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HDFC Silver ETF

Growth Option Index Funds HDFC Mutual Fund Code 150556 ISIN INF179KC1DI2

Fund basics

Launched2 Sep 2022 4.0 years of history
CategoryIndex FundsSEBI classification
Plan & optionRegular · Growth Option code 150556
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.

Everything the NAV says

Computed from 984 published NAVs between 2 Sep 2022 and 27 Aug 2026 — 4.0 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 Silver ETF Regular 9.74-8.33-8.32 102.6546.53 44.79
Nifty 100 benchmark 1.051.76-2.99 0.6610.509.33 12.76
Index Funds category median · 188 funds 5.597.638.89 11.16

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 Index Funds — 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 Silver ETF Regular 34.19 1.17 1.66 -0.08 47.24 -44.41
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 47 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
47.24%-0.080%41.44%63%-208%43.04%0.96-616.36

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
34.2%24.1%1.171.66

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
-44.4%-37.0%
0%-16%-32%-48%20242026
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
251.3%28.6%-2.1%2%
Worst-2.1%Median28.6%Best251.3%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

0.6%202318.0%2024160.8%20253.7%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.

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

100.00%Cash & Equivalents

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 stocks3
Top 5 stocks
Top 10 stocks
Top 20 stocks
Largest single holding
Largest sector— · —
Number of sectors0
Effective stocks
Cash & equivalents100.00%

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.

Largest holdings

Top 10 are 100.0% of the fund. A high number means a concentrated portfolio — fewer names doing more of the work, for better and for worse.

SILVER 97.91%
Net Current Assets 2.09%

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 Index Funds Growth Option scheme against another of exactly the same kind.

Return window
Scheme Return Alpha Beta Volatility Sharpe Max fall
HDFC Silver ETF HDFC Mutual Fund · this scheme 46.5% 47.2% -0.08 34.2% 1.17 -44.4%
HDFC BSE 500 ETF HDFC Mutual Fund 12.2% 2.3% 1.04 13.4% 0.43 -18.8%
HDFC BSE Sensex ETF HDFC Mutual Fund 7.2% -0.7% 1.00 16.0% 0.04 -37.9%
HDFC Gold ETF HDFC Mutual Fund 38.4% 17.2% -0.04 15.3% 2.08 -29.6%
HDFC NIFTY 100 ETF HDFC Mutual Fund 11.0% 0.3% 0.99 12.9% 0.35 -17.3%
HDFC NIFTY 1D Rate Liquid ETF HDFC Mutual Fund -1.6% 0.00 0.1% -13.55 0.0%
HDFC NIFTY 50 ETF HDFC Mutual Fund 9.1% 0.1% 1.01 16.0% 0.16 -38.4%
HDFC NIFTY BANK ETF HDFC Mutual Fund 10.1% 1.3% 1.15 18.7% 0.19 -20.6%
HDFC NIFTY GROWTH SECTORS 15 ETF HDFC Mutual Fund 7.6% -1.5% 0.82 12.7% 0.08 -21.9%

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 Index Funds scheme is

Track an index, holding its constituents in its proportions.

No manager, no stock picking, and an expense ratio a fraction of an active fund's. Over long periods that fee gap alone beats a majority of active large-cap funds — which is the strongest argument index funds have.

Who it suits. Anybody who would rather have the market's return at the lowest cost than try to beat it.

How long money should stay. 5 years or more.

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Questions people ask

What is the NAV of HDFC Silver ETF — — Growth Option?

₹229.9436 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 Silver ETF?

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?

Track an index, holding its constituents in its proportions. No manager, no stock picking, and an expense ratio a fraction of an active fund's. Over long periods that fee gap alone beats a majority of active large-cap funds — which is the strongest argument index funds have.

How long should money stay in it?

Typically 5 years or more. Anybody who would rather have the market's return at the lowest cost than try to beat it.