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Nippon India ELSS Tax Saver Fund

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Fund basics

Launched11 Feb 2015 11.7 years of history
CategoryELSS (Tax Saving)SEBI classification
Plan & optionRegular · ANNUAL IDCW Option code 133866
BenchmarkNifty 500 used for alpha & beta below
NAV as on27 Oct 2026source AMFI

Computed from 2,845 published NAVs between 11 Feb 2015 and 28 Aug 2026 — 11.5 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 ELSS Tax Saver Fund Regular -0.441.560.77 -3.165.057.50 12.007.066.26
Nifty 500 benchmark 0.874.312.15 5.2012.4911.41 ——15.49
ELSS (Tax Saving) category median · 68 funds ——— -6.1210.378.73 —11.55—

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 ELSS (Tax Saving) — 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 Oct 2026.

Risk measures

Fund name Volatility Sharpe Sortino Beta Alpha Max fall
Nippon India ELSS Tax Saver Fund Regular 15.17 -0.10 -0.13 0.90 -6.91 -56.26
Nifty 500 benchmark 15.22 0.39 0.58 —— -37.31

Risk-free rate 6.5%. Beta and alpha need an index, so the benchmark's own row leaves them blank.

Risk

VolatilityDownside volatilitySharpeSortino
15.2%10.9%-0.10-0.13

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

The worst it has been

Deepest fallTime to recoverToday, from its peak
-56.3%18 months-17.2%
0%-21%-42%-62%201620182020202220242026
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
88.1%4.0%-43.5%40%
Worst-43.5%Median4.0%Best88.1%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

37.6%20216.9%202228.6%20239.4%2024-1.8%2025-6.7%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 ₹677,670 today, an XIRR of 4.82% 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

99.14%Equity
0.77%Cash & Equivalents
0.09%Debt

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 stocks62
Top 5 stocks25.71%
Top 10 stocks39.68%
Top 20 stocks59.80%
Largest single holding7.89%
Largest sectorBanks · 24.38%
Number of sectors28
Effective stocks36.4
Cash & equivalents0.77%

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

Banks — 24.4%Finance — 7.9%Beverages — 6.7%Power — 6.5%Pharmaceuticals & Biotechnology — 6.1%Retailing — 5.7%Auto Components — 4.3%Telecom - Services — 3.9%Insurance — 3.6%Other — 31.0%Banks24.4%Finance7.9%Beverages6.7%Power6.5%Pharmaceuticals & Biotech…6.1%Retailing5.7%Auto Components4.3%Telecom - Services3.9%Insurance3.6%Other31.0%
Where the equity money sits, by industry.

Largest holdings

Top 10 are 39.7% 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 7.89%
ICICI Bank Limited 7.03%
Axis Bank Limited 4.09%
Samvardhana Motherson International Limited 3.36%
State Bank of India 3.34%
NTPC Limited 3.21%
Bharti Airtel Limited 2.85%
Reliance Industries Limited 2.78%
Radico Khaitan Limited 2.63%
Eternal Limited 2.50%
Divi's Laboratories Limited 2.44%
Infosys Limited 2.29%

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₹196 cr shares added, valued at this filing
Sold₹320 cr shares reduced or exited
New positions1 stocks not held a month ago
Sold out of1 stocks fully exited
Price move of what it held +1.32% 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 1
Trent Limited 260,000 entered — 78.2 78.2
Added tobought more shares than last month 6
Mahindra & Mahindra Limited 250,000 +45.5% +10.7% 85.0 272
Varun Beverages Limited 1,100,000 +24.4% -12.9% 48.7 248
Indus Towers Limited 962,000 +33.9% -0.2% 37.6 149
GE Vernova T&D India Limited 47,000 +10.9% -12.6% 20.3 206
NTPC Green Energy Limited 502,908 +10.9% -5.7% 4.5 45.9
Cyient Limited 4,296 +0.3% -2.8% 0.4 125
Trimmedcut the share count, without selling out 6
Larsen & Toubro Limited 450,000 -90.0% -4.9% 177 19.7
InterGlobe Aviation Limited 100,000 -50.0% -3.7% 51.7 51.7
Havells India Limited 360,000 -37.5% +8.8% 45.4 75.6
Radico Khaitan Limited 50,298 -5.6% +10.0% 21.8 369
Eternal Limited 500,000 -4.0% +14.3% 15.1 363
Wheels India Limited 58,883 -10.9% -21.1% 8.3 67.7
Sold out ofheld last month, gone this month 1
Sai Life Sciences Limited 153,973 exited — 19.0 —

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 ELSS (Tax Saving) Regular 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
Nippon India ELSS Tax Saver Fund Nippon India Mutual Fund · this scheme 5.1% -6.9% 0.90 15.2% -0.10 -56.3%
SBI Long Term Advantage Fund - Series V SBI Mutual Fund 21.6% 9.5% 0.98 16.1% 0.94 -35.8%
Motilal Oswal ELSS Tax Saver Fund Motilal Oswal Mutual Fund 22.3% 8.6% 1.16 21.6% 0.73 -37.8%
HSBC ELSS Tax saver Fund HSBC Mutual Fund 17.2% 4.3% 1.02 16.4% 0.66 -19.3%
WhiteOak Capital ELSS Tax Saver Fund WhiteOak Capital Mutual Fund 16.6% 4.1% 0.94 14.9% 0.68 -16.7%
JM ELSS - Tax Saver Fund JM Financial Mutual Fund 16.5% 3.5% 1.05 16.9% 0.60 -69.0%
BANK OF INDIA MID CAP TAX FUND SERIES 1 Bank of India Mutual Fund 16.6% 3.0% 1.16 19.2% 0.53 -36.9%
Baroda BNP Paribas ELSS Tax Saver Fund Baroda BNP Paribas Mutual Fund 16.0% 3.6% 0.96 15.2% 0.62 -17.8%
Quant ELSS Tax Saver Fund quant Mutual Fund 16.1% 2.6% 1.11 18.2% 0.53 -67.9%

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 ELSS (Tax Saving) scheme is

At least 80% in equity, with every investment locked for three years.

The only mutual fund that cuts your tax bill — up to ₹1.5 lakh a year under Section 80C of the old regime. The three-year lock is per instalment, so a SIP started today frees up one instalment at a time.

Who it suits. Anybody using the old tax regime who would be investing in equity anyway.

How long money should stay. The 3-year lock is a floor, not a plan — treat it as 7 years.

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Questions people ask

What is the NAV of Nippon India ELSS Tax Saver Fund — Regular Plan — ANNUAL IDCW Option?

₹19.3821 as on 27 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 Nippon India ELSS Tax Saver 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 ANNUAL 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 80% in equity, with every investment locked for three years. The only mutual fund that cuts your tax bill — up to ₹1.5 lakh a year under Section 80C of the old regime. The three-year lock is per instalment, so a SIP started today frees up one instalment at a time.

How long should money stay in it?

Typically The 3-year lock is a floor, not a plan — treat it as 7 years. Anybody using the old tax regime who would be investing in equity anyway.