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Kotak Credit Risk Fund

Q: What is the NAV of Kotak Credit Risk Fund?

As of 01 Oct 2026, the NAV of Kotak Credit Risk Fund is ₹13.86 per unit. NAV (net asset value) is the fund's per-unit price, published once each business day.

Q: What returns has Kotak Credit Risk Fund delivered?

Kotak Credit Risk Fund has returned +5.62% over 1 year, +7.50% per year over 3 years, +5.66% per year over 5 years and +2.04% 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 Kotak Credit Risk Fund?

Kotak Credit Risk Fund charges an expense ratio of 1.73% 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 Kotak Credit Risk Fund?

Kotak Credit Risk Fund's largest holdings are JUBILANT BEVCO LIMITED ( Axis Trustee Services Limited step up or down 25 bps for every rating chang) (^) (7.2%), VEDANTA LTD. (6.5%), BAMBOO HOTEL AND GLOBAL CENTRE (DELHI) PRIVATE LTD (6.5%), TATA PROJECTS LTD. (6.5%) and MUTHOOT FINANCE LTD.(^) (6.4%). Holdings are disclosed monthly and change over time.

Q: How risky is Kotak Credit Risk Fund?

Kotak Credit Risk Fund is rated moderate on SEBI's risk-o-meter, its trailing-3Y volatility (annualised) is 1.6% and its worst peak-to-trough fall in our sample was -12.5%. 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 0.64 mean?

The Sharpe ratio is return earned per unit of total risk, above a 6.5% risk-free rate. Kotak Credit Risk Fund's 0.64 means it has rewarded its volatility with excess return. Higher is better.

Q: What is the benchmark of Kotak Credit Risk Fund?

Kotak Credit Risk Fund is benchmarked against the CRISIL Credit Risk Debt B-II Index. Its alpha and beta on this page are measured against that index.

Q: Who manages Kotak Credit Risk Fund?

Kotak Credit Risk Fund is managed by Deepak Agrawal and Vihag Mishra at Kotak Mahindra.

Q: How is Kotak Credit Risk Fund taxed?

Kotak Credit Risk 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

₹13.86

-0.14% 1D

as of 01 Oct 2026

This is the Regular plan of Kotak Credit Risk 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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NAV history

+5.81%CAGR

52-week rangePrev NAV ₹13.88

Latest ₹13.86

Low ₹13.1293rd percentile of its 52-week rangeHigh ₹13.92

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 Credit Risk Fund peers to rank yet

Risk—

Volatility 1.6% (no category average yet)

Cost—

1.7% expense (no category average yet)

ConsistencyLow

52% 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 52% of rolling 3-year windows

Key Metrics

Annual fee charged by the fund, already deducted from NAV

1.73%

Category —

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

—

Category —

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

0.64

Category —

Scheme Info

Definitions

Plan

Regular · IDCW

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

None

For redemption / switch out of upto 6% of the initial investment amount (limit) purchased or switched in within 1 year from the date of allotment: Nil. If units redeemed or switched out are in excess of the limit within 1year from the date of allotment: 1% If units are redeemed or switched out on or after 1 year from the date of allotment: NIL

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

CRISIL Credit Risk Debt B-II 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.

09 Jul 2012

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

Definitions

Absolute return over the last 1 month (not annualized)

-0.04%

Absolute return over the last 3 months (not annualized)

+0.93%

Absolute return over the last 6 months (not annualized)

+3.49%

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

+4.17%

Annualized returns (≥1Y — CAGR)

Definitions

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

+5.62%

3-year annualized return (CAGR)

+7.50%

5-year annualized return (CAGR)

+5.66%

10-year annualized return (CAGR)

+2.44%

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.

+2.04%

Advanced metrics — risk

Risk (trailing 3Y)

Definitions

Annualized standard deviation of daily returns

1.56%

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

0.64

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

0.83

Largest peak-to-trough decline over full history

-12.48%

Benchmark ratios

Not shown for Credit Risk 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 (Credit Risk Fund)

Period	Fund	Category avg.	Diff
1M abs	-0.04%	—	—
3M abs	+0.93%	—	—
6M abs	+3.49%	—	—
1Y CAGR	+5.62%	—	—
3Y CAGR	+7.50%	—	—
5Y CAGR	+5.66%	—	—

Category average across peers in Credit Risk 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

₹7.08L

Absolute

+18.01%

XIRR

+6.77%

Value vs. invested

ValueInvested

60 monthly installments of ₹10,000 into Kotak Credit Risk 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	+4.17%
2025	+9.11%
2024	+7.12%
2023	+6.43%
2022	+0.90%
2021	-1.04%
2020	-2.82%
2019	+2.67%
2018	+0.01%
2017	-3.18%

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

3,436

Expense ratio

1.73%

AUM

₹1.71Cr

YTM

8.43%

Macaulay duration

1.59 years

Average maturity

2.33 years

Exit load

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 · Credit Risk Fund

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Kotak Credit Risk FundThis fund Kotak Mahindra · Regular · Standard · IDCW	—	+5.62%	+7.50%	+5.66%	—	—	—
Invesco India Credit Risk Fund Invesco · Regular · Discretionary IDCW	—	+6.31%	+8.19%	+7.10%	—	—	₹7.72L
SBI Credit Risk Fund SBI · Regular · IDCW	—	+7.08%	+7.75%	+6.99%	—	1.54%	₹2,138Cr
SBI Credit Risk Fund SBI · Regular · IDCW	—	+7.08%	+7.75%	+6.99%	—	1.54%	₹2,138Cr
HDFC Credit Risk Fund HDFC · Regular · IDCW	—	+6.32%	+7.50%	+6.43%	—	1.51%	—
UTI - Credit Risk Fund. UTI · Regular · Discontinued · Quarterly IDCW	—	+5.58%	+6.95%	+6.30%	—	1.43%	₹252.19Cr

Asset allocation

As on 31 Aug 2026 · AMC disclosure

Debt79.98%
Cash & Equivalents10.05%
Real Estate / REITs5.13%
Equity4.84%

which companies this fund invests in

As on 31 Aug 2026 · AMC disclosure

JUBILANT BEVCO LIMITED ( Axis Trustee Services Limited step up or down 25 bps for every rating chang) (^)

7.23%

VEDANTA LTD.

