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JM Focused Fund

Q: What is the NAV of JM Focused Fund?

As of 20 Aug 2026, the NAV of JM Focused Fund is ₹24.31 per unit. NAV (net asset value) is the fund's per-unit price, published once each business day.

Q: What returns has JM Focused Fund delivered?

JM Focused Fund has returned +7.68% over 1 year, +15.18% per year over 3 years, +15.47% per year over 5 years and +14.23% 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 JM Focused Fund?

JM Focused Fund charges an expense ratio of 1.32% 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 JM Focused Fund?

Its largest holdings are Ujjivan Small Finance Bank Ltd (5.2%), Larsen & Toubro Ltd (5.0%), Amber Enterprises India Ltd (4.8%), Bajaj Finance Ltd (4.6%) and IDFC First Bank Ltd (4.4%). Holdings are disclosed monthly and change over time.

Q: How risky is JM Focused Fund?

It is rated very high on SEBI's risk-o-meter, its trailing-3Y volatility (annualised) is 16.5% and its worst peak-to-trough fall in our sample was -37.4%. 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 0.53 mean?

The Sharpe ratio is return earned per unit of total risk, above a 6.5% risk-free rate. JM Focused Fund's 0.53 means it has rewarded its volatility with excess return. Higher is better.

Q: What is the benchmark of JM Focused Fund?

JM Focused Fund is benchmarked against the AMFI prescribed benchmark for all schemes except ETFs / Index Funds and FOFs with. Its alpha and beta on this page are measured against that index.

Q: Who manages JM Focused Fund?

JM Focused Fund is managed by Ruchi Fozdar, Deepak Gupta, Satish Ramanathan and Asit Bhandarkar at JM Financial.

Q: How is JM Focused Fund taxed?

JM Focused Fund is an equity-oriented fund, so its capital gains get concessional rates: short-term gains (units held under 1 year) are taxed at 20%, and long-term gains (held 1 year or more) at 12.5% above a ₹1.25 lakh per-year exemption. These rates apply on redemption and don't add to your income-tax slab.

JM Financial Mutual Fund · Best Focused Mutual Funds

This is the Direct plan of JM Focused Fund — bought from the fund house, with no distributor commission in its expense ratio. Income is distributed, which is why this NAV sits below the growth plan of the same fund.

NAV

₹24.31

+1.04% 1D

as of 20 Aug 2026

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Performance

+8.24%CAGR

52-week rangePrev NAV ₹24.06

Latest ₹24.31

Low ₹19.5999th percentile of its 52-week rangeHigh ₹24.33

Scorecard

★★★☆☆3/5 vs 28 Focused Fund peers

Performance 60%
Risk 15%
Cost 10%
Downside 15%

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. The stars weight the same ground 60/15/10/15 (performance/risk/cost/downside) across every fund in the peer group. Ranked within Focused Fund (same plan and option).

PerformanceStrong

3Y CAGR +15.18% · ranks 6 of 28 Focused Funds

RiskModerate

Volatility 16.5% vs 15.4% category avg

CostHigh

1.3% expense vs 1.1% category avg

ConsistencyHigh

96% 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

Ahead of the Focused Fund average on 1M/3M/6M/1Y — 1Y by 6.72pp
3-year return (+15.18%) beats the Focused Fund average (+10.07%)
5-year return (+15.47%) beats the Focused Fund average (+8.76%)
Stronger risk-adjusted returns — Sharpe 0.53 vs 0.27 Focused Fund average
Consistent — positive in 96% of rolling 3-year windows

Concerns

High expense ratio (1.32%) vs the Focused Fund average of 1.14%

Key Metrics

Annual fee charged by the fund, already deducted from NAV

Category 1.14%

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

Category 25.52

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

0.53

Category 0.27▲0.26

Scheme Info

Definitions

Plan

Direct · IDCW

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

Exit Load

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

0.005%

SIP Inv.

