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Bandhan Short Term Fund

Option IDCW Growth

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Fund basics

Launched first published NAV
CategoryIncome/Debt Oriented Schemes - Short Term FundSEBI classification
Plan & optionDirect · Fortnightly IDCW code 118405
Benchmark no equity benchmark for this category
NAV as on27 Aug 2026source AMFI

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

96.99%Debt
3.01%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

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 stocks78
Top 5 stocks30.53%
Top 10 stocks43.84%
Top 20 stocks62.88%
Largest single holding13.53%
Largest sectorCRISIL AAA · 42.57%
Number of sectors6
Effective stocks27.8
Cash & equivalents2.65%

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 — 42.6%SOVEREIGN — 30.1%CRISIL A1+ — 15.3%ICRA A1+ — 4.9%CARE A1+ — 4.0%Other — 3.0%CRISIL AAA42.6%SOVEREIGN30.1%CRISIL A1+15.3%ICRA A1+4.9%CARE A1+4.0%Other3.0%
Where the equity money sits, by industry.

Largest holdings

Top 10 are 43.8% of the fund. A high number means a concentrated portfolio — fewer names doing more of the work, for better and for worse.

6.68% GOI (MD 07/07/2040) 13.53%
Kotak Mahindra Bank Limited 4.91%
7.48% National Bank For Agriculture and Rural Development 4.86%
7.07% Bajaj Finance Limited 4.17%
Union Bank of India 3.06%
HDFC Bank Limited 2.95%
7.8% Tata Capital Housing Finance Limited 2.82%
6.88% Uttar Pradesh SDL (MD 23/06/2031) 2.79%
Kotak Mahindra Bank Limited 2.43%
8.08% Tamilnadu SDL (MD 26/12/2028) 2.32%
7.5% Indian Railway Finance Corporation Limited 2.28%
8.15% Tata Capital Limited 2.28%

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 a Income/Debt Oriented Schemes - Short Term Fund scheme is

A SEBI-classified mutual fund scheme.

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Questions people ask

What is the NAV of Bandhan Short Term Fund — Direct Plan — Fortnightly IDCW?

₹10.3598 as on 27 Aug 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 Bandhan 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 Fortnightly 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?

A SEBI-classified mutual fund scheme.