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Edelweiss Ultra Short to Short Term Fund

Direct Plan IDCW Payout Ultra Short Duration Edelweiss Mutual Fund Code 153418 ISIN INF754K01UQ6

Fund basics

Launched21 Mar 2025 1.4 years of history
CategoryUltra Short DurationSEBI classification
Plan & optionDirect · IDCW Payout code 153418
Benchmark no equity benchmark for this category
NAV as on25 Aug 2026source AMFI

Returns

No CAGR is shown for an IDCW Payout 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) 1,036.4992
Regular 1,024.5082

The two NAVs are 1.2% 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 347 published NAVs between 21 Mar 2025 and 27 Aug 2026 — 1.4 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 Ultra Short to Short Term Fund Direct -5.51-3.93-2.94 -0.02 2.49
Ultra Short Duration category median · 32 funds 6.417.226.51 6.66

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 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 Aug 2026.

Risk measures

Fund name Volatility Sharpe Sortino Beta Alpha Max fall
Edelweiss Ultra Short to Short Term Fund Direct 5.00 -0.80 -0.81 -5.92

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
5.0%5.0%-0.80-0.81

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
-5.9%-5.5%
0%-2%-4%-7%2026
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.

Calendar years

2026-2.1%

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

96.44%Debt
3.56%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 96.4%96.4%Unclassified 96.4%
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 stocks25
Top 5 stocks26.93%
Top 10 stocks49.39%
Top 20 stocks88.98%
Largest single holding8.75%
Largest sectorCRISIL AAA · 37.02%
Number of sectors12
Effective stocks23.1
Cash & equivalents3.56%

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 — 37.0%CRISIL A1+ — 17.4%SOVEREIGN — 10.8%ICRA A1+ — 8.7%ICRA AA+ — 4.5%ICRA AAA — 4.5%CARE A1+ — 4.3%Cash & Equivalents — 3.6%FITCH A1+ — 3.5%Other — 5.7%CRISIL AAA37.0%CRISIL A1+17.4%SOVEREIGN10.8%ICRA A1+8.7%ICRA AA+4.5%ICRA AAA4.5%CARE A1+4.3%Cash & Equivalents3.6%FITCH A1+3.5%Other5.7%
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 49.4% of the fund. A high number means a concentrated portfolio — fewer names doing more of the work, for better and for worse.

PUNJAB NATIONAL BANK CD 15-12-26 8.75%
7.74% HPCL NCD RED 02-03-2028 4.56%
7.59%NATIONAL HOUSING BANK NCD 08-09-27 4.54%
7.25% MAHARASHTRA SDL RED 28-12-2026 4.54%
7.35% EXIM BANK SR AA02 NCD 27-07-2028 4.54%
8.75% PIRAMAL FINANCE LTD 29-10-27 4.51%
7.1104% ADITYA BIRLA HSG SR D1 R30-07-27 4.49%
7.123% TATA CAP HSG FI SR B R 21-07-2027 4.49%
7.2337% BAJAJ FINANCE NCD 28-06-27 4.49%
6.6%REC LTD SR 250A NCD 30-06-27 4.48%
7.30% BHARTI TELE XXVII 01-12-27 4.47%
BANK OF BARODA CD RED 06-01-2027 4.36%

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 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 Edelweiss Ultra Short to Short Term Fund — Direct Plan — IDCW Payout?

₹1,036.4992 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 Ultra Short to 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 IDCW Payout 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.