Smallest recurring SIP instalment the scheme accepts

Smallest one-time (lumpsum) investment the scheme accepts

Benchmark

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 Jan 2013

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

Definitions

Absolute return over the last 1 month (not annualized)

+4.19%

Absolute return over the last 3 months (not annualized)

+11.05%

Absolute return over the last 6 months (not annualized)

+6.12%

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

+4.74%

Annualized returns (≥1Y — CAGR)

Definitions

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

+7.68%

3-year annualized return (CAGR)

+15.18%

5-year annualized return (CAGR)

+15.47%

10-year annualized return (CAGR)

+13.01%

Annualized return (CAGR) since the fund's inception

+14.23%

Advanced metrics — risk and benchmark ratios

Risk (trailing 3Y)

Definitions

Annualized standard deviation of daily returns

16.51%

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

0.53

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

0.72

Largest peak-to-trough decline over full history

-37.38%

Benchmark ratios (vs Nifty 500 · 36 monthly returns)

Definitions

Jensen's alpha (annualized): return above what CAPM predicts for the fund's beta vs Nifty 500

2.66%

Sensitivity to Nifty 500 moves; 1 = moves with the index

1.04

How much of the fund's movement Nifty 500 explains

88.2%

Excess return per unit of beta (market risk)

7.72

Active return over the benchmark per unit of tracking error

0.51

Annualized std dev of fund-minus-benchmark returns

5.85%

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

112.6%

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

103.6%

Computed vs the Nifty 500 price index — the closest match to this fund's mandate. Needs ~3 years of history; a low R² means the fund tracks the index loosely.

Fund vs category average (Focused Fund)

Period	Fund	Category avg.	Diff
1M abs	+4.19%	+1.26%	+2.93%
3M abs	+11.05%	+5.81%	+5.24%
6M abs	+6.12%	+1.65%	+4.47%
1Y CAGR	+7.68%	+0.96%	+6.72%
3Y CAGR	+15.18%	+10.07%	+5.11%
5Y CAGR	+15.47%	+8.76%	+6.72%

Category average across peers in Focused Fund (up to 28 funds with data), 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.

Category rank

Vs 28 peers in Focused Fund

1Y return

+7.68%

Beats 82.1% · rank #6

3Y return

+15.18%

Beats 81.5% · rank #6

5Y return🏆

+15.47%

Beats 100% · rank #1

Sharpe

0.53

Beats 82.1% · rank #6

Sortino

0.72

Beats 78.6% · rank #7

Rolling returns

Return for every possible 1Y holding period, not just today’s

This fundNifty 500

Average

+17.6%

Median

+13.5%

Best

+79.7%

Worst

-25.2%

Positive periods

79.6%

152 overlapping 1Y windows, sampled monthly across the fund’s history.

Backtest this fund

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

₹8.53L

Absolute

+42.20%

XIRR

+14.50%

Value vs. invested

60 monthly installments of ₹10,000 into JM Focused 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	Nifty 500	Diff
2026part	+5.05%	-1.50%	+6.55%
2025	-0.33%	+6.69%	-7.02%
2024	+26.09%	+15.16%	+10.93%
2023	+34.05%	+25.76%	+8.29%
2022	+7.94%	+3.02%	+4.92%
2021	+17.62%	+30.19%	-12.57%
2020	+7.89%	+16.67%	-8.78%
2019	+12.75%	+7.66%	+5.09%
2018	-4.04%	-3.38%	-0.66%
2017	+44.29%	+35.91%	+8.38%

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

3,354

Expense ratio

AUM

Portfolio turnover

Exit load

P/E ratio

P/B ratio

Avg market cap

Taxation

Taxed as equity

This is an equity-oriented fund (≥65% in Indian equities), so gains get the concessional capital-gains rates below — they do not add to your income-tax slab.

