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HDFC Aggressive Hybrid Fund

Regular Plan Growth Option Aggressive Hybrid HDFC Mutual Fund Code 102948 ISIN INF179K01AS4

Fund basics

Launched3 Apr 2006 20.4 years of history
CategoryAggressive HybridSEBI classification
Plan & optionRegular · Growth Option code 102948
BenchmarkNifty 100 used for alpha & beta below
NAV as on26 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.

Regular vs Direct — 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
Regular (this page) 115.0500 -2.90% 7.14% 9.06%
Direct 125.6090 -2.27% 7.83% 9.76%

0.70 percentage points a year separate them over five years. On ₹1,00,000 left for ten years that is ₹253,770 against ₹238,043 — ₹15,728 for holding the same portfolio under a different label.

Everything the NAV says

Computed from 5,023 published NAVs between 3 Apr 2006 and 27 Aug 2026 — 20.4 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
HDFC Aggressive Hybrid Fund Regular 1.003.41-3.27 -2.057.048.75 11.9310.099.74
Nifty 100 benchmark 1.051.76-2.99 0.6610.509.33 12.76
Aggressive Hybrid category median · 36 funds 2.8111.289.74 11.80

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 Regular plan in Aggressive 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 26 Aug 2026.

Risk measures

Fund name Volatility Sharpe Sortino Beta Alpha Max fall
HDFC Aggressive Hybrid Fund Regular 18.17 0.03 0.04 0.78 0.28 -62.03
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.

Against its benchmark

Regressed on the 82 months this fund and Nifty 100 (via Axis Nifty 100 Index Fund) both have. Alpha is Jensen's — the return left over after the market move this fund's own beta would predict.

AlphaBetaFund vs indexUp captureDown captureTracking errorInformation ratioTreynor
0.28%0.7893%-1.44%80%71%5.33%-0.278.02

Up and down capture are the pair worth reading together: a fund that takes 95% of the rises but only 80% of the falls is doing something a headline CAGR will never show you.

Risk

VolatilityDownside volatilitySharpeSortino
18.2%13.0%0.030.04

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
-62.0%16 months-5.6%
0%-23%-46%-69%2008201020122014201620182020202220242026
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
142.5%8.7%-57.1%28%
Worst-57.1%Median8.7%Best142.5%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

25.7%20218.9%202217.7%202312.9%20245.9%2025-5.0%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 ₹711,459 today, an XIRR of 6.76% 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

70.23%Equity
24.59%Debt
2.63%ETF Units
1.56%Cash & Equivalents
0.99%REITs / InvITs

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

49.22%Large
4.62%Mid
16.46%Small
Large Cap 49.2%49.2%Mid Cap 4.6%Small Cap 16.5%16.5%Unclassified 28.1%28.1%Large Cap 49.2%Mid Cap 4.6%Small Cap 16.5%Unclassified 28.1%
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 stocks134
Top 5 stocks24.59%
Top 10 stocks36.47%
Top 20 stocks51.59%
Largest single holding7.19%
Largest sectorBanks · 23.20%
Number of sectors38
Effective stocks46.0
Cash & equivalents1.56%

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

Banks — 23.2%CRISIL - AAA — 13.0%Sovereign — 6.6%Petroleum Products — 4.8%IT - Software — 4.5%Pharmaceuticals & Biotechnology — 4.4%Construction — 4.1%Automobiles — 3.8%Other — 35.5%Banks23.2%CRISIL - AAA13.0%Sovereign6.6%Petroleum Products4.8%IT - Software4.5%Pharmaceuticals & Biotech…4.4%Construction4.1%Automobiles3.8%Other35.5%
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 36.5% of the fund. A high number means a concentrated portfolio — fewer names doing more of the work, for better and for worse.

ICICI Bank Ltd. 7.19%
HDFC Bank Ltd. 6.74%
Reliance Industries Ltd. 4.28%
Axis Bank Ltd. 3.31%
Kotak Mahindra Bank Limited 3.07%
State Bank of India 2.89%
7.34% GOI MAT 220464 2.61%
Larsen and Toubro Ltd. 2.24%
Infosys Limited 2.15%
Bharti Airtel Ltd. 1.99%
Maruti Suzuki India Limited 1.89%
Bajaj Finance Ltd. 1.58%

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 Aggressive Hybrid Regular Plan Growth Option scheme against another of exactly the same kind.

Return window
Scheme Return Alpha Beta Volatility Sharpe Max fall
HDFC Aggressive Hybrid Fund HDFC Mutual Fund · this scheme 7.0% 0.3% 0.78 18.2% 0.03 -62.0%
Axis Aggressive Hybrid Fund Axis Mutual Fund 9.8% -1.5% 0.75 12.2% 0.27 -28.1%
BARODA BNP PARIBAS AGGRESSIVE HYBRID FUND Baroda BNP Paribas Mutual Fund 11.0% 1.5% 0.72 9.9% 0.45 -13.5%
JM Aggressive Hybrid Fund JM Financial Mutual Fund 13.0% 6.5% 0.83 16.7% 0.39 -64.9%
Nippon India Aggressive Hybrid Fund (Existing Number of Segregated Portfolios - 2) Nippon India Mutual Fund 11.5% -0.9% 0.89 12.8% 0.39 -43.3%
Nippon India Aggressive Hybrid Fund (Existing Number of Segregated Portfolios - 2) Nippon India Mutual Fund 31.3% 15.4% 0.41 53.9% 0.46 0.0%
Quant Aggressive Hybrid Fund quant Mutual Fund 13.6% 7.7% 0.78 15.6% 0.45 -55.6%
Tata Aggressive Hybrid Fund Tata Mutual Fund 8.9% -0.3% 0.77 14.5% 0.16 -51.6%

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 Aggressive Hybrid scheme is

65–80% equity, the rest in debt.

One fund that holds both, rebalanced for you. The debt portion cushions falls without giving up much of the rise, and because the fund rebalances internally there is no tax event when it does.

Who it suits. A first investment, or somebody who wants equity exposure with the edges taken off.

How long money should stay. 5 years or more.

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Questions people ask

What is the NAV of HDFC Aggressive Hybrid Fund — Regular Plan — Growth Option?

₹115.0500 as on 26 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 HDFC Aggressive 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?

65–80% equity, the rest in debt. One fund that holds both, rebalanced for you. The debt portion cushions falls without giving up much of the rise, and because the fund rebalances internally there is no tax event when it does.

How long should money stay in it?

Typically 5 years or more. A first investment, or somebody who wants equity exposure with the edges taken off.