DebtMedium Duration FundRegularIDCWModerate

DSP Medium Term Fund

Q: What is the NAV of DSP Medium Term Fund?

As of 05 Oct 2026, the NAV of DSP Medium Term Fund is ₹11.62 per unit. NAV (net asset value) is the fund's per-unit price, published once each business day.

Q: What returns has DSP Medium Term Fund delivered?

DSP Medium Term Fund has returned -1.37% over 1 year, -0.16% per year over 3 years, +0.16% per year over 5 years and +0.25% per year since inception. Figures beyond one year are annualised (CAGR) and are computed from AMFI NAV history, so they may differ slightly from other portals.

Q: What is the expense ratio of DSP Medium Term Fund?

DSP Medium Term Fund charges an expense ratio of 0.74% per year. This annual fee is already deducted from the NAV, so the returns you see are net of it.

Q: What are the top holdings of DSP Medium Term Fund?

DSP Medium Term Fund's largest holdings are 7.13% Haryana SDL 05012032 (13.9%), 6.36% GOI 16022031 (13.8%), 7.72% Maharashtra SDL 01032031 (10.5%), 7.73% Maharashtra SDL 29032032 (10.4%) and 7.30% Karnataka SDL 09022032 (10.0%). Holdings are disclosed monthly and change over time.

Q: How risky is DSP Medium Term Fund?

DSP Medium Term Fund is rated moderate on SEBI's risk-o-meter, its trailing-3Y volatility (annualised) is 6.5% and its worst peak-to-trough fall in our sample was -13.0%. Higher volatility means the NAV swings more; the drawdown shows how far it has fallen from a peak historically.

Q: What does the Sharpe ratio of -1.02 mean?

The Sharpe ratio is return earned per unit of total risk, above a 6.5% risk-free rate. DSP Medium Term Fund's -1.02 means it has not compensated investors for its volatility over the window. Higher is better.

Q: What is the benchmark of DSP Medium Term Fund?

DSP Medium Term Fund is benchmarked against the CRISIL Medium Duration Debt A-III Index. Its alpha and beta on this page are measured against that index.

Q: Who manages DSP Medium Term Fund?

DSP Medium Term Fund is managed by Vivek Ramakrishnan and Karan Mundhra at DSP.

Q: How is DSP Medium Term Fund taxed?

DSP Medium Term Fund is a debt / non-equity fund. Since April 2023 there is no long-term or indexation benefit — capital gains are added to your income and taxed at your income-tax slab rate regardless of how long you held the units.

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NAV

₹11.62

0.00% 1D

as of 05 Oct 2026

This is the Regular plan of DSP Medium Term Fund — bought through a distributor, whose commission is paid out of its expense ratio. Income is distributed, which is why this NAV sits below the growth plan of the same fund.

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This is the IDCW (dividend) option — it pays its earnings out as dividends rather than reinvesting them, so every payout steps the NAV down and the return figures below leave those payouts out. Your actual return was higher by whatever was distributed. That’s expected for a payout plan, not missing data.

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NAV history

-1.46%absolute

52-week rangePrev NAV ₹11.62

Latest ₹11.62

Low ₹11.3046th percentile of its 52-week rangeHigh ₹11.98

Scorecard

Not rated

How this is computed

Each verdict is computed from this fund's own metrics against its sub-category — the number behind it is shown, not a black-box rating. Not rated — too few comparable Debt funds (same plan and option) to rank against yet.

Performance—

Not enough Medium Duration Fund peers to rank yet

Risk—

Volatility 6.5% (no category average yet)

Cost—

0.7% expense (no category average yet)

ConsistencyLow

66% of rolling 3Y windows were positive

Strengths & concerns

Generated from this fund's own numbers against its sub-category — each point names the figure behind it.

Strengths

No standout strengths identified.

Concerns

Positive in only 66% of rolling 3-year windows

Key Metrics

Annual fee charged by the fund, already deducted from NAV

0.74%

Category —

Portfolio-weighted harmonic mean P/E across the fund's equity holdings

—

Category —

Excess return per unit of total volatility (rf = 6.5%)

-1.02

Category —

Scheme Info

Definitions

Plan

Regular · IDCW

Period before units can be redeemed — 3 years for ELSS, none for most open-ended funds

None

Exit Load

None

Statutory levy on every mutual-fund purchase since 1 Jul 2020 (SEBI / Govt of India) — the same for every scheme

0.005%

SIP Inv.

Allowed

Smallest recurring SIP instalment the scheme accepts

₹100

Smallest one-time (lumpsum) investment the scheme accepts

₹100

CRISIL Medium Duration Debt A-III Index

Start of our NAV history for this plan. Direct plans begin 1 Jan 2013, so this is the plan's inception — not necessarily the scheme's original launch date.