Short-term (STCG)

20%

Held under 1 year

Flat, on the whole gain

Long-term (LTCG)

12.5%

Held 1 year or more

On gains above ₹1.25 L per financial year

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 · Focused Fund

Compare all


JM Focused FundThis fund JM Financial	★★★☆☆	+7.68%	+15.18%	+15.47%	23.48	1.32%	₹278.27Cr
ITI Focused Fund ITI	★★★★☆	+5.07%	+18.27%	—	29.22	0.88%	₹567.11Cr
SBI Focused Fund SBI	★★★★★	+15.52%	+17.45%	+13.98%	24.97	0.80%	₹44,948Cr
Kotak Focused Fund Kotak Mahindra	★★★★★	+10.09%	+17.19%	+14.47%	27.07	0.73%	₹4,062Cr
ICICI Prudential Focused Equity Fund ICICI Prudential	★★★☆☆	+4.40%	+15.97%	+13.33%	—	1.18%	₹16,230Cr
Invesco India Focused Fund Invesco	★★★☆☆	-4.18%	+15.62%	+10.35%	33.89	0.70%	₹5,225Cr

Market-cap allocation · AMFI bands, Jul 2026

Equity holdings by company size — 100% of the equity sleeve priced.

Large cap52.6%
Mid cap28.3%
Small cap19.1%

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.

-37.4%19 Feb 2020 → 23 Mar 2020
Fell over 33 days, back to the old high on 14 Dec 2020 — 9 months under water after the low.
-27.9%15 Jan 2013 → 28 Aug 2013
Fell over 7 months, back to the old high on 07 Mar 2014 — 6 months under water after the low.
-27.1%29 Jan 2015 → 25 Feb 2016
Fell over 13 months, back to the old high on 04 Jul 2016 — 4 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.

Fund size over time

Quarterly average AUM · AMFI

₹278.27Cr

April - June 2026

-1%

since January - March 2026

At or near its largest, ₹282.26Cr in January - March 2026. Size matters most where the mandate is narrow — a large small-cap or a very large flexi-cap book is harder to move without moving the price.

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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 Focused funds

Focused funds hold a concentrated portfolio of at most 30 stocks. Higher conviction can mean higher returns, but a few positions carry more of the outcome — so more concentration risk.

Frequently asked questions

What is the NAV of JM Focused Fund?

As of 20 Aug 2026, the NAV of JM Focused Fund is ₹24.31 per unit. NAV (net asset value) is the fund's per-unit price, published once each business day.

What returns has JM Focused Fund delivered?

JM Focused Fund has returned +7.68% over 1 year, +15.18% per year over 3 years, +15.47% per year over 5 years and +14.23% 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 JM Focused Fund?

JM Focused Fund charges an expense ratio of 1.32% 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 JM Focused Fund?

Its largest holdings are Ujjivan Small Finance Bank Ltd (5.2%), Larsen & Toubro Ltd (5.0%), Amber Enterprises India Ltd (4.8%), Bajaj Finance Ltd (4.6%) and IDFC First Bank Ltd (4.4%). Holdings are disclosed monthly and change over time.

How risky is JM Focused Fund?

It is rated very high on SEBI's risk-o-meter, its trailing-3Y volatility (annualised) is 16.5% and its worst peak-to-trough fall in our sample was -37.4%. 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 0.53 mean?

The Sharpe ratio is return earned per unit of total risk, above a 6.5% risk-free rate. JM Focused Fund's 0.53 means it has rewarded its volatility with excess return. Higher is better.

What is the benchmark of JM Focused Fund?

JM Focused Fund is benchmarked against the AMFI prescribed benchmark for all schemes except ETFs / Index Funds and FOFs with. Its alpha and beta on this page are measured against that index.

Who manages JM Focused Fund?

JM Focused Fund is managed by Ruchi Fozdar, Deepak Gupta, Satish Ramanathan and Asit Bhandarkar at JM Financial.

How is JM Focused Fund taxed?

JM Focused Fund is an equity-oriented fund, so its capital gains get concessional rates: short-term gains (units held under 1 year) are taxed at 20%, and long-term gains (held 1 year or more) at 12.5% above a ₹1.25 lakh per-year exemption. These rates apply on redemption and don't add to your income-tax slab.