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Nippon India Credit Risk Fund (Existing Number of Segregated Portfolios - 1)

Regular Plan QUARTERLY IDCW Option Credit Risk Nippon India Mutual Fund Code 148095 ISIN INF204KB19L5

Fund basics

Launched17 Feb 2020 6.5 years of history
CategoryCredit RiskSEBI classification
Plan & optionRegular · QUARTERLY IDCW Option code 148095
Benchmark no equity benchmark for this category
NAV as on27 Jan 2022source 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) 0.2405
Direct 13.7905

The two NAVs are 98.3% 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 471 published NAVs between 17 Feb 2020 and 27 Jan 2022 — 1.9 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
Nippon India Credit Risk Fund (Existing Number of Segregated Portfolios - 1) Regular 298.18304.88316.09 339.67 89.25
Credit Risk category median · 17 funds 7.458.106.93 7.16

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 Credit Risk — 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 Jan 2022.

Risk measures

Fund name Volatility Sharpe Sortino Beta Alpha Max fall
Nippon India Credit Risk Fund (Existing Number of Segregated Portfolios - 1) Regular 212.29 0.39 4.63 -25.48

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
212.3%17.9%0.394.63

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
-25.5%12 monthsAt a high
0%-10%-19%-29%2022
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
339.7%-20.3%-21.1%98%
Worst-21.1%Median-20.3%Best339.7%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

-16.1%2021297.5%2022
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.

How it compares with its closest peers

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

Return window
Scheme Return Alpha Beta Volatility Sharpe Max fall
Nippon India Credit Risk Fund (Existing Number of Segregated Portfolios - 1) Nippon India Mutual Fund · this scheme 212.3% 0.39 -25.5%
Nippon India Credit Risk Fund (Existing Number of Segregated Portfolios - 1) Nippon India Mutual Fund 0.7% 4.9% -1.18 -20.5%

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 Credit Risk scheme is

At least 65% in debt rated AA and below.

Paid to take credit risk, and that risk is real: a single default can mark the whole portfolio down and freeze redemptions. Read what it holds before the return.

Who it suits. Investors who understand corporate credit and are sizing this small.

How long money should stay. 3 years or more.

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Questions people ask

What is the NAV of Nippon India Credit Risk Fund (Existing Number of Segregated Portfolios - 1) — Regular Plan — QUARTERLY IDCW Option?

₹0.2405 as on 27 Jan 2022, 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 Credit Risk 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?

At least 65% in debt rated AA and below. Paid to take credit risk, and that risk is real: a single default can mark the whole portfolio down and freeze redemptions. Read what it holds before the return.

How long should money stay in it?

Typically 3 years or more. Investors who understand corporate credit and are sizing this small.