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HDFC Money Market Fund

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Fund basics

Launched2 Apr 2006 20.6 years of history
CategoryMoney MarketSEBI classification
Plan & optionRegular · Growth Option code 101993
Benchmark— no equity benchmark for this category
NAV as on27 Oct 2026source AMFI

Computed from 5,698 published NAVs between 2 Apr 2006 and 28 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 Money Market Fund Regular 0.582.143.29 6.307.226.49 6.256.587.31
Money Market category median · 31 funds ——— 6.076.996.44 —6.55—

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 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 27 Oct 2026.

Risk measures

Fund name Volatility Sharpe Sortino Beta Alpha Max fall
HDFC Money Market Fund Regular 0.55 1.30 2.64 — — -1.40

Risk-free rate 6.5%. Beta and alpha need an index, so the benchmark's own row leaves them blank.

Risk

VolatilityDownside volatilitySharpeSortino
0.6%0.3%1.302.64

Risk-free rate 6.5%, roughly the 10-year government bond.

The worst it has been

Deepest fallTime to recoverToday, from its peak
-1.4%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
9.9%7.7%3.5%0%
Worst3.5%Median7.7%Best9.9%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

3.8%20214.7%20227.3%20237.7%20247.4%20254.2%2026InvestVerdict
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 ₹715,770 today, an XIRR of 7.00% 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

100.07%Debt
4.11%REITs / InvITs
0.34%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

—Large
—Mid
—Small
Unclassified 104.5%104.5%Unclassified 104.5%
AMFI's half-yearly ranking: 1–100 Large, 101–250 Mid, 251+ Small. The rest is debt, cash, foreign holdings or fund units, which AMFI does not rank.

Concentration

Number of stocks120
Top 5 stocks16.04%
Top 10 stocks28.08%
Top 20 stocks46.06%
Largest single holding3.53%
Largest sectorCRISIL - A1+ · 51.75%
Number of sectors6
Effective stocks63.1
Cash & equivalents-4.52%

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+ — 51.8%CARE - A1+ — 19.3%Sovereign — 15.0%ICRA - A1+ — 11.7%IND - A1+ — 6.5%Other — 0.3%CRISIL - A1+51.8%CARE - A1+19.3%Sovereign15.0%ICRA - A1+11.7%IND - A1+6.5%Other0.3%
Where the equity money sits, by industry.

Largest holdings

Top 10 are 28.1% of the fund. A high number means a concentrated portfolio — fewer names doing more of the work, for better and for worse.

Indian Overseas Bank 3.53%
Indusind Bank Ltd. 3.53%
Small Industries Development Bank 3.40%
Small Industries Development Bank 3.01%
National Bank for Agri & Rural Dev. 2.57%
182 Days TBILL MAT 280127 2.49%
National Bank for Agri & Rural Dev. 2.48%
182 Days TBILL MAT 040227 2.48%
Small Industries Development Bank 2.30%
Punjab & Sind Bank 2.29%
Punjab & Sind Bank 2.02%
TREPS - Tri-party Repo 2.00%

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 the manager did last month

Between the filing of 30 Jun 2026 and 31 Jul 2026. A position grows for two reasons — the manager bought more, or the price went up — and only the first is a decision. The share count is what separates them, because it moves only when somebody trades.

Bought₹385 cr shares added, valued at this filing
Sold₹1,238 cr shares reduced or exited
New positions22 stocks not held a month ago
Sold out of9 stocks fully exited
Price move of what it held +0.52% the market's doing, not the manager's

Swipe the table sideways for share counts, price change and values.

