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Nippon India CRISIL-IBX Financial Services 3-6 Months Debt Index Fund

Regular Plan Growth Option Index Funds Nippon India Mutual Fund Code 154274 ISIN INF204KC1GU9

Fund basics

Launched13 Mar 2026 0.5 years of history
CategoryIndex FundsSEBI classification
Plan & optionRegular · Growth Option code 154274
BenchmarkNifty 100 used for alpha & beta below
NAV as on25 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.

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) 10.3471
Direct 10.3558

The two NAVs are 0.1% 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 110 published NAVs between 13 Mar 2026 and 25 Aug 2026 — 0.5 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 CRISIL-IBX Financial Services 3-6 Months Debt Index Fund Regular 0.652.06
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 25 Aug 2026.

Risk measures

Fund name Volatility Sharpe Sortino Beta Alpha Max fall
Nippon India CRISIL-IBX Financial Services 3-6 Months Debt Index Fund Regular 0.48 -0.05
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.

Risk

VolatilityDownside volatility
0.5%0.1%

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
0.0%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.

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

96.15%Debt
3.85%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

Large
Mid
Small
Unclassified 96.2%96.2%Unclassified 96.2%
Against AMFI's half-yearly ranking — companies 1–100 by market value are Large, 101–250 Mid, 251 and below Small. The rest is unclassified — debt, cash, foreign holdings, gold or fund units, which AMFI does not rank. This is what tells you whether a fund is living up to its category label or quietly drifting.

Concentration

Number of stocks21
Top 5 stocks46.70%
Top 10 stocks76.84%
Top 20 stocks96.02%
Largest single holding12.57%
Largest sectorCRISIL A1+ · 48.84%
Number of sectors5
Effective stocks14.3
Cash & equivalents3.85%

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+ — 48.8%CRISIL AAA — 28.2%ICRA AAA — 6.6%FITCH A1+ — 6.3%CARE A1+ — 6.2%Cash & Equivalents — 3.9%CRISIL A1+48.8%CRISIL AAA28.2%ICRA AAA6.6%FITCH A1+6.3%CARE A1+6.2%Cash & Equivalents3.9%
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 76.8% of the fund. A high number means a concentrated portfolio — fewer names doing more of the work, for better and for worse.

HDFC Bank Limited 12.57%
Axis Bank Limited 12.51%
Punjab National Bank 8.75%
7.91% Sundaram Home Finance Limited 6.44%
7.52% REC Limited 6.43%
6.4% LIC Housing Finance Limited 6.40%
Bank of Baroda 6.26%
Small Industries Dev Bank of India 6.24%
Kotak Mahindra Bank Limited 6.24%
Canara Bank 5.00%
8.09% Kotak Mahindra Prime Limited 2.58%
7.84% Tata Capital Housing Finance Limited 2.58%

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 Regular Plan Growth Option scheme against another of exactly the same kind.

Return window
Scheme Return Alpha Beta Volatility Sharpe Max fall
Nippon India CRISIL-IBX Financial Services 3-6 Months Debt Index Fund Nippon India Mutual Fund · this scheme 0.5% 0.0%
Axis BSE India Sector Leaders Index Fund Axis Mutual Fund 15.7% -13.1%
Axis BSE Sensex Index Fund Axis Mutual Fund -2.8% 0.92 13.4% -0.26 -16.1%
Axis CRISIL IBX 50:50 Gilt Plus SDL June 2028 Index Fund Axis Mutual Fund 7.4% 0.5% 0.05 1.2% 0.74 -0.8%
Axis CRISIL IBX SDL May 2027 Index Fund Axis Mutual Fund 7.4% -0.4% 0.05 1.5% 0.60 -3.6%
Axis CRISIL-IBX AAA Bond Financial Services - Sep 2027 Index Fund Axis Mutual Fund 0.9% 0.04 0.8% 0.94 -0.4%
Axis CRISIL-IBX AAA Bond NBFC - Jun 2027 Index Fund Axis Mutual Fund 1.0% 0.02 0.8% 1.12 -0.3%
Axis Crisil IBX 50:50 Gilt Plus SDL September 2027 Index Fund Axis Mutual Fund 7.3% 0.5% 0.03 0.9% 0.89 -0.4%
Axis Nifty 100 Index Fund Axis Mutual Fund 9.9% -0.8% 1.00 17.1% 0.20 -37.2%

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 Nippon India CRISIL-IBX Financial Services 3-6 Months Debt Index Fund — Regular Plan — Growth Option?

₹10.3471 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 CRISIL-IBX Financial Services 3-6 Months Debt Index 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?

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.