -3.0%

Alpha and beta are against the category index. 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 Corporate Bond scheme is

At least 80% in the highest-rated corporate debt.

AA+ and above only. Better yields than government paper with credit risk kept deliberately small — the category exists precisely to avoid the trade-off credit risk funds make.

Who it suits. Conservative investors wanting more than a gilt fund without reaching for risk.

How long money should stay. 3 years or more.

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Questions people ask

What is the NAV of Franklin India Corporate Bond Fund — —?

₹0.0000 as on 8 May 2015, 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 Franklin India Corporate Bond 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 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 the highest-rated corporate debt. AA+ and above only. Better yields than government paper with credit risk kept deliberately small — the category exists precisely to avoid the trade-off credit risk funds make.

How long should money stay in it?

Typically 3 years or more. Conservative investors wanting more than a gilt fund without reaching for risk.