6.52%

BAMBOO HOTEL AND GLOBAL CENTRE (DELHI) PRIVATE LTD

6.49%

TATA PROJECTS LTD.

6.47%

MUTHOOT FINANCE LTD.(^)

6.43%

ADITYA BIRLA REAL ESTATE LTD

5.82%

ADITYA BIRLA RENEWABLES LIMITED

5.18%

INDUS INFRA TRUST

4.70%

AU SMALL FINANCE BANK LTD.

3.89%

360 ONE PRIME LTD.(^)

3.23%

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.

-12.5%04 Mar 2020 → 29 Apr 2020
Fell over 2 months, back to the old high on 09 Nov 2023 — 3.5 years under water after the low.
-9.6%20 Mar 2015 → 23 Mar 2015
Fell over 3 days, back to the old high on 17 Feb 2020 — 4.9 years under water after the low.
-9.2%20 Mar 2013 → 19 Aug 2013
Fell over 5 months, back to the old high on 15 Jan 2015 — 17 months 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

Kotak Mahindra Mutual Fund is run by Kotak Mahindra Asset Management, part of the Kotak Mahindra Bank group, and has been in the business since 1998. It was the first Indian fund house to launch a dedicated gilt scheme, and today runs one of the country's larger equity and debt line-ups.

Launched

04 Aug 1994

Total AUM

₹5,90,460Cr+1.6% QoQ

Avg AUM · April - June 2026

Website

kotakmf.com

Fund Managers

DADeepak AgrawalStart date not disclosed

Role

CIO - Debt & Head Products

Education

Post Graduate in Commerce, Chartered Accountant, Company Secretary

Experience

Mr. Deepak Agrawal’s career has started from Kotak AMC when he joined the organization in December 2002 where he was initially in Research, Dealing and then moved into Fund Management from November 2006

Funds managed (36)

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VMVihag MishraStart date not disclosed

Role

Debt - Fund Manager

Education

Rank Holder MBA in Finance from XLRI

Experience

Mr. Vihag Mishra has total work experience of 14 years in credit research and data analytics. He has been associated with Kotak Mahindra Asset Management Company Limited for the last 8 years where he is responsible for managing credit investment portfolio across funds. Prior to joining Kotak AMC, he was working as a senior credit analyst at French Bank, BNP Paribas where he structured credit deals for key clients of the bank.

Funds managed (3)

All schemes Vihag Mishra runs →

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

Deepak Agrawal Vihag Mishra

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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 Credit Risk funds

Credit risk funds must keep at least 65% in corporate bonds rated AA and below. The lower rating is what pays the extra yield, and it is also the risk — a downgrade or default hits the NAV directly, which is not a thing that happens in a gilt fund.

Frequently asked questions

What is the NAV of Kotak Credit Risk Fund?

As of 01 Oct 2026, the NAV of Kotak Credit Risk Fund is ₹13.86 per unit. NAV (net asset value) is the fund's per-unit price, published once each business day.

What returns has Kotak Credit Risk Fund delivered?

Kotak Credit Risk Fund has returned +5.62% over 1 year, +7.50% per year over 3 years, +5.66% per year over 5 years and +2.04% 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 Kotak Credit Risk Fund?

Kotak Credit Risk Fund charges an expense ratio of 1.73% 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 Kotak Credit Risk Fund?

Kotak Credit Risk Fund's largest holdings are JUBILANT BEVCO LIMITED ( Axis Trustee Services Limited step up or down 25 bps for every rating chang) (^) (7.2%), VEDANTA LTD. (6.5%), BAMBOO HOTEL AND GLOBAL CENTRE (DELHI) PRIVATE LTD (6.5%), TATA PROJECTS LTD. (6.5%) and MUTHOOT FINANCE LTD.(^) (6.4%). Holdings are disclosed monthly and change over time.

How risky is Kotak Credit Risk Fund?

Kotak Credit Risk Fund is rated moderate on SEBI's risk-o-meter, its trailing-3Y volatility (annualised) is 1.6% and its worst peak-to-trough fall in our sample was -12.5%. 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 0.64 mean?

The Sharpe ratio is return earned per unit of total risk, above a 6.5% risk-free rate. Kotak Credit Risk Fund's 0.64 means it has rewarded its volatility with excess return. Higher is better.

What is the benchmark of Kotak Credit Risk Fund?

Kotak Credit Risk Fund is benchmarked against the CRISIL Credit Risk Debt B-II Index. Its alpha and beta on this page are measured against that index.

Who manages Kotak Credit Risk Fund?

Kotak Credit Risk Fund is managed by Deepak Agrawal and Vihag Mishra at Kotak Mahindra.

How is Kotak Credit Risk Fund taxed?

Kotak Credit Risk 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.