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This scheme has not published a NAV since 21 Mar 2025 — 1.4 years ago. It has most likely matured, merged or been wound up, so every figure below is a record of what it did up to that date, not a current price. Do not read it as a fund you can buy today.

Nippon India Equity Savings Fund (Existing number of Segregated Portfolios - 2)

Direct Plan IDCW Option Equity Savings Nippon India Mutual Fund Code 147692 ISIN INF204KB14E1

Fund basics

Launched25 Sep 2019 6.9 years of history
CategoryEquity SavingsSEBI classification
Plan & optionDirect · IDCW Option code 147692
BenchmarkNifty 100 used for alpha & beta below
NAV as on21 Mar 2025source AMFI

Returns

No CAGR is shown for an 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.

Direct vs Regular — 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
Direct (this page) 0.5886
Regular 14.0958

The two NAVs are 95.8% 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 1,354 published NAVs between 25 Sep 2019 and 21 Mar 2025 — 5.5 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 Equity Savings Fund (Existing number of Segregated Portfolios - 2) Direct 126.04126.04126.04 126.0431.2317.71 16.03
Nifty 100 benchmark 1.051.76-2.99 0.6610.509.33 12.76
Equity Savings category median · 24 funds 5.699.888.69 8.95

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 Equity Savings — the middle fund, not a ranking, and a median rather than an average so that one mis-stated scheme cannot move it. As on 21 Mar 2025.

Risk measures

Fund name Volatility Sharpe Sortino Beta Alpha Max fall
Nippon India Equity Savings Fund (Existing number of Segregated Portfolios - 2) Direct 53.81 0.46 0.41 15.37 0.00
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 volatilitySharpe
53.8%0.46

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 fallToday, from its peak
0.0%At 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
0.0%0.0%0.0%0%

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

0.0%20200.0%20210.0%20220.0%20230.0%2024126.0%2025
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 ₹1,356,221 today, an XIRR of 33.38% 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.

How it compares with its closest peers

The same category, the same plan, the same option — the only comparison that means anything. A Equity Savings Direct Plan IDCW Option scheme against another of exactly the same kind.

Return window
Scheme Return Alpha Beta Volatility Sharpe Max fall
Nippon India Equity Savings Fund (Existing number of Segregated Portfolios - 2) Nippon India Mutual Fund · this scheme 31.2% 15.4% 0.41 53.8% 0.46 0.0%
Baroda BNP Paribas Equity Savings Fund Baroda BNP Paribas Mutual Fund 4.6% -3.8% 0.30 7.7% -0.25 -13.0%
HDFC Equity Savings Fund HDFC Mutual Fund 2.9% -5.3% 0.40 7.9% -0.46 -23.6%
Nippon India Equity Savings Fund (Existing number of Segregated Portfolios - 2) Nippon India Mutual Fund 7.4% -3.5% 0.45 7.4% 0.12 -40.3%
Union Equity Savings Fund Union Mutual Fund 5.1% -2.3% 0.35 6.2% -0.23 -14.4%
quant Equity Savings Fund quant Mutual Fund 3.6% 0.43 5.7% 0.23 -5.0%

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 Equity Savings scheme is

Equity, arbitrage and debt together.

Taxed as an equity fund while behaving much more like a debt one, because a large part of the equity is hedged. The tax treatment is the point.

Who it suits. Money with a two- to three-year horizon that would otherwise sit in a debt fund.

How long money should stay. 2 to 3 years.

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Questions people ask

What is the NAV of Nippon India Equity Savings Fund (Existing number of Segregated Portfolios - 2) — Direct Plan — IDCW Option?

₹0.5886 as on 21 Mar 2025, 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 Equity Savings Fund (Existing number of Segregated Portfolios - 2)?

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 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?

Equity, arbitrage and debt together. Taxed as an equity fund while behaving much more like a debt one, because a large part of the equity is hedged. The tax treatment is the point.

How long should money stay in it?

Typically 2 to 3 years. Money with a two- to three-year horizon that would otherwise sit in a debt fund.