Stock Shares traded Change in shares Change in price Value of the trade₹ crore Position now₹ crore
New positiondid not hold this a month ago 8
182 Days TBILL MAT 280127 80,000,000 entered — 779 779
182 Days TBILL MAT 210127 50,000,000 entered — 487 487
LIC Housing Finance Ltd. 10,000 entered — 481 481
UCO Bank 10,000 entered — 470 470
Canara Bank 10,000 entered — 470 470
ICICI Securities Ltd 5,000 entered — 239 239
182 Days Tbill Mat 311226 24,000,000 entered — 235 235
ICICI Securities Ltd 4,000 entered — 191 191
Added tobought more shares than last month 5
Bank of Baroda 4,000 +57.1% +0.5% 194 534
Muthoot Fincorp Limited 2,000 +76.9% +0.7% 95.0 218
ICICI Bank Ltd. 1,000 +50.0% +0.5% 47.9 144
Punjab National Bank 500 +12.5% +0.5% 24.2 218
Small Industries Development Bank 500 +10.0% +0.5% 24.1 265
Trimmedcut the share count, without selling out 8
364 Days Tbill Mat 060826 41,500,000 -83.0% +0.4% 415 84.9
Canara Bank 6,000 -52.2% +0.5% 290 266
182 Days TBILL MAT 060826 12,500,000 -41.7% +0.4% 125 175
Punjab National Bank 2,500 -83.3% +0.5% 120 24.1
Axis Bank Ltd. 2,000 -22.2% +0.5% 96.9 339
Aditya Birla Capital ltd. 2,000 -40.0% +0.6% 96.5 145
Yes Bank Ltd. 1,000 -5.0% +0.7% 48.2 915
Small Industries Development Bank 1,000 -50.0% +0.5% 47.1 47.1
Sold out ofheld last month, gone this month 8
364 Days Tbill Mat 300726 43,000,000 exited — 428 —
Small Industries Development Bank 5,500 exited — 269 —
ONGC Petro Additions Limited (Letter Of Comfort By ONGC Limited) 4,400 exited — 217 —
182 Days TBILL MAT 230726 20,000,000 exited — 199 —
SMFG India Credit Company Ltd 4,000 exited — 197 —
Export - Import Bank of India 4,000 exited — 194 —
364 Days Tbill Mat 230726 5,000,000 exited — 49.9 —
182 Days TBILL MAT 130826 5,000,000 exited — 49.7 —

Only stocks and fund units are listed. Treasury bills, repo and money-market lines roll over every month by design — they are larger in rupees than most equity trades and are not decisions, so they are summarised as cash above rather than listed as activity. Share counts and values are the fund house's own filing. What a position cost when it was first bought is in no monthly disclosure, so a value here is what the shares were worth at the later filing, not what was paid.

How it compares in its category

Against the Money Market Regular schemes with the highest three-year return. Same category, same plan — the only comparison that means anything. The list re-sorts itself as returns move; it is an ordering by one number, not a view on which fund anyone should hold.

Return window
Scheme Return Alpha Beta Volatility Sharpe Max fall
HDFC Money Market Fund HDFC Mutual Fund · this scheme 7.2% — — 0.6% 1.30 -1.4%
UTI - Money Market Fund UTI Mutual Fund 7.3% — — 0.6% 1.47 -0.8%
Axis Money Market Fund Axis Mutual Fund 7.3% — — 0.5% 1.50 -1.2%
Aditya Birla Sun Life Money Market Fund Aditya Birla Sun Life Mutual Fund 7.3% — — 0.6% 1.37 -9.6%
Franklin India Money Market Fund Franklin Templeton Mutual Fund 7.2% — — 0.5% 1.37 -1.2%
Tata Money Market Fund Tata Mutual Fund 7.3% — — 0.5% 1.48 -6.6%
ICICI Prudential Money Market Fund - Cash Option ICICI Prudential Mutual Fund 7.3% — — 0.6% 1.35 -1.2%
Nippon India Money Market Fund Nippon India Mutual Fund 7.3% — — 0.6% 1.36 -0.9%
Kotak Money Market Fund Kotak Mahindra Mutual Fund 7.2% — — 0.6% 1.36 -0.8%

Alpha and beta are against the category index. 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 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 HDFC Money Market Fund — Regular Plan — Growth Option?

₹6,200.4466 as on 27 Oct 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 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.