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DSP Gilt Fund

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Fund basics

Launched2 Jan 2013 13.8 years of history
CategoryGilt FundsSEBI classification
Plan & optionDirect · Growth code 119099
Benchmark— no equity benchmark for this category
NAV as on28 Oct 2026source AMFI

Computed from 3,306 published NAVs between 2 Jan 2013 and 28 Aug 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 Gilt Fund Direct 0.153.502.06 5.066.866.22 6.947.497.89
Gilt Funds category median · 32 funds ——— 1.396.175.45 —6.64—

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 Gilt Funds — the middle fund, not a ranking, and a median rather than an average so that one mis-stated scheme cannot move it. As on 28 Oct 2026.

Risk measures

Fund name Volatility Sharpe Sortino Beta Alpha Max fall
DSP Gilt Fund Direct 4.86 0.07 0.10 — — -7.59

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

Risk

VolatilityDownside volatilitySharpeSortino
4.9%3.5%0.070.10

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

The worst it has been

Deepest fallTime to recoverToday, from its peak
-7.6%9 months-1.2%
0%-3%-5%-8%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
19.4%7.9%-2.8%4%
Worst-2.8%Median7.9%Best19.4%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

3.7%20213.2%20227.7%202310.8%20245.1%20252.9%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 ₹706,390 today, an XIRR of 6.47% 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

99.58%Debt
0.42%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

—Large
—Mid
—Small
Unclassified 99.6%99.6%Unclassified 99.6%
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 stocks9
Top 5 stocks87.07%
Top 10 stocks99.58%
Top 20 stocks99.58%
Largest single holding46.16%
Largest sectorSovereign · 99.58%
Number of sectors1
Effective stocks3.6
Cash & equivalents0.42%

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 — 99.6%Other — 0.4%Sovereign99.6%Other0.4%
Where the equity money sits, by industry.

Largest holdings

Top 10 are 103.3% of the fund. A high number means a concentrated portfolio — fewer names doing more of the work, for better and for worse.

7.63% GOI 15092056 46.16%
6.90% GOI 15042065 20.59%
7.12% Maharashtra SDL 16072047 8.20%
7.34% GOI 22042064 6.81%
7.48% Uttar Pradesh SDL 22032042 5.31%
7.24% GOI 18082055 4.42%
7.19% GOI 15092060 3.91%
Net Receivables/Payables 3.73%
7.71% GOI 18052066 2.85%
7.33% Madhya Pradesh SDL 19012042 1.33%

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₹317 cr shares added, valued at this filing
Sold₹54.0 cr shares reduced or exited
New positions3 stocks not held a month ago
Sold out of6 stocks fully exited
Price move of what it held -0.88% 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 3
7.71% GOI 18052066 20,500,000 entered — 212 212
7.12% Maharashtra SDL 16072047 9,500,000 entered — 90.2 90.2
7.91% Maharashtra SDL 08042039 5,000,000 entered — 52.7 52.7
Added tobought more shares than last month 2
7.24% GOI 18082055 18,500,000 +127.6% -1.3% 186 332
6.90% GOI 15042065 14,000,000 +66.7% -1.0% 131 327
Trimmedcut the share count, without selling out 1
7.19% GOI 15092060 5,500,000 -55.0% -0.7% 54.0 44.2
Sold out ofheld last month, gone this month 6
91 DAYS T-BILL 2026 15,000,000 exited — 150 —
7.30% GOI 2053 10,500,000 exited — 105 —
7.76% Uttar Pradesh SDL 2041 10,000,000 exited — 102 —
7.65% Madhya Pradesh SDL 2040 5,000,000 exited — 51.5 —
7.64% Telangana SDL 2044 2,741,600 exited — 27.5 —
7.16% GOI 2050 1,000,000 exited — 10.1 —

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 Gilt Funds 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 Gilt Fund DSP Mutual Fund · this scheme 6.9% — — 4.9% 0.07 -7.6%
Bandhan Gilt Fund Bandhan Mutual Fund 8.0% — — 4.7% 0.32 -7.1%
Bandhan 10 year Constant Maturity Gilt Fund Bandhan Mutual Fund 7.9% — — 3.2% 0.45 -5.0%
Axis Gilt Fund Axis Mutual Fund 7.4% — — 3.7% 0.24 -11.1%
ICICI Prudential 10 year Constant Maturity Gilt Fund ICICI Prudential Mutual Fund 7.6% — — 3.0% 0.36 -4.7%
BARODA BNP PARIBAS GILT FUND Baroda BNP Paribas Mutual Fund 6.7% — — 3.4% 0.06 -6.7%
SBI 10 YEAR CONSTANT MATURITY GILT FUND SBI Mutual Fund 7.2% — — 3.0% 0.23 -4.5%
UTI 10 year Constant Maturity Gilt Fund UTI Mutual Fund 7.2% — — 3.0% 0.24 -2.7%
SBI GILT FUND SBI Mutual Fund 6.7% — — 3.2% 0.07 -9.5%

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 Gilt Funds scheme is

At least 80% in government securities.

No credit risk at all — the borrower is the Government of India. All of the movement is interest rates, and it can be considerable. Safe from default is not the same as steady.

Who it suits. Investors taking a deliberate view on interest rates with no credit risk.

How long money should stay. 3 to 5 years.

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Questions people ask

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

₹104.0281 as on 28 Oct 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 Gilt 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?

At least 80% in government securities. No credit risk at all — the borrower is the Government of India. All of the movement is interest rates, and it can be considerable. Safe from default is not the same as steady.

How long should money stay in it?

Typically 3 to 5 years. Investors taking a deliberate view on interest rates with no credit risk.