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Nippon India Ultra Short Term Fund

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Fund basics

Launched21 May 2018 8.4 years of history
CategoryUltra Short DurationSEBI classification
Plan & optionRegular · WEEKLY IDCW OPTION code 143495
Benchmark— no equity benchmark for this category
NAV as on25 Sep 2026source AMFI

Computed from 2,016 published NAVs between 21 May 2018 and 16 Sep 2026 — 8.3 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
Nippon India Ultra Short Term Fund Regular 0.00-0.11-0.10 -0.040.010.00 0.55—0.00
Ultra Short Duration category median · 58 funds ——— 5.976.786.11 —6.40—

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 Ultra Short Duration — 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
Nippon India Ultra Short Term Fund Regular 2.35 -2.76 -3.13 — — -5.34

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

Risk

VolatilityDownside volatilitySharpeSortino
2.4%2.1%-2.76-3.13

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

The worst it has been

Deepest fallTime to recoverToday, from its peak
-5.3%20 months-2.4%
0%-2%-4%-6%2020202220242026
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
5.5%0.0%-4.2%43%
Worst-4.2%Median0.0%Best5.5%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

0.0%20210.0%20220.0%20230.1%20240.0%2025-0.1%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 ₹599,891 today, an XIRR of -0.01% 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

91.74%Debt
6.28%Cash & Equivalents
1.71%REITs / InvITs
0.27%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

AMFI has not classified this scheme's holdings into large, mid and small cap in the filing we hold, so there is no split to show. The section is left here rather than hidden so it is clear the data is missing, not that the fund holds nothing.

Concentration

Number of stocks113
Top 5 stocks13.18%
Top 10 stocks23.46%
Top 20 stocks40.23%
Largest single holding3.42%
Largest sectorCRISIL A1+ · 31.00%
Number of sectors23
Effective stocks77.4
Cash & equivalents6.28%

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 A1+ — 31.0%CRISIL AAA — 10.9%CARE A1+ — 6.7%CRISIL AA — 6.7%Cash & Equivalents — 6.3%Unclassified — 5.8%CARE AA — 5.5%ICRA AAA — 4.2%ICRA AA — 3.5%Other — 19.4%CRISIL A1+31.0%CRISIL AAA10.9%CARE A1+6.7%CRISIL AA6.7%Cash & Equivalents6.3%Unclassified5.8%CARE AA5.5%ICRA AAA4.2%ICRA AA3.5%Other19.4%
Where the equity money sits, by industry.

Largest holdings

Top 10 are 27.7% of the fund. A high number means a concentrated portfolio — fewer names doing more of the work, for better and for worse.

Triparty Repo 6.15%
182 Days Tbill 3.42%
8.5% Nirma Limited 2.98%
Punjab National Bank 2.49%
8.6% Aditya Birla Renewables Limited 2.15%
Small Industries Dev Bank of India 2.14%
182 Days Tbill 2.13%
Indian Bank 2.11%
9.4% Vedanta Aluminium Metal Limited 2.07%
6.72% IndiGrid Infrastructure Trust 2.06%
AU Small Finance Bank Limited 1.91%
HDFC Bank Limited 1.90%

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 15 Jul 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₹320 cr shares added, valued at this filing
Sold₹10.0 cr shares reduced or exited
New positions8 stocks not held a month ago
Sold out of4 stocks fully exited
Price move of what it held +0.01% 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 8
7.29% State Government Securities 5,200,000 entered — 52.3 52.3
9.5% Vedanta Aluminium Metal Limited 4,000 entered — 40.4 40.4
7.42% State Government Securities 4,000,000 entered — 40.2 40.2
7.4% State Government Securities 3,000,000 entered — 30.1 30.1
7.2% State Government Securities 2,500,000 entered — 25.2 25.2
8.07% Goldman Sachs India Finance Private Limited 2,500 entered — 25.0 25.0
Muthoot Finance Limited 2,500 entered — 25.0 25.0
7.37% State Government Securities 1,500,000 entered — 15.1 15.1
Added tobought more shares than last month 5
8.6% Aditya Birla Renewables Limited 10,000 +66.7% +0.1% 100 251
Bank of Baroda 1,900 +1,900.0% +0.3% 94.2 99.2
7.7% National Bank For Agriculture and Rural Development 9,000 +180.0% +0.0% 90.2 140
7.83% National Bank For Agriculture and Rural Development 2,500 +27.8% +0.1% 25.0 115
Axis Bank Limited 200 +10.0% +0.4% 9.7 107
Trimmedcut the share count, without selling out 1
9.25% SK Finance Limited 1,000 -10.5% 0.0% 10.0 85.1
Sold out ofheld last month, gone this month 4
91 Days Tbill 27,500,000 exited — 274 —
Muthoot Fincorp Ltd 2,000 exited — 98.6 —
182 Days Tbill 2,500,000 exited — 25.0 —
8.85% Muthoot Finance Limited 500 exited — 5.0 —

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 Ultra Short Duration 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
Nippon India Ultra Short Term Fund Nippon India Mutual Fund · this scheme 0.0% — — 2.4% -2.76 -5.3%
HSBC Ultra Short to Short Term Fund HSBC Mutual Fund 7.4% — — 0.8% 1.09 -0.2%
Mirae Asset Ultra Short-Term Fund Mirae Asset Mutual Fund 7.1% — — 0.3% 1.93 -0.2%
Mahindra Manulife Ultra Short Term Fund Mahindra Manulife Mutual Fund 6.9% — — 0.4% 0.78 -0.5%
BARODA BNP PARIBAS ULTRA SHORT TO SHORT TERM FUND Baroda BNP Paribas Mutual Fund 6.6% — — 0.5% 0.18 -0.6%
Sundaram Ultra Short to Short Term Fund (Formerly Known as Sundaram Low Duration Fund) Sundaram Mutual Fund 6.5% — — 0.5% 0.07 -0.3%
WhiteOak Capital Ultra Short Term Fund WhiteOak Capital Mutual Fund 6.4% — — 0.5% -0.10 -0.2%
LIC MF Ultra Short Term Fund LIC Mutual Fund 6.4% — — 0.5% -0.18 -1.3%
ITI Ultra Short Term Fund ITI Mutual Fund 6.3% — — 0.3% -0.81 -0.2%

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 Ultra Short Duration scheme is

Portfolio duration of 3 to 6 months.

A step out from liquid funds for slightly more return and slightly more movement. Still short enough that a rate change barely registers.

Who it suits. Money needed in three to six months.

How long money should stay. 3 to 6 months.

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Questions people ask

What is the NAV of Nippon India Ultra Short Term Fund — Regular Plan — WEEKLY IDCW OPTION?

₹1,091.6900 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 Nippon India Ultra Short Term 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 WEEKLY IDCW OPTION 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?

Portfolio duration of 3 to 6 months. A step out from liquid funds for slightly more return and slightly more movement. Still short enough that a rate change barely registers.

How long should money stay in it?

Typically 3 to 6 months. Money needed in three to six months.