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JM Flexi Cap Fund

Regular Plan IDCW Option Flexi Cap JM Financial Mutual Fund Code 109523 ISIN INF192K01619

Fund basics

Launched25 Sep 2008 17.9 years of history
CategoryFlexi CapSEBI classification
Plan & optionRegular · IDCW Option code 109523
BenchmarkNifty 500 used for alpha & beta below
NAV as on27 Aug 2026source AMFI

Returns

No CAGR is shown for an 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.

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) 77.7345
Direct 105.7580

The two NAVs are 26.5% apart today. They started life at the same ₹10 — the whole of that gap is what the commission has taken out of the Regular plan since launch.

Everything the NAV says

Computed from 4,406 published NAVs between 25 Sep 2008 and 27 Aug 2026 — 17.9 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
JM Flexi Cap Fund Regular 4.146.346.11 4.5415.1215.80 18.0713.4712.19
Nifty 500 benchmark 1.702.710.73 3.9512.5111.37 15.46
Flexi Cap category median · 34 funds 3.2712.7211.29 12.83

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 Flexi Cap — 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
JM Flexi Cap Fund Regular 21.06 0.41 0.57 0.97 2.55 -42.41
Nifty 500 benchmark 17.17 0.35 0.47 -37.31

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
21.1%15.0%0.410.57

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
-42.4%29 months-8.0%
0%-15%-29%-44%201020122014201620182020202220242026
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
128.7%7.2%-36.0%32%
Worst-36.0%Median7.2%Best128.7%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

32.9%20217.8%202240.0%202333.3%2024-6.8%20254.0%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 ₹858,440 today, an XIRR of 14.32% 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.

How it compares with its closest peers

The same category, the same plan, the same option — the only comparison that means anything. A Flexi Cap Regular Plan IDCW Option scheme against another of exactly the same kind.

Return window
Scheme Return Alpha Beta Volatility Sharpe Max fall
JM Flexi Cap Fund JM Financial Mutual Fund · this scheme 15.1% 2.6% 0.97 21.1% 0.41 -42.4%
360 ONE Flexicap Fund 360 ONE Mutual Fund 17.4% 5.3% 0.98 14.7% 0.74 -18.8%
Axis Flexi Cap Fund Axis Mutual Fund 10.4% -8.8% 0.95 16.8% 0.23 -36.8%
Baroda BNP Paribas Flexi Cap Fund Baroda BNP Paribas Mutual Fund 6.6% -4.0% 1.02 15.5% 0.01 -30.7%
HDFC Flexi Cap Fund HDFC Mutual Fund 6.5% -8.2% 1.10 22.0% 0.00 -66.3%
ITI Flexi Cap Fund ITI Mutual Fund 16.9% 5.5% 1.07 15.3% 0.68 -22.0%
Nippon India Flexi Cap Fund Nippon India Mutual Fund 11.1% -0.2% 0.98 60.6% 0.08 -62.6%
Quant Flexi Cap Fund quant Mutual Fund 16.7% 10.5% 0.98 18.9% 0.54 -66.0%
Union Flexi Cap Fund Union Mutual Fund 7.2% -1.0% 0.94 16.1% 0.05 -45.8%

Alpha and beta are against Nifty 500. 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 Flexi Cap scheme is

At least 65% in equity, with no limit on where across large, mid and small.

The manager decides the mix and can change it. That freedom is the whole product — you are buying a judgement, not a rulebook — so the manager's record matters more here than in almost any other category.

Who it suits. Somebody who wants one equity fund rather than three, and trusts a manager to allocate.

How long money should stay. 5 to 7 years.

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Questions people ask

What is the NAV of JM Flexi Cap Fund — Regular Plan — IDCW Option?

₹77.7345 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 JM Flexi Cap 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 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?

At least 65% in equity, with no limit on where across large, mid and small. The manager decides the mix and can change it. That freedom is the whole product — you are buying a judgement, not a rulebook — so the manager's record matters more here than in almost any other category.

How long should money stay in it?

Typically 5 to 7 years. Somebody who wants one equity fund rather than three, and trusts a manager to allocate.