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Nippon India Gold Savings Fund

Q: What is the NAV of Nippon India Gold Savings Fund?

As of 01 Oct 2026, the NAV of Nippon India Gold Savings Fund is ₹55.83 per unit. NAV (net asset value) is the fund's per-unit price, published once each business day.

Q: What returns has Nippon India Gold Savings Fund delivered?

Nippon India Gold Savings Fund has returned +23.94% over 1 year, +34.49% per year over 3 years, +24.29% per year over 5 years and +11.66% 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 Nippon India Gold Savings Fund?

Nippon India Gold Savings Fund charges an expense ratio of 0.25% per year. This annual fee is already deducted from the NAV, so the returns you see are net of it.

Q: How risky is Nippon India Gold Savings Fund?

Nippon India Gold Savings Fund is rated high on SEBI's risk-o-meter, its trailing-3Y volatility (annualised) is 22.2% and its worst peak-to-trough fall in our sample was -27.4%. 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 1.26 mean?

The Sharpe ratio is return earned per unit of total risk, above a 6.5% risk-free rate. Nippon India Gold Savings Fund's 1.26 means it has rewarded its volatility with excess return. Higher is better.

Q: What is the benchmark of Nippon India Gold Savings Fund?

Nippon India Gold Savings Fund is benchmarked against the Domestic Price of Gold. Its alpha and beta on this page are measured against that index.

Q: Who manages Nippon India Gold Savings Fund?

Nippon India Gold Savings Fund is managed by Himanshu Mange at Nippon India.

Q: How is Nippon India Gold Savings Fund taxed?

Nippon India Gold Savings Fund is a non-equity fund (a fund-of-funds, gold, international or balanced-hybrid scheme). Since FY 2025-26 it's no longer taxed like a pure-debt fund: gains on units held more than 2 years are long-term, taxed at 12.5% (no indexation, no ₹1.25 lakh exemption); units held 2 years or less are taxed at your income-tax slab rate.

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NAV

₹55.83

-0.13% 1D

as of 01 Oct 2026

This is the Regular plan of Nippon India Gold Savings 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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Performance

+26.18%CAGR

52-week rangePrev NAV ₹55.90

Latest ₹55.83

Low ₹44.6649th percentile of its 52-week rangeHigh ₹67.46

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 FoF funds (same plan and option) to rank against yet.

Performance—

Not enough FoF Domestic peers to rank yet

Risk—

Volatility 22.2% (no category average yet)

Cost—

0.3% expense (no category average yet)

ConsistencyModerate

80% of rolling 3Y windows were positive

Key Metrics

Annual fee charged by the fund, already deducted from NAV

0.25%

Category —

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

—

Category —

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

1.26

Category —

Scheme Info

Definitions

Plan

Regular · IDCW

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

None

1% - If redeemed or switched out on or before completion of 15 days from the date of allotment of units, Nil - If redeemed or switched out after the completion of 15 days from the date of allotment of units w.e.f October 01, 2012, exit load if charged to the scheme shall be credited to the scheme immediately net of service tax, if any.

Up to 1.00%

tiered — see the full terms

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

Domestic Price of Gold

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.

11 Mar 2011

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

Definitions

Absolute return over the last 1 month (not annualized)

-3.14%

Absolute return over the last 3 months (not annualized)

+5.11%

Absolute return over the last 6 months (not annualized)

+10.99%

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

+10.00%

Annualized returns (≥1Y — CAGR)

Definitions

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

+23.94%

3-year annualized return (CAGR)

+34.49%

5-year annualized return (CAGR)

+24.29%

10-year annualized return (CAGR)

+15.03%

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.

+11.66%

Advanced metrics — risk and benchmark ratios

Risk (trailing 3Y)

Definitions

Annualized standard deviation of daily returns

22.21%

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

1.26

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

1.80

Largest peak-to-trough decline over full history

-27.40%

Benchmark ratios (vs Gold · 36 monthly returns)

Definitions

Jensen's alpha (annualized): return above what CAPM predicts for the fund's beta vs Gold

-2.05%

Sensitivity to Gold moves; 1 = moves with the index

1.07

How much of the fund's movement Gold explains

98.1%

Excess return per unit of beta (market risk)

26.17

Active return over the benchmark per unit of tracking error

-0.15

Annualized std dev of fund-minus-benchmark returns

3.12%

Fund's share of benchmark gains in up months (100 = matches index)

99.3%

Fund's share of benchmark losses in down months (lower is better)

100.7%

Computed vs the Gold over the last 36 complete months — the closest match to this fund's mandate. TRI means dividends reinvested, as they are in the fund's own NAV; ₹ means a US index converted at each day's USD/INR, since the fund is priced in rupees. Needs ~3 years of history; a low R² means the fund tracks the index loosely.

