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NJ ELSS Tax Saver Scheme

Q: What is the NAV of NJ ELSS Tax Saver Scheme?

As of 20 Aug 2026, the NAV of NJ ELSS Tax Saver Scheme is ₹14.31 per unit. NAV (net asset value) is the fund's per-unit price, published once each business day.

Q: What returns has NJ ELSS Tax Saver Scheme delivered?

NJ ELSS Tax Saver Scheme has returned -2.72% over 1 year, +10.29% per year over 3 years and +11.90% 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 NJ ELSS Tax Saver Scheme?

NJ ELSS Tax Saver Scheme charges an expense ratio of 2.58% 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 NJ ELSS Tax Saver Scheme?

Its largest holdings are Pidilite Industries Ltd (5.7%), Page Industries Ltd (5.5%), Bosch Ltd (5.5%), Akzo Nobel India Ltd (5.4%) and Marico Ltd (5.3%). Holdings are disclosed monthly and change over time.

Q: How risky is NJ ELSS Tax Saver Scheme?

It is rated very high on SEBI's risk-o-meter, its trailing-3Y volatility (annualised) is 14.1% and its worst peak-to-trough fall in our sample was -23.4%. 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 0.27 mean?

The Sharpe ratio is return earned per unit of total risk, above a 6.5% risk-free rate. NJ ELSS Tax Saver Scheme's 0.27 means it has rewarded its volatility with excess return. Higher is better.

Q: What is the benchmark of NJ ELSS Tax Saver Scheme?

NJ ELSS Tax Saver Scheme is benchmarked against the Tier I Benchmark: NIFTY 500 TRI. Its alpha and beta on this page are measured against that index.

Q: Who manages NJ ELSS Tax Saver Scheme?

NJ ELSS Tax Saver Scheme is managed by Dhaval Patel and Viral Shah at NJ.

Q: How is NJ ELSS Tax Saver Scheme taxed?

NJ ELSS Tax Saver Scheme 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.

NJ Mutual Fund · Best ELSS (Tax Saving) Mutual Funds

This is the Regular plan of NJ ELSS Tax Saver Scheme — bought through a distributor, whose commission is paid out of its expense ratio. Income is distributed and paid out, which is why this NAV sits below the growth plan of the same fund.

NAV

₹14.31

+0.56% 1D

as of 20 Aug 2026

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Performance

-2.38%CAGR

52-week rangePrev NAV ₹14.23

Latest ₹14.31

Low ₹12.4579th percentile of its 52-week rangeHigh ₹14.79

Scorecard

★★★☆☆3/5 vs 68 of 65 ELSS 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 ELSS (same plan and option). 68 of the 65 ELSS funds in this cohort carry the full record the stars need, so they are the ones ranked against.

PerformanceAverage

3Y CAGR +10.29% · ranks 23 of 65 ELSS funds

RiskModerate

Volatility 14.1% vs 14.0% category avg

CostHigh

2.6% expense vs 2.2% category avg

ConsistencyHigh

100% 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

3-year return (+10.29%) beats the ELSS average (+9.24%)
Stronger risk-adjusted returns — Sharpe 0.27 vs 0.19 ELSS average
Consistent — positive in 100% of rolling 3-year windows

Concerns

1-year return (-2.72%) trails the ELSS average (+0.49%)
High expense ratio (2.58%) vs the ELSS average of 2.18%

Key Metrics

Annual fee charged by the fund, already deducted from NAV

Category 2.18%

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

Category 22.96

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

0.27

Category 0.19▲0.08

Scheme Info

Definitions

Plan

Regular · 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.

19 Jun 2023

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

Definitions

Absolute return over the last 1 month (not annualized)

+2.00%

Absolute return over the last 3 months (not annualized)

+5.07%

Absolute return over the last 6 months (not annualized)

+4.68%

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

+2.00%

Annualized returns (≥1Y — CAGR)

Definitions

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

-2.72%

3-year annualized return (CAGR)

+10.29%

5-year annualized return (CAGR)

—

10-year annualized return (CAGR)

—

Annualized return (CAGR) since the fund's inception

+11.90%

Advanced metrics — risk and benchmark ratios

Risk (trailing 3Y)

Definitions

Annualized standard deviation of daily returns

14.11%

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

0.27

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

0.36

Largest peak-to-trough decline over full history

-23.40%

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

-1.41%

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

0.96

How much of the fund's movement Nifty 500 explains

85.0%

Excess return per unit of beta (market risk)

3.32

Active return over the benchmark per unit of tracking error

-0.30

Annualized std dev of fund-minus-benchmark returns

6.20%

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

93.0%

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

99.7%

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 (ELSS)

Period	Fund	Category avg.	Diff
1M abs	+2.00%	+1.42%	+0.58%
3M abs	+5.07%	+6.22%	-1.15%
6M abs	+4.68%	+2.38%	+2.30%
1Y CAGR	-2.72%	+0.49%	-3.21%
3Y CAGR	+10.29%	+9.24%	+1.05%
5Y CAGR	—	+8.79%	—

Category average across peers in ELSS (up to 65 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 65 peers in ELSS

1Y return

-2.72%

Beats 24.6% · rank #50

3Y return

+10.29%

Beats 65.6% · rank #23

5Y return

—

Sharpe

0.27

Beats 64.6% · rank #24

Sortino

0.36

Beats 64.6% · rank #24

Rolling returns

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

This fundNifty 500

Average

+8.3%

Median

+0.1%

Best

+46.4%

Worst

-7.7%

Positive periods

51.9%

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

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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

₹3.60L

Current value

₹3.75L

Absolute

+4.28%

XIRR

+2.89%

Value vs. invested

36 monthly installments of ₹10,000 into NJ ELSS Tax Saver Scheme, 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	+1.92%	-1.50%	+3.42%
2025	-4.55%	+6.69%	-11.24%
2024	+13.85%	+15.16%	-1.31%
2023part	+28.94%	—	—

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

781

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 · ELSS

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NJ ELSS Tax Saver SchemeThis fund NJ	★★★☆☆	-2.72%	+10.29%	—	21.05	2.58%	₹324.99Cr
SBI Long Term Advantage Fund - Series V SBI	★★★★★	+3.18%	+21.42%	+16.82%	21.37	1.34%	₹345.73Cr
WhiteOak Capital ELSS Tax Saver Fund WhiteOak Capital	★★★★★	+4.66%	+16.86%	—	23.60	2.60%	₹453.00Cr
JM ELSS Tax Saver Fund JM Financial	★★★★☆	+8.74%	+16.85%	+15.05%	29.39	2.68%	₹220.95Cr
Bank of India Mid Cap Tax Fund Series 1 Bank of India	★★★★☆	+10.29%	+16.59%	+12.91%	—	1.36%	₹62.74Cr
BANK OF INDIA MID CAP TAX FUND Series 2 Bank of India	★★★★☆	+7.06%	+15.95%	+11.92%	—	1.38%	—

Market-cap allocation · AMFI bands, Jul 2026

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

Large cap39.1%
Mid cap23.8%
Small cap37.1%

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.

-23.4%26 Sep 2024 → 04 Mar 2025
Still below that high — 5 months down, and no recovery yet.
-6.6%27 Feb 2024 → 19 Mar 2024
Fell over 21 days, back to the old high on 03 Jun 2024 — 2 months under water after the low.
-5.6%03 Jun 2024 → 04 Jun 2024
Fell over 1 day, back to the old high on 07 Jun 2024 — 3 days 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

₹324.99Cr

April - June 2026

+5%

since January - March 2026

At or near its largest, ₹324.99Cr in April - June 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 ELSS (tax-saving) funds

ELSS funds are equity funds that qualify for a Section 80C deduction (up to ₹1.5 lakh a year) under the old tax regime. They carry a 3-year lock-in — the shortest of any 80C option.

Frequently asked questions

What is the NAV of NJ ELSS Tax Saver Scheme?

As of 20 Aug 2026, the NAV of NJ ELSS Tax Saver Scheme is ₹14.31 per unit. NAV (net asset value) is the fund's per-unit price, published once each business day.

What returns has NJ ELSS Tax Saver Scheme delivered?

NJ ELSS Tax Saver Scheme has returned -2.72% over 1 year, +10.29% per year over 3 years and +11.90% 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 NJ ELSS Tax Saver Scheme?

NJ ELSS Tax Saver Scheme charges an expense ratio of 2.58% 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 NJ ELSS Tax Saver Scheme?

Its largest holdings are Pidilite Industries Ltd (5.7%), Page Industries Ltd (5.5%), Bosch Ltd (5.5%), Akzo Nobel India Ltd (5.4%) and Marico Ltd (5.3%). Holdings are disclosed monthly and change over time.

How risky is NJ ELSS Tax Saver Scheme?

It is rated very high on SEBI's risk-o-meter, its trailing-3Y volatility (annualised) is 14.1% and its worst peak-to-trough fall in our sample was -23.4%. 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 0.27 mean?

The Sharpe ratio is return earned per unit of total risk, above a 6.5% risk-free rate. NJ ELSS Tax Saver Scheme's 0.27 means it has rewarded its volatility with excess return. Higher is better.

What is the benchmark of NJ ELSS Tax Saver Scheme?

NJ ELSS Tax Saver Scheme is benchmarked against the Tier I Benchmark: NIFTY 500 TRI. Its alpha and beta on this page are measured against that index.

Who manages NJ ELSS Tax Saver Scheme?

NJ ELSS Tax Saver Scheme is managed by Dhaval Patel and Viral Shah at NJ.

How is NJ ELSS Tax Saver Scheme taxed?

NJ ELSS Tax Saver Scheme 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.