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Franklin India Money Market Fund

Direct Plan Retail Plan Growth Money Market Franklin Templeton Mutual Fund Code 118506 ISIN INF090I01GV8

Fund basics

Launched1 Jan 2013 13.7 years of history
CategoryMoney MarketSEBI classification
Plan & optionDirect · Retail Plan Growth code 118506
Benchmark no equity benchmark for this category
NAV as on25 Aug 2026source AMFI

Returns

Returns for this scheme are not computed yet — we need at least three years of published NAV. The NAV above is today's, straight from AMFI.

Everything the NAV says

Computed from 3,295 published NAVs between 1 Jan 2013 and 25 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
Franklin India Money Market Fund Direct 0.632.213.34 6.457.406.59 6.306.797.44
Money Market category median · 24 funds 6.397.356.62 6.75

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 Money Market — 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
Franklin India Money Market Fund Direct 0.61 1.48 3.32 -1.16

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
0.6%0.3%1.483.32

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
-1.2%0 monthsAt a high

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
10.4%7.7%3.4%0%
Worst3.4%Median7.7%Best10.4%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%20214.6%20227.4%20237.8%20247.6%20254.2%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.

If you had run a SIP

₹10,000 every month for five years — ₹600,000 invested in all — would be worth ₹718,597 today, an XIRR of 7.15% 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

95.38%Debt
19.90%Cash & Equivalents
4.86%REITs / InvITs
0.27%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

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 stocks38
Top 5 stocks36.17%
Top 10 stocks58.09%
Top 20 stocks81.27%
Largest single holding10.51%
Largest sectorCRISIL A1+ · 43.19%
Number of sectors6
Effective stocks21.8
Cash & equivalents19.90%

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 A1+ — 43.2%CARE A1+ — 26.2%Cash & Equivalents — 19.9%ICRA A1+ — 14.8%SOVEREIGN — 11.9%IND A1+ — 4.1%Other — 0.3%CRISIL A1+43.2%CARE A1+26.2%Cash & Equivalents19.9%ICRA A1+14.8%SOVEREIGN11.9%IND A1+4.1%Other0.3%
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 58.1% of the fund. A high number means a concentrated portfolio — fewer names doing more of the work, for better and for worse.

7.67% Uttar Pradesh SDL (12-Apr-2027) 10.51%
Bajaj Housing Finance Ltd (23-Feb-2027) 7.32%
Piramal Finance Ltd (30-Oct-2026) 6.59%
HDFC Bank Ltd (24-Feb-2027) 6.11%
National Bank For Agriculture & Rural Development (22-Jan-2027) 5.65%
Canara Bank (02-Mar-2027) 4.88%
IDBI Bank Ltd (11-Mar-2027) 4.86%
Embassy Office Parks Reit (12-Mar-2027) 4.86%
National Bank For Agriculture & Rural Development (28-Jan-2027) 3.68%
Credila Financial Services Ltd (01-Mar-2027) 3.64%
Small Industries Development Bank of India (29-Jan-2027) 3.07%
Small Industries Development Bank of India (18-Feb-2027) 2.81%

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 Money Market scheme is

Money-market instruments maturing within a year.

Treasury bills, commercial paper and certificates of deposit. Credit risk is low by construction because the borrowers are the largest institutions in the country.

Who it suits. Conservative parking for up to a year.

How long money should stay. Up to 1 year.

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Questions people ask

What is the NAV of Franklin India Money Market Fund — Direct Plan — Retail Plan Growth?

₹55.8467 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 Franklin India Money Market 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?

Money-market instruments maturing within a year. Treasury bills, commercial paper and certificates of deposit. Credit risk is low by construction because the borrowers are the largest institutions in the country.

How long should money stay in it?

Typically Up to 1 year. Conservative parking for up to a year.