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DSP Conservative Hybrid Fund

Option Growth IDCW

Fund basics

Launched3 Jan 2013 13.7 years of history
CategoryConservative HybridSEBI classification
Plan & optionDirect · Growth code 118994
Benchmark no equity benchmark for this category
NAV as on27 Aug 2026source AMFI

Computed from 3,299 published NAVs between 3 Jan 2013 and 28 Aug 2026 — 13.6 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 Conservative Hybrid Fund Direct 0.192.142.28 5.029.107.75 9.097.618.42
Conservative Hybrid category median · 21 funds 4.698.527.88 7.96

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 Conservative Hybrid — the middle fund, not a ranking, and a median rather than an average so that one mis-stated scheme cannot move it. As on 27 Aug 2026.

Risk measures

Fund name Volatility Sharpe Sortino Beta Alpha Max fall
DSP Conservative Hybrid Fund Direct 4.27 0.61 0.85 -12.03

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

Risk

VolatilityDownside volatilitySharpeSortino
4.3%3.0%0.610.85

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

The worst it has been

Deepest fallTime to recoverToday, from its peak
-12.0%4 monthsAt a high
0%-4%-7%-11%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
25.1%9.0%-4.9%7%
Worst-4.9%Median9.0%Best25.1%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

9.5%20214.2%202212.7%202311.7%20248.0%20252.1%2026InvestVerdict
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 ₹738,506 today, an XIRR of 8.25% 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

75.01%Debt
19.89%Equity
4.77%Cash & Equivalents
0.33%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

14.40%Large
2.29%Mid
3.20%Small
Large Cap 14.4%14.4%Mid Cap 2.3%Small Cap 3.2%Unclassified 75.3%75.3%Large Cap 14.4%Mid Cap 2.3%Small Cap 3.2%Unclassified 75.3%
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 stocks48
Top 5 stocks39.87%
Top 10 stocks60.79%
Top 20 stocks83.40%
Largest single holding11.64%
Largest sectorSovereign · 54.39%
Number of sectors21
Effective stocks20.0
Cash & equivalents4.77%

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

Sovereign — 54.4%CRISIL A1+ — 13.4%Banks — 6.9%Cash & Equivalents — 4.8%CRISIL AA+ — 4.3%Other — 16.3%Sovereign54.4%CRISIL A1+13.4%Banks6.9%Cash & Equivalents4.8%CRISIL AA+4.3%Other16.3%
Where the equity money sits, by industry.

Largest holdings

Top 10 are 62.5% of the fund. A high number means a concentrated portfolio — fewer names doing more of the work, for better and for worse.

7.32% GOI 2030 11.64%
8.51% GOI FRB 2033 8.86%
7.03% Maharashtra SDL 2038 8.06%
7.06% GOI 2028 5.76%
6.48% GOI 2035 5.55%
Small Industries Development Bank of India 5.36%
IDFC First Bank Limited 5.35%
TREPS / Reverse Repo Investments 4.66%
Muthoot Finance Limited 4.25%
HDFC Bank Limited 2.98%
Cholamandalam Investment and Finance Company Limited 2.98%
7.10% GOI 2029 2.90%

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.

How it compares in its category

Against the Conservative Hybrid 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 Conservative Hybrid Fund DSP Mutual Fund · this scheme 9.1% 4.3% 0.61 -12.0%
Parag Parikh Conservative Hybrid Fund PPFAS Mutual Fund 10.5% 2.9% 1.36 -2.3%
HSBC Conservative Hybrid Fund HSBC Mutual Fund 9.6% 4.8% 0.65 -10.4%
Kotak Conservative Hybrid Fund Kotak Mahindra Mutual Fund 9.2% 4.8% 0.57 -11.8%
BARODA BNP PARIBAS CONSERVATIVE HYBRID FUND Baroda BNP Paribas Mutual Fund 9.0% 3.5% 0.72 -4.5%
SBI CONSERVATIVE HYBRID FUND SBI Mutual Fund 8.8% 4.2% 0.55 -11.9%
Nippon India Conservative Hybrid Fund (Existing number of Segregated Portfolios - 1) Nippon India Mutual Fund 8.9% 4.4% 0.56 -18.9%
UTI Conservative Hybrid Fund UTI Mutual Fund 8.4% 4.5% 0.41 -14.4%
Canara Robeco Conservative Hybrid Fund Canara Robeco Mutual Fund 8.4% 4.2% 0.45 -10.2%

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 Conservative Hybrid scheme is

75–90% debt, 10–25% equity.

Mostly debt with a slice of equity for growth. Steadier than an equity fund and more rewarding than a pure debt fund over long periods, with real but limited downside.

Who it suits. Retirees and anybody who needs the money to be mostly safe but not idle.

How long money should stay. 3 years or more.

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Questions people ask

What is the NAV of DSP Conservative Hybrid Fund — Direct Plan — Growth?

₹69.3464 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 DSP Conservative Hybrid 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 Growth option mean?

Growth reinvests everything the fund earns back into the NAV. Nothing is paid out, so the NAV rises with returns and you are taxed only when you sell. For anybody who does not need income from the investment, Growth is the simpler and usually the more tax-efficient option.

What kind of scheme is this?

75–90% debt, 10–25% equity. Mostly debt with a slice of equity for growth. Steadier than an equity fund and more rewarding than a pure debt fund over long periods, with real but limited downside.

How long should money stay in it?

Typically 3 years or more. Retirees and anybody who needs the money to be mostly safe but not idle.