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Edelweiss CRISIL IBX 50:50 Gilt Plus SDL Short Duration Index Fund

Direct Plan IDCW Index Funds Edelweiss Mutual Fund Code 151397 ISIN INF754K01RL3

Fund basics

Launched16 Feb 2023 3.5 years of history
CategoryIndex FundsSEBI classification
Plan & optionDirect · IDCW code 151397
BenchmarkNifty 100 used for alpha & beta below
NAV as on25 Aug 2026source AMFI

Returns

No CAGR is shown for an IDCW scheme, and that is deliberate. Its NAV falls by every payout it makes, so a return computed from NAV alone understates it by exactly the amount distributed — and AMFI's daily file carries no payout history to add back. A wrong number wearing the right label is worse than an honest gap. The Growth option of this same fund is the one to compare on returns.

Direct vs Regular — same portfolio, two prices

The same fund, the same manager, the same shares. The only difference is the distributor commission inside the Regular plan's expense ratio — charged every year, on the whole balance.

PlanNAV1y3y5y
Direct (this page) 12.1142
Regular 11.9242

The two NAVs are 1.6% apart today. They started life at the same ₹10 — the whole of that gap is what the commission has taken out of the Regular plan since launch.

Everything the NAV says

Computed from 852 published NAVs between 16 Feb 2023 and 27 Aug 2026 — 3.5 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
Edelweiss CRISIL IBX 50:50 Gilt Plus SDL Short Duration Index Fund Direct -5.88-4.17-3.84 -0.545.13 5.54
Nifty 100 benchmark 1.051.76-2.99 0.6610.509.33 12.76
Index Funds category median · 171 funds 5.838.039.81 11.77

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 Index 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 25 Aug 2026.

Risk measures

Fund name Volatility Sharpe Sortino Beta Alpha Max fall
Edelweiss CRISIL IBX 50:50 Gilt Plus SDL Short Duration Index Fund Direct 3.45 -0.40 -0.41 0.03 -1.07 -6.21
Nifty 100 benchmark 17.12 0.23 0.32 -37.03

Risk measures use a risk-free rate of 6.5% and are stated so they can be checked — a ratio quoted without its risk-free rate cannot be. Beta and alpha need an index, so they are blank for the benchmark row itself.

Risk

VolatilityDownside volatilitySharpeSortino
3.5%3.3%-0.40-0.41

Sharpe and Sortino use a risk-free rate of 6.5%, roughly the 10-year government bond. Both are stated so the figure can be checked — a ratio quoted without its risk-free rate cannot be.

The worst it has been

Deepest fallTime to recoverToday, from its peak
-6.2%-5.9%
0%-2%-5%-7%20242026
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
10.2%8.1%-1.2%3%
Worst-1.2%Median8.1%Best10.2%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

8.2%20247.8%2025-2.7%2026
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

97.48%Debt
2.52%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 97.5%97.5%Unclassified 97.5%
Against AMFI's half-yearly ranking — companies 1–100 by market value are Large, 101–250 Mid, 251 and below Small. The rest is unclassified — debt, cash, foreign holdings, gold or fund units, which AMFI does not rank. This is what tells you whether a fund is living up to its category label or quietly drifting.

Concentration

Number of stocks13
Top 5 stocks66.53%
Top 10 stocks87.66%
Top 20 stocks97.48%
Largest single holding21.48%
Largest sectorSOVEREIGN · 97.48%
Number of sectors1
Effective stocks8.7
Cash & equivalents2.52%

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 — 97.5%Other — 2.5%SOVEREIGN97.5%Other2.5%
Where the equity money sits, by industry. The biggest few sectors decide most of what this fund does in any given year — a fund heavy in one sector is making a bet, whether or not its name says so.

Largest holdings

Top 10 are 87.7% of the fund. A high number means a concentrated portfolio — fewer names doing more of the work, for better and for worse.