03 Apr 2006

Period returns (<1Y, absolute — not annualized)

Definitions

Absolute return over the last 1 month (not annualized)

-0.64%

Absolute return over the last 3 months (not annualized)

-0.26%

Absolute return over the last 6 months (not annualized)

+2.78%

Absolute return since 1 Jan of this year (not annualized)

-2.30%

Annualized returns (≥1Y — CAGR)

Definitions

1-year point-to-point return, annualized (CAGR)

-1.37%

3-year annualized return (CAGR)

-0.16%

5-year annualized return (CAGR)

+0.16%

10-year annualized return (CAGR)

+0.09%

Annualized return (CAGR) since the first NAV we hold for this plan — the Inception date under Key metrics. AMFI's history starts in April 2006, so an older scheme is measured from there.

+0.25%

Advanced metrics — risk

Risk (trailing 3Y)

Definitions

Annualized standard deviation of daily returns

6.53%

Excess return per unit of total volatility (rf = 6.5%)

-1.02

Excess return per unit of downside deviation — upside swings aren't penalized (rf = 6.5%)

-1.03

Largest peak-to-trough decline over full history

-12.99%

Benchmark ratios

Not shown for Medium Duration Fund — a debt, arbitrage or cash-like fund isn't measured against an equity index, so alpha/beta vs one would be noise rather than signal.

Fund vs category average (Medium Duration Fund)

Period	Fund	Category avg.	Diff
1M abs	-0.64%	—	—
3M abs	-0.26%	—	—
6M abs	+2.78%	—	—
1Y CAGR	-1.37%	—	—
3Y CAGR	-0.16%	—	—
5Y CAGR	+0.16%	—	—

Category average across peers in Medium Duration Fund, same plan and option, excluding this fund. Under-1-year figures are absolute; 1Y and beyond are annualised (CAGR).

Not sure what a figure means? The glossary explains every metric, and the methodology shows the formulas.

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What a SIP or one-time investment would have grown to over this fund’s real NAV history.

Monthly investment (₹)

Period

Invested

₹6.00L

Current value

₹6.02L

Absolute

+0.32%

XIRR

+0.13%

Value vs. invested

ValueInvested

60 monthly installments of ₹10,000 into DSP Medium Term Fund, valued at the latest NAV. XIRR annualizes for each installment’s timing.

Calendar-year returns

What the fund actually returned in each year, not the smoothed average.

Year	Fund
2026part	-2.30%
2025	+0.09%
2024	+0.02%
2023	+3.51%
2022	-1.09%
2021	-2.76%
2020	+9.93%
2019	-0.60%
2018	-2.36%
2017	-4.35%

January–December, from this fund's NAV history. Absolute return, not annualised. “part” marks a year the fund didn't run end to end — its first year, the current year so far, or one it stopped reporting in.

History points

4,962

Expense ratio

0.74%

YTM

7.15%

Modified duration

3.38 years

Macaulay duration

3.51 years

Average maturity

4.14 years

Exit load

Nil

Taxation

Taxed as debt

This is a debt / non-equity fund. Since April 2023 there is no long-term or indexation benefit — every rupee of gain is added to your income and taxed at your income-tax slab rate, whatever the holding period.

Any holding period

30%

Short- and long-term alike

Your income-tax slab — no LTCG or indexation benefit

Your income-tax slab

Pick your slab to see the rate that applies to you.

Applies to capital gains on redemption. Excludes IDCW/dividend tax, STT, surcharge and cess, and pre-2018 equity grandfathering. For research only — consult a tax advisor before filing.

Peer comparison · Medium Duration Fund

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DSP Medium Term FundThis fund DSP · Regular · IDCW	—	-1.37%	-0.16%	+0.16%	—	0.74%	—
Kotak Medium Term Fund Kotak Mahindra · Regular · Standard · IDCW	—	+3.45%	+7.24%	+5.93%	—	—	—
HDFC Medium Term Fund HDFC · Regular · IDCW	—	+5.45%	+7.09%	+3.57%	—	1.30%	—
SBI Medium Term Fund SBI · Regular · IDCW	—	+5.20%	+6.99%	+6.13%	—	1.22%	—
Bandhan Medium Term Fund Bandhan · Regular · Periodic IDCW	—	+4.83%	+6.76%	+5.29%	—	—	—
Invesco India Medium Term Fund Invesco · Regular · Discretionary IDCW	—	+3.40%	+6.22%	+5.07%	—	—	—

Asset allocation

As on 31 Aug 2026 · AMC disclosure

Debt98.51%
Cash & Equivalents1.49%

Worst falls, and the wait to get back

How far this fund has dropped from a high, and how long it took to reclaim it.

