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Kotak Money Market Fund

Option (Growth) IDCW

Fund basics

Launched1 Jan 2013 13.8 years of history
CategoryMoney MarketSEBI classification
Plan & optionDirect · (Growth) code 119746
Benchmark— no equity benchmark for this category
NAV as on28 Oct 2026source AMFI

Computed from 3,625 published NAVs between 1 Jan 2013 and 28 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
Kotak Money Market Fund Direct 0.602.203.40 6.527.406.67 6.276.667.24
Money Market category median · 26 funds ——— 6.307.276.69 —6.70—

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 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 28 Oct 2026.

Risk measures

Fund name Volatility Sharpe Sortino Beta Alpha Max fall
Kotak Money Market Fund Direct 0.55 1.64 3.52 — — -0.81

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%1.643.52

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

The worst it has been

Deepest fallTime to recoverToday, from its peak
-0.8%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%7.6%3.7%0%
Worst3.7%Median7.6%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%20214.9%20227.4%20237.8%20247.5%20254.4%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 ₹718,994 today, an XIRR of 7.18% 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

98.94%Debt
0.71%Cash & Equivalents
0.35%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 99.3%99.3%Unclassified 99.3%
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 stocks108
Top 5 stocks16.88%
Top 10 stocks28.28%
Top 20 stocks44.79%
Largest single holding4.45%
Largest sectorCRISIL A1+ · 46.19%
Number of sectors6
Effective stocks63.4
Cash & equivalents0.71%

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+ — 46.2%CARE A1+ — 22.1%SOV — 12.9%ICRA A1+ — 12.0%FITCH A1+ — 5.9%Other — 1.2%CRISIL A1+46.2%CARE A1+22.1%SOV12.9%ICRA A1+12.0%FITCH A1+5.9%Other1.2%
Where the equity money sits, by industry.

Largest holdings

Top 10 are 28.3% of the fund. A high number means a concentrated portfolio — fewer names doing more of the work, for better and for worse.

182 DAYS TREASURY BILL 04/02/2027 4.45%
NATIONAL BANK FOR AGRICULTURE & RURAL DEVELOPMENT 3.82%
182 DAYS TREASURY BILL 11/02/2027 3.11%
PUNJAB NATIONAL BANK 2.84%
INDUSIND BANK LTD. 2.66%
YES BANK LTD. 2.64%
SMALL INDUSTRIES DEVELOPMENT BANK OF INDIA 2.48%
HDFC BANK LTD. 2.12%
NATIONAL BANK FOR AGRICULTURE & RURAL DEVELOPMENT 2.12%
SMALL INDUSTRIES DEVELOPMENT BANK OF INDIA 2.04%
HDFC BANK LTD. 1.96%
182 DAYS TREASURY BILL 21/01/2027 1.79%

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₹96.1 cr shares added, valued at this filing
Sold₹1,084 cr shares reduced or exited
New positions5 stocks not held a month ago
Sold out of2 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 5
IN002026Y162 50,000,000 entered — 487 487
IN002026Y170 34,500,000 entered — 336 336
INE692A16MQ5 25,000 entered — 235 235
INE556F16CD0 10,000 entered — 95.6 95.6
INE674K14CS4 1,400 entered — 67.2 67.2
Added tobought more shares than last month 1
INE556F16CC2 10,000 +66.7% +0.5% 96.1 240
Trimmedcut the share count, without selling out 5
IN002025Y479 60,000,000 -80.0% +0.4% 598 149
INE261F16AD1 20,000 -40.0% +0.5% 194 291
INE238AD6BP3 17,500 -70.0% +0.5% 171 73.4
INE028A16KZ7 10,000 -50.0% +0.5% 97.0 97.0
INE040A16IJ0 2,500 -20.0% +0.5% 24.4 97.5
Sold out ofheld last month, gone this month 2
IN002025Y461 25,000,000 exited — 248 —
IN2220210214 5,000,000 exited — 50.0 —

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 Direct 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
Kotak Money Market Fund Kotak Mahindra Mutual Fund · this scheme 7.4% — — 0.6% 1.64 -0.8%
Tata Money Market Fund Tata Mutual Fund 7.5% — — 0.5% 1.99 -6.6%
Axis Money Market Fund Axis Mutual Fund 7.5% — — 0.5% 1.83 -1.2%
Bandhan Money Market Fund Bandhan Mutual Fund 7.4% — — 0.5% 1.79 -1.3%
Franklin India Money Market Fund Franklin Templeton Mutual Fund 7.4% — — 0.5% 1.67 -1.2%
Nippon India Money Market Fund Nippon India Mutual Fund 7.4% — — 0.6% 1.64 -0.9%
Aditya Birla Sun Life Money Market Fund Aditya Birla Sun Life Mutual Fund 7.4% — — 0.6% 1.62 -1.4%
Mirae Asset Money Market Fund Mirae Asset Mutual Fund 7.4% — — 0.6% 1.63 -0.2%
ICICI Prudential Money Market Fund ICICI Prudential Mutual Fund 7.4% — — 0.6% 1.57 -1.2%

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 Kotak Money Market Fund — Direct Plan — (Growth)?

₹4,929.9927 as on 28 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 Kotak 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.