Fund vs category average (FoF Domestic)

Period	Fund	Category avg.	Diff
1M abs	-3.14%	—	—
3M abs	+5.11%	—	—
6M abs	+10.99%	—	—
1Y CAGR	+23.94%	—	—
3Y CAGR	+34.49%	—	—
5Y CAGR	+24.29%	—	—

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

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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

₹11.97L

Absolute

+99.53%

XIRR

+28.91%

Value vs. invested

ValueInvested

60 monthly installments of ₹10,000 into Nippon India Gold Savings 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	Gold	Diff
2026part	+10.00%	+10.42%	-0.42%
2025	+71.17%	+71.81%	-0.64%
2024	+19.01%	+19.44%	-0.43%
2023	+14.30%	+14.68%	-0.38%
2022	+12.34%	+12.80%	-0.46%
2021	-5.54%	-5.19%	-0.35%
2020	+26.64%	+27.00%	-0.36%
2019	+22.47%	+22.95%	-0.48%
2018	+5.97%	+6.67%	-0.70%
2017	+1.74%	+2.43%	-0.69%

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; those years show no benchmark comparison.

History points

3,830

Expense ratio

0.25%

AUM

₹7,262Cr

Portfolio turnover

Exit load

Taxation

Taxed as non-equity

This is a non-equity fund — a fund-of-funds, gold/silver, international or balanced-hybrid scheme. It isn't equity-oriented, but since FY 2025-26 it's no longer taxed like a pure-debt fund either: gains held over 2 years get the 12.5% long-term rate; shorter holdings are taxed at your income-tax slab rate.

Short-term

30%

Held under 2 years

Added to your income at your slab rate

Long-term (LTCG)

12.5%

Held 2 years or more

No indexation, no ₹1.25 L exemption

Your income-tax slab

Sets the short-term (slab-rate) figure above.

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 · FoF Domestic

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Nippon India Silver ETF FOF Nippon India · Regular · IDCW	—	+47.33%	+42.21%	—	—	0.49%	₹4,544Cr
Edelweiss Gold and Silver ETF FOF Edelweiss · Regular · IDCW	—	+31.62%	+36.96%	—	—	0.56%	₹3,034Cr

Asset allocation

As on 31 Aug 2026 · AMC disclosure

Cash & Equivalents100.00%

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.

-27.4%17 Sep 2012 → 31 Dec 2015
Fell over 3.3 years, back to the old high on 06 Aug 2019 — 3.6 years under water after the low.
-25.4%29 Jan 2026 → 01 Apr 2026
Still below that high — 2 months down, and no recovery yet.
-22.5%07 Aug 2020 → 31 Mar 2021
Fell over 8 months, back to the old high on 02 Feb 2023 — 1.8 years under water after the low.

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

Nippon India Mutual Fund is managed by Nippon Life India Asset Management, which took control of the former Reliance Mutual Fund in 2019 when Nippon Life of Japan bought out the Reliance Capital stake. It is among India's largest fund houses by assets and is best known for its small- and mid-cap franchise.

Launched

29 Jun 1995

Total AUM

₹7,87,053Cr+4.7% QoQ

Avg AUM · July - September 2026

Website

mf.nipponindiaim.com

Fund Managers

HMHimanshu MangeStart date not disclosed

Education

Chartered Accountant

Experience

Over 6 years of experience From Dec 23, 2023 onwards Fund Manager & Dealer - ETF, NAM India Feb 02, 2022 - December 22, 2023 Dealer - ETF, NAM India Dec 04, 2019 - Feb 01, 2022 TATA AIA Life Insurance Co. Ltd.: ETF Nifty Midcap 150, Nippon India ETF BSE Sensex Assistant Manager (Investment Operations – Finance & Accounts)

Funds managed (29)

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Fund manager, benchmark and dealing terms from this scheme's SEBI-filed Scheme Information Document on AMFI. 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

Himanshu Mange

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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.

Frequently asked questions

What is the NAV of Nippon India Gold Savings Fund?

As of 01 Oct 2026, the NAV of Nippon India Gold Savings Fund is ₹55.83 per unit. NAV (net asset value) is the fund's per-unit price, published once each business day.

What returns has Nippon India Gold Savings Fund delivered?

Nippon India Gold Savings Fund has returned +23.94% over 1 year, +34.49% per year over 3 years, +24.29% per year over 5 years and +11.66% 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 Nippon India Gold Savings Fund?

Nippon India Gold Savings Fund charges an expense ratio of 0.25% per year. This annual fee is already deducted from the NAV, so the returns you see are net of it.

How risky is Nippon India Gold Savings Fund?

Nippon India Gold Savings Fund is rated high on SEBI's risk-o-meter, its trailing-3Y volatility (annualised) is 22.2% and its worst peak-to-trough fall in our sample was -27.4%. 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 1.26 mean?

The Sharpe ratio is return earned per unit of total risk, above a 6.5% risk-free rate. Nippon India Gold Savings Fund's 1.26 means it has rewarded its volatility with excess return. Higher is better.

What is the benchmark of Nippon India Gold Savings Fund?

Nippon India Gold Savings Fund is benchmarked against the Domestic Price of Gold. Its alpha and beta on this page are measured against that index.

Who manages Nippon India Gold Savings Fund?

Nippon India Gold Savings Fund is managed by Himanshu Mange at Nippon India.

How is Nippon India Gold Savings Fund taxed?

Nippon India Gold Savings Fund is a non-equity fund (a fund-of-funds, gold, international or balanced-hybrid scheme). Since FY 2025-26 it's no longer taxed like a pure-debt fund: gains on units held more than 2 years are long-term, taxed at 12.5% (no indexation, no ₹1.25 lakh exemption); units held 2 years or less are taxed at your income-tax slab rate.