-13.0%24 Nov 2016 → 10 Jun 2019
Fell over 2.5 years, back to the old high on 06 Feb 2024 — 4.7 years under water after the low.
-12.5%18 Dec 2008 → 19 Aug 2013
Fell over 4.7 years, back to the old high on 23 Nov 2016 — 3.3 years under water after the low.
-7.4%31 Mar 2025 → 02 Apr 2026
Still below that high — 12 months down, and no recovery yet.

Measured on this fund’s own NAV history, peak to trough to the day it regained the peak. Falls shallower than 5% are left out. A recovery date is when the NAV got back, not when any particular investor did — that depends on when they bought.

AMC Profile

DSP Mutual Fund is run by DSP Asset Managers, part of the DSP Group, a Mumbai financial firm whose broking lineage runs back to 1860. The house operated as a joint venture with BlackRock — and Merrill Lynch before it — until the DSP family bought out the foreign stake in 2018.

Launched

15 Dec 1996

Total AUM

₹2,29,802Cr+2.0% QoQ

Avg AUM · April - June 2026

Website

dspim.com

Fund Managers

VRVivek RamakrishnanManaging since 17 Jul 2021

KMKaran MundhraManaging since 01 May 2021

Education

BCOM. Charted Accountant (CA)

Experience

Over 16 years of experience as under: From April 01, 2023 onwards- Fund manager- DSPAM From May 1, 2021 to March 31, 2023- Fund manager- DSPIM From July 2016 to April 30, 2021- Dealer, Fixed Income – DSPIM. From February 2016 to July 2016 – Manager – Fixed Income - DSPIM From April 2012 to January 2016 – Manager - Fund Accounting – DSPIM

Funds managed (6)

All schemes Karan Mundhra runs →

Fund managers from the AMC's filed Scheme Summary — its most recent filing for this scheme. Each manager's qualifications and role are reconciled across every filing this fund house makes for them, including its Statement of Additional Information. Total AUM via AMFI.

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Fund managers

Karan Mundhra

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Returns and risk are computed from NAV history and may differ slightly from other portals due to methodology (rolling vs point-to-point, dividend treatment). For research only — not investment advice.

About Medium Duration funds

Medium duration funds run a Macaulay duration of 3 to 4 years. They carry real interest-rate sensitivity, so they suit a horizon of at least three years rather than a place to park cash.

Frequently asked questions

What is the NAV of DSP Medium Term Fund?

As of 05 Oct 2026, the NAV of DSP Medium Term Fund is ₹11.62 per unit. NAV (net asset value) is the fund's per-unit price, published once each business day.

What returns has DSP Medium Term Fund delivered?

DSP Medium Term Fund has returned -1.37% over 1 year, -0.16% per year over 3 years, +0.16% per year over 5 years and +0.25% per year since inception. Figures beyond one year are annualised (CAGR) and are computed from AMFI NAV history, so they may differ slightly from other portals.

What is the expense ratio of DSP Medium Term Fund?

DSP Medium Term Fund charges an expense ratio of 0.74% per year. This annual fee is already deducted from the NAV, so the returns you see are net of it.

What are the top holdings of DSP Medium Term Fund?

DSP Medium Term Fund's largest holdings are 7.13% Haryana SDL 05012032 (13.9%), 6.36% GOI 16022031 (13.8%), 7.72% Maharashtra SDL 01032031 (10.5%), 7.73% Maharashtra SDL 29032032 (10.4%) and 7.30% Karnataka SDL 09022032 (10.0%). Holdings are disclosed monthly and change over time.

How risky is DSP Medium Term Fund?

DSP Medium Term Fund is rated moderate on SEBI's risk-o-meter, its trailing-3Y volatility (annualised) is 6.5% and its worst peak-to-trough fall in our sample was -13.0%. Higher volatility means the NAV swings more; the drawdown shows how far it has fallen from a peak historically.

What does the Sharpe ratio of -1.02 mean?

The Sharpe ratio is return earned per unit of total risk, above a 6.5% risk-free rate. DSP Medium Term Fund's -1.02 means it has not compensated investors for its volatility over the window. Higher is better.

What is the benchmark of DSP Medium Term Fund?

DSP Medium Term Fund is benchmarked against the CRISIL Medium Duration Debt A-III Index. Its alpha and beta on this page are measured against that index.

Who manages DSP Medium Term Fund?

DSP Medium Term Fund is managed by Vivek Ramakrishnan and Karan Mundhra at DSP.

How is DSP Medium Term Fund taxed?

DSP Medium Term Fund is a debt / non-equity fund. Since April 2023 there is no long-term or indexation benefit — capital gains are added to your income and taxed at your income-tax slab rate regardless of how long you held the units.