HDFC Short Term Debt Fund - Direct Plan - Growth

Regular

Regular and Direct options of the funds are exactly same except commission to your mutual fund broker/distributor. As an investor you do not need to pay any additional fees to purchase any of these options. However both have different expense ratios. Regular funds have higher expense ratio and direct funds have lower expense ratio. This difference is because of commission paid to broker/distributor. Lower expense ratio leads to higher returns for investors.
Direct

Regular and Direct options of the funds are exactly same except commission to your mutual fund broker/distributor. As an investor you do not need to pay any additional fees to purchase any of these options. However both have different expense ratios. Regular funds have higher expense ratio and direct funds have lower expense ratio. This difference is because of commission paid to broker/distributor. Lower expense ratio leads to higher returns for investors.

Scheme Objective

To generate income / capital appreciation through investments in Debt and Money Market Instruments. There is no assurance that the investment objective of the Scheme will be realized.

Scheme Details

Fund manager(s) – Anil Bamboli
Launch date – 01-Jan-2013
Expense ratio – 0.4% as declared on 31-Jul-2025 (category average is 0.36%)
Benchmark - CRISIL Short Duration Debt A-II Index

Min SIP amount - ₹
Min investment amount (one time- first time) - ₹
Min investment amount (addtional purchase) - ₹
Type : Open Ended Fund. You can invest any time in this fund.

Exit Load

Data not available.

Asset Monitor

Total AUM for this Scheme (Cr)

Category Total AUM (Cr)

% of Assets in Category

2025

18235.56

0.00

0.00%

Aug - 2025	18235.56	0.00%
Jul - 2025	18143.46	0.00%
Jun - 2025	17402.27	0.00%
May - 2025	15485.82	0.00%
Apr - 2025	15030.08	0.00%
Mar - 2025	14207.90	0.00%
Feb - 2025	14390.68	0.00%
Jan - 2025	14109.65	0.00%

2024

14816.22

0.00

0.00%

Dec - 2024	14816.22	0.00	0.00%
Nov - 2024	14975.79	0.00	0.00%
Oct - 2024	14972.01	0.00	0.00%
Sep - 2024	14622.22	0.00	0.00%
Aug - 2024	14105.20	0.00	0.00%
Jul - 2024	13653.76	0.00	0.00%
Jun - 2024	13080.16	0.00	0.00%
May - 2024	13055.75	102638.90	12.72%
Apr - 2024	12947.96	101779.66	12.72%
Mar - 2024	12914.99	99021.82	13.04%
Feb - 2024	14612.39	104752.29	13.95%
Jan - 2024	14373.01	101611.55	14.15%

2023

14203.08

101353.54

14.01%

Dec - 2023	14203.08	101353.54	14.01%
Nov - 2023	12285.42	100365.19	12.24%
Oct - 2023	12301.64	99951.64	12.31%
Sep - 2023	12405.74	98317.07	12.62%
Aug - 2023	12399.59	97389.96	12.73%
Jul - 2023	12411.51	99696.61	12.45%
Jun - 2023	12320.45	99277.97	12.41%
May - 2023	12320.50	99339.58	12.40%
Apr - 2023	12127.40	94608.61	12.82%
Mar - 2023	11490.97	90730.27	12.66%
Feb - 2023	11028.58	91390.63	12.07%
Jan - 2023	10773.95	91216.31	11.81%

2022

11258.04

94245.27

11.95%

Dec - 2022	11258.04	94245.27	11.95%
Nov - 2022	12247.94	94638.79	12.94%
Oct - 2022	12505.32	95989.89	13.03%
Sep - 2022	13516.37	97598.80	13.85%
Aug - 2022	13618.94	99057.60	13.75%
Jul - 2022	13532.85	95605.52	14.15%
Jun - 2022	13834.21	96741.54	14.30%
May - 2022	14204.41	104149.77	13.64%
Apr - 2022	14549.42	112153.99	12.97%
Mar - 2022	14636.40	116456.43	12.57%
Feb - 2022	15345.09	125187.43	12.26%
Jan - 2022	17368.11	137129.84	12.67%

2021

18229.06

139229.34

13.09%

Dec - 2021	18229.06	139229.34	13.09%
Nov - 2021	18982.19	140825.19	13.48%
Oct - 2021	19407.44	140374.58	13.83%
Sep - 2021	19435.54	142728.07	13.62%
Aug - 2021	19011.31	141671.05	13.42%
Jul - 2021	18684.37	141853.55	13.17%
Jun - 2021	18016.68	143735.13	12.53%
May - 2021	18117.34	145752.04	12.43%
Apr - 2021	17442.84	145998.00	11.95%
Mar - 2021	16804.90	144274.65	11.65%
Feb - 2021	17398.21	152805.00	11.39%
Jan - 2021	18390.00	163578.65	11.24%

2020

17927.79

155961.82

11.49%

Dec - 2020	17927.79	155961.82	11.49%
Nov - 2020	16906.77	152019.52	11.12%
Oct - 2020	15461.88	137941.94	11.21%
Sep - 2020	13568.53	120923.85	11.22%
Aug - 2020	13153.94	117039.60	11.24%
Jul - 2020	12736.63	116342.75	10.95%
Jun - 2020	11137.66	102363.96	10.88%
May - 2020	10323.59	94506.88	10.92%
Apr - 2020	11000.38	90633.53	12.14%
Mar - 2020	11203.95	92510.06	12.11%
Feb - 2020	12216.31	103796.51	11.77%
Jan - 2020	11026.12	98400.14	11.21%

Tax Rate

Any profit will be clubbed with your income and taxed at your effective tax rate.

Contact Details

HDFC Asset Management Company Limited

“HDFC House”, 2nd Floor, H.T. Parekh Marg, 165-166, Backbay Reclamