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UTI Medium to Long Term Fund

Regular Plan Quarterly IDCW Long Duration UTI Mutual Fund Code 100742 ISIN INF789F01380

Fund basics

Launched3 Apr 2006 20.4 years of history
CategoryLong DurationSEBI classification
Plan & optionRegular · Quarterly IDCW code 100742
Benchmark no equity benchmark for this category
NAV as on25 Aug 2026source AMFI

Returns

No CAGR is shown for an Quarterly IDCW 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) 19.5997
Direct 26.3521

The two NAVs are 25.6% 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 4,933 published NAVs between 3 Apr 2006 and 27 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
UTI Medium to Long Term Fund Regular 0.102.352.22 4.686.127.69 4.983.452.97
Long Duration category median · 23 funds 4.066.405.45 6.25

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 Long Duration — 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
UTI Medium to Long Term Fund Regular 4.79 -0.08 -0.11 -15.09

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
4.8%3.6%-0.08-0.11

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
-15.1%25 monthsAt a high
0%-5%-10%-15%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
15.8%3.0%-12.0%23%
Worst-12.0%Median3.0%Best15.8%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

6.1%20218.2%20226.4%20238.5%20245.6%20252.6%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 ₹701,884 today, an XIRR of 6.22% 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 Long Duration Regular Plan Quarterly IDCW scheme against another of exactly the same kind.

Return window
Scheme Return Alpha Beta Volatility Sharpe Max fall
UTI Medium to Long Term Fund UTI Mutual Fund · this scheme 6.1% 4.8% -0.08 -15.1%
Aditya Birla Sun Life Income Fund Aditya Birla Sun Life Mutual Fund -0.4% 5.1% -1.35 -14.0%
BANK OF INDIA CONSERVATIVE HYBRID FUND Bank of India Mutual Fund 6.4% 6.0% -0.01 -19.1%
Bandhan Medium to Long Term Fund Bandhan Mutual Fund 0.7% 5.9% -0.98 -16.2%
HSBC Medium to Long Term Fund HSBC Mutual Fund 0.0% 4.5% -1.44 -15.1%
LIC MF Medium to Long Term Fund LIC Mutual Fund 6.0% 2.0% -0.23 -1.6%

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 Long Duration scheme is

Portfolio duration above 7 years.

The most rate-sensitive debt category there is. A one-point fall in yields can add several points of return; a rise does the same in reverse. This is a view on interest rates, not a parking place.

Who it suits. Investors who deliberately want duration when rates look set to fall.

How long money should stay. 7 years or more.

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Questions people ask

What is the NAV of UTI Medium to Long Term Fund — Regular Plan — Quarterly IDCW?

₹19.5997 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 UTI Medium to Long Term 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 Quarterly IDCW 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?

Portfolio duration above 7 years. The most rate-sensitive debt category there is. A one-point fall in yields can add several points of return; a rise does the same in reverse. This is a view on interest rates, not a parking place.

How long should money stay in it?

Typically 7 years or more. Investors who deliberately want duration when rates look set to fall.