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HDFC Dynamic Term Fund

Regular Plan Quarterly IDCW Option HDFC Mutual Fund Code 101873 ISIN INF179K01871

Fund basics

Launched3 Apr 2006 20.4 years of history
CategoryIncome/Debt Oriented Schemes - Dynamic Term FundSEBI classification
Plan & optionRegular · Quarterly IDCW Option code 101873
Benchmark no equity benchmark for this category
NAV as on27 Aug 2026source AMFI

Returns

No CAGR is shown for an Quarterly IDCW Option 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.

Everything the NAV says

Computed from 4,941 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 Dynamic Term Fund Regular 0.392.091.02 2.862.020.71 1.260.201.03

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 Income/Debt Oriented Schemes - Dynamic Term Fund — the middle fund, not a ranking, and a median rather than an average so that one mis-stated scheme cannot move it. As on 27 Aug 2026.

Risk measures

Fund name Volatility Sharpe Sortino Beta Alpha Max fall
HDFC Dynamic Term Fund Regular 4.64 -0.96 -1.16 -11.31

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
4.6%3.9%-0.96-1.16

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
-11.3%61 months-1.6%
0%-4%-8%-11%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
13.2%1.0%-7.0%35%
Worst-7.0%Median1.0%Best13.2%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

3.1%2021-1.3%20221.5%20232.8%20240.6%20251.8%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 ₹624,454 today, an XIRR of 1.58% 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

88.21%Debt
6.71%REITs / InvITs
4.62%Cash & Equivalents
0.46%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 stocks36
Top 5 stocks46.02%
Top 10 stocks65.95%
Top 20 stocks83.09%
Largest single holding13.79%
Largest sectorSovereign · 70.87%
Number of sectors6
Effective stocks17.0
Cash & equivalents4.62%

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 — 70.9%CRISIL - AAA — 12.6%Transport Infrastructure — 5.3%ICRA - AAA — 4.7%Cash & Equivalents — 4.6%Other — 1.8%Sovereign70.9%CRISIL - AAA12.6%Transport Infrastructure5.3%ICRA - AAA4.7%Cash & Equivalents4.6%Other1.8%
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 66.0% of the fund. A high number means a concentrated portfolio — fewer names doing more of the work, for better and for worse.

7.34% GOI MAT 220464 13.79%
7.25% GOI MAT 120663 10.11%
6.9% GOI MAT 150465 8.75%
7.3% GOI MAT 190653 8.46%
REC Limited. 4.91%
National Bank for Agri & Rural Dev. 4.73%
National Bank for Agri & Rural Dev. 4.72%
Indus Infra Trust 3.87%
7.27% Gujarat SDL ISD 171225 MAT 171234 3.74%
Pipeline Infrastructure Pvt. Ltd. 2.87%
7.24% GOI MAT 180855 2.80%
TREPS - Tri-party Repo 2.52%

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 Income/Debt Oriented Schemes - Dynamic Term Fund scheme is

A SEBI-classified mutual fund scheme.

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Questions people ask

What is the NAV of HDFC Dynamic Term Fund — Regular Plan — Quarterly IDCW Option?

₹12.7977 as on 27 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 Dynamic 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 Quarterly IDCW Option 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?

A SEBI-classified mutual fund scheme.