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Nippon India Conservative Hybrid Fund (Existing number of Segregated Portfolios - 1)

Regular Plan QUARTERLY IDCW Option Conservative Hybrid Nippon India Mutual Fund Code 102174 ISIN INF204K01FG4

Fund basics

Launched3 Apr 2006 20.4 years of history
CategoryConservative HybridSEBI classification
Plan & optionRegular · QUARTERLY IDCW Option code 102174
Benchmark no equity benchmark for this category
NAV as on25 Aug 2026source AMFI

Returns

No CAGR is shown for an QUARTERLY 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) 12.3824
Direct 13.0495

The two NAVs are 5.1% 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 4,925 published NAVs between 3 Apr 2006 and 25 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
Nippon India Conservative Hybrid Fund (Existing number of Segregated Portfolios - 1) Regular 1.040.610.24 0.610.901.10 0.23-0.540.37
Conservative Hybrid category median · 20 funds 3.647.336.92 7.17

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 Conservative Hybrid — 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
Nippon India Conservative Hybrid Fund (Existing number of Segregated Portfolios - 1) Regular 6.75 -0.83 -0.93 -27.89

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
6.8%6.0%-0.83-0.93

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
-27.9%-8.5%
0%-10%-20%-30%2008201020122014201620182020202220242026
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
19.0%0.3%-22.6%47%
Worst-22.6%Median0.3%Best19.0%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

8.8%2021-0.1%20220.9%20230.6%20241.5%20251.1%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 ₹614,298 today, an XIRR of 0.93% 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

72.80%Debt
11.33%Equity
9.86%REITs / InvITs
5.72%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 stocks91
Top 5 stocks20.16%
Top 10 stocks35.42%
Top 20 stocks61.08%
Largest single holding5.17%
Largest sectorCRISIL AA · 18.15%
Number of sectors45
Effective stocks43.8
Cash & equivalents5.72%

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 AA — 18.2%SOVEREIGN — 9.3%CRISIL A+ — 6.6%Cash & Equivalents — 5.7%Realty — 5.4%CARE AAA — 5.1%FITCH AA- — 4.1%ICRA AA — 3.8%Banks — 3.7%Other — 38.3%CRISIL AA18.2%SOVEREIGN9.3%CRISIL A+6.6%Cash & Equivalents5.7%Realty5.4%CARE AAA5.1%FITCH AA-4.1%ICRA AA3.8%Banks3.7%Other38.3%
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 37.0% of the fund. A high number means a concentrated portfolio — fewer names doing more of the work, for better and for worse.

7.03% State Government Securities 5.17%
Triparty Repo 4.21%
10.5% Triumph Composites Limited 4.11%
9.75% Delhi International Airport Limited 3.80%
8.55% Aditya Birla Real Estate Limited 3.62%
5% GMR Airports Limited 3.46%
10.96% Gaursons India Private Limited 3.37%
Auxilo Finserve Private Limited 3.09%
10.4% Muthoot Fincorp Ltd 3.08%
10.2% Navi Finserv Limited 3.08%
JSW Kalinga Steel Limited 2.64%
9.25% Truhome Finance Limited 2.60%

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 Conservative Hybrid Regular Plan QUARTERLY IDCW Option scheme against another of exactly the same kind.

What a Conservative Hybrid scheme is

75–90% debt, 10–25% equity.

Mostly debt with a slice of equity for growth. Steadier than an equity fund and more rewarding than a pure debt fund over long periods, with real but limited downside.

Who it suits. Retirees and anybody who needs the money to be mostly safe but not idle.

How long money should stay. 3 years or more.

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Questions people ask

What is the NAV of Nippon India Conservative Hybrid Fund (Existing number of Segregated Portfolios - 1) — Regular Plan — QUARTERLY IDCW Option?

₹12.3824 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 Nippon India Conservative Hybrid Fund (Existing number of Segregated Portfolios - 1)?

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 QUARTERLY 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?

75–90% debt, 10–25% equity. Mostly debt with a slice of equity for growth. Steadier than an equity fund and more rewarding than a pure debt fund over long periods, with real but limited downside.

How long should money stay in it?

Typically 3 years or more. Retirees and anybody who needs the money to be mostly safe but not idle.