7.32% GOVT OF INDIA RED 13-11-2030 21.48%
7.59% KARNATAKA SDL 15-02-2027 17.51%
7.17% GUJARAT SDL RED 08-01-2030 10.48%
7.10% GOVT OF INDIA RED 18-04-2029 9.94%
7.17% GOVT OF INDIA RED 17-04-2030 7.12%
7.38% GOVT OF INDIA RED 20-06-2027 6.33%
6.13% GOVT OF INDIA RED 04-06-2028 4.17%
8.28% GUJARAT SDL RED 13-02-2029 3.59%
7.76% KARNATAKA SDL RED 13-12-2027 3.53%
6.75% GOVT OF INDIA RED 23-12-2029 3.51%
7.59% GUJARAT SDL RED 15-02-2027 3.50%
7.2% GUJARAT SDL RED 14-06-2027 3.50%

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 with its closest peers

The same category, the same plan, the same option — the only comparison that means anything. A Index Funds Direct Plan IDCW scheme against another of exactly the same kind.

Return window
Scheme Return Alpha Beta Volatility Sharpe Max fall
Edelweiss CRISIL IBX 50:50 Gilt Plus SDL Short Duration Index Fund Edelweiss Mutual Fund · this scheme 5.1% -1.1% 0.03 3.5% -0.40 -6.2%
Aditya Birla Sun Life Nifty 50 Equal Weight index Fund Aditya Birla Sun Life Mutual Fund 13.9% 3.4% 0.99 13.6% 0.54 -18.0%
Aditya Birla Sun Life Nifty 50 Index Fund Aditya Birla Sun Life Mutual Fund 8.0% -1.8% 0.99 19.9% 0.07 -69.2%
Aditya Birla Sun Life Nifty Smallcap 50 Index Fund Aditya Birla Sun Life Mutual Fund 22.3% 6.2% 1.18 20.0% 0.79 -36.7%
BANDHAN CRISIL IBX 90:10 SDL PLUS GILT - APRIL 2032 INDEX FUND Bandhan Mutual Fund 0.8% -4.4% 0.09 4.8% -1.19 -6.3%
BANDHAN CRISIL IBX 90:10 SDL PLUS GILT - NOV 2026 INDEX FUND Bandhan Mutual Fund 0.2% -5.2% 0.03 4.6% -1.37 -4.7%
BANDHAN CRISIL IBX 90:10 SDL PLUS GILT - SEPTEMBER 2027 INDEX FUND Bandhan Mutual Fund 0.1% -5.0% 0.03 4.8% -1.34 -5.8%
BANDHAN CRISIL IBX GILT APRIL 2026 INDEX FUND Bandhan Mutual Fund 0.0% -5.2% 0.02 4.5% -1.44 -5.5%
BANDHAN CRISIL IBX GILT APRIL 2028 INDEX FUND Bandhan Mutual Fund -1.1% -6.1% 0.08 5.2% -1.45 -7.9%

Alpha and beta are against Nifty 100. 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 Index Funds scheme is

Track an index, holding its constituents in its proportions.

No manager, no stock picking, and an expense ratio a fraction of an active fund's. Over long periods that fee gap alone beats a majority of active large-cap funds — which is the strongest argument index funds have.

Who it suits. Anybody who would rather have the market's return at the lowest cost than try to beat it.

How long money should stay. 5 years or more.

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Questions people ask

What is the NAV of Edelweiss CRISIL IBX 50:50 Gilt Plus SDL Short Duration Index Fund — Direct Plan — IDCW?

₹12.1142 as on 25 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 Edelweiss CRISIL IBX 50:50 Gilt Plus SDL Short Duration Index 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 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?

Track an index, holding its constituents in its proportions. No manager, no stock picking, and an expense ratio a fraction of an active fund's. Over long periods that fee gap alone beats a majority of active large-cap funds — which is the strongest argument index funds have.

How long should money stay in it?

Typically 5 years or more. Anybody who would rather have the market's return at the lowest cost than try to beat it.