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HDFC ELSS Tax saver - Growth Option - Direct Plan is an equity scheme managed by HDFC Mutual Fund. Over rolling three-year windows since inception, investors earned a median compounded return of 24.75%, with the bottom and top quartiles at 21.87% and 26.93% respectively. It has ranked in the top half of its category for 2 of the last 2 reported years. The total expense ratio is 1.11% on assets of ₹15,559Cr. The fund is currently managed by Mr. Amar Kalkundrikar, appointed within the last year.
Lower is better.
This scheme classifies as Large-Value on the 3x3 equity style box, with 92% of its portfolio classified as of 2026-05-29.
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| Window | Min | P25 | Median |
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Point-in-time CAGRs cherry-pick a single start date. The chart below shows the distribution of every possible rolling start over the fund's history, so you see the range of investor outcomes — not just one date's number.
Backtested SIP outcomes across both rolling-window scenarios and named historical stress events (COVID, Election uncertainty, Russia/Ukraine, etc.), plus per-manager alpha during their tenure on this scheme.
Same fund, monthly SIPs over rolling 1/3/5-year windows.
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In-house derivations using 3-year daily NAV vs benchmark. See methodology.
| Weight |
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| ICICI BANK LIMITED | Financial Services | 8.93% |
| HDFC BANK LIMITED | Financial Services | 8.23% |
| AXIS BANK LIMITED | Financial Services | 7.22% |
| STATE BANK OF INDIA | Financial Services | 4.81% |
| MARUTI SUZUKI INDIA LIMITED | Consumer Cyclical | 4.71% |
| BHARTI AIRTEL LIMITED | Communication Services | 4.59% |
| SBI LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY LIMITED | Financial Services | 3.51% |
| RELIANCE INDUSTRIES LIMITED | Energy | 3.06% |
| HCL TECHNOLOGIES LIMITED | Technology | 2.76% |
| Hyundai Motor India Ltd | Consumer Cyclical | 2.34% |
| POWER GRID CORPORATION OF INDIA LIMITED | Utilities | 2.25% |
| TATA STEEL LIMITED | Basic Materials | 2.04% |
| INFOSYS LIMITED | Technology | 2.02% |
| BAJAJ AUTO LIMITED | Consumer Cyclical | 1.93% |
| BRITANNIA INDUSTRIES LIMITED | Consumer Defensive | 1.84% |
| LARSEN AND TOUBRO LIMITED | Industrials | 1.63% |
| JSW STEEL LIMITED | Basic Materials | 1.63% |
| APOLLO HOSPITALS ENTERPRISE LIMITED | Healthcare | 1.35% |
| JUBILANT FOODWORKS LIMITED | Consumer Cyclical | 1.22% |
| BOSCH LIMITED | Consumer Cyclical | 1.16% |
| INTERGLOBE AVIATION LIMITED | Industrials | 1.10% |
| ESCORTS KUBOTA LIMITED | Industrials | 1.04% |
| CIPLA LIMITED | Healthcare | 1.04% |
| MPHASIS LIMITED | Technology | 1.02% |
| STAR HEALTH AND ALLIED INSURANCE COMPANY LTD. | Financial Services | 1.01% |
| Sector | Holdings | Weight |
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| Financial Services | 7 | 42.12% |
| Automobile and Auto Components | — | 11.98% |
| Information Technology | — | 7.13% |
| Healthcare | 7 | 6.89% |
| Telecommunication | — | 4.59% |
| Fast Moving Consumer Goods | — | 4.20% |
| Metals & Mining | — | 3.67% |
| Consumer Services | — | 3.47% |
| Oil, Gas & Consumable Fuels | — | 3.06% |
| Power | — | 2.25% |
Active bets vs the average Equity fund. Biggest deviations shown first.
Accent bar = fund's actual sector weight. Vertical black tick = category average for the same sector. Green overlay = overweight, dashed red = underweight. The biggest active bets show first.
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| Max |
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| 1Y | -4.76% | 10.12% | 18.96% | 41.28% | 68.51% | 96.6% |
| 3Y | 16.14% | 21.87% | 24.75% | 26.93% | 30.37% | 100.0% |
| 5Y | 16.62% | 19.67% | 24.02% | 26.17% | 28.79% | 100.0% |
Each cell is one year. Q1 = top quartile within the AMFI category for that period. Cell label is the last two digits of the year.
Top-10 weight 50.2% means concentration is in line with most actively-managed Indian equity funds. Effective-N is the inverse Herfindahl index — a measure of "how many positions effectively drive the fund" after weighting. Category: Equity.
Compounding maths on a notional ₹10 lakh lumpsum at 12% gross annual return. Green bar is what you'd have without the fee; red overlay is the fee drag. Fee is constant in this scenario — actual outcomes depend on real returns and any future TER changes.
What an investor SIPping into this fund actually got during named market shocks.
Each row is a back-tested SIP — monthly contribution over the regime's duration, no fees adjustment beyond NAV-baked TER. XIRR is the annualised IRR of those cashflows; Abs return is the absolute cash-on-cash; Max DD is the deepest drawdown experienced mid-investment. Past performance is not indicative of future results.
Alpha is the annualised excess return vs benchmark over the manager's tenure on this scheme. Beat-benchmark = total return beat the index over the same window.