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HDFC Floating Interest Rates Fund

Direct Plan Monthly IDCW HDFC Mutual Fund Code 118960 ISIN INF179K01VO9

Fund basics

Launched1 Jan 2013 13.7 years of history
CategoryIncome/Debt Oriented Schemes - Floating Interest Rates FundSEBI classification
Plan & optionDirect · Monthly IDCW code 118960
Benchmark no equity benchmark for this category
NAV as on25 Aug 2026source AMFI

Returns

No CAGR is shown for an Monthly 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.

Everything the NAV says

Computed from 3,299 published NAVs between 1 Jan 2013 and 27 Aug 2026 — 13.7 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 Floating Interest Rates Fund Direct 0.250.270.17 0.31-0.12-0.07 0.03-0.060.02

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 Income/Debt Oriented Schemes - Floating Interest Rates 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 25 Aug 2026.

Risk measures

Fund name Volatility Sharpe Sortino Beta Alpha Max fall
HDFC Floating Interest Rates Fund Direct 2.44 -2.71 -2.88 -2.44

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
2.4%2.3%-2.71-2.88

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
-2.4%2 months-1.3%
0%-1%-1%-2%2014201620182020202220242026
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
1.3%0.0%-1.4%44%
Worst-1.4%Median0.0%Best1.3%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

0.0%20210.0%20220.0%2023-0.1%20240.0%20250.3%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 ₹599,831 today, an XIRR of -0.01% 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

99.02%Debt
0.69%Cash & Equivalents
0.29%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 stocks154
Top 5 stocks19.27%
Top 10 stocks29.65%
Top 20 stocks42.93%
Largest single holding6.62%
Largest sectorCRISIL - AAA · 44.59%
Number of sectors20
Effective stocks63.6
Cash & equivalents0.69%

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 — 44.6%Sovereign — 11.7%CRISIL - A1+ — 8.9%CRISIL - AAA(SO) — 7.3%CRISIL - AA — 4.0%ICRA - AAA — 3.7%CARE - AAA — 3.5%CRISIL - AA+ — 3.4%Other — 13.0%CRISIL - AAA44.6%Sovereign11.7%CRISIL - A1+8.9%CRISIL - AAA(SO)7.3%CRISIL - AA4.0%ICRA - AAA3.7%CARE - AAA3.5%CRISIL - AA+3.4%Other13.0%
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 29.8% of the fund. A high number means a concentrated portfolio — fewer names doing more of the work, for better and for worse.

6.64% GOI MAT 071231 6.62%
Shivshakti Securitisation Trust (Originator - Sikka Ports & Terminals Limited) 4.15%
Floating Rate GOI 2034 3.12%
Jubilant Beverages Limited 2.94%
National Bank for Agri & Rural Dev. 2.44%
Siddhivinayak Securitisation Trust (Originator - Sikka Ports & Terminals Limited) 2.40%
National Bank for Agri & Rural Dev. 2.26%
National Bank for Agri & Rural Dev. 2.14%
TREPS - Tri-party Repo 1.86%
Aadhar Housing Finance Limited 1.83%
Canara Bank 1.75%
Small Industries Development Bank 1.69%

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 - Floating Interest Rates Fund scheme is

A SEBI-classified mutual fund scheme.

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Questions people ask

What is the NAV of HDFC Floating Interest Rates Fund — Direct Plan — Monthly IDCW?

₹10.1707 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 HDFC Floating Interest Rates 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 Monthly 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?

A SEBI-classified mutual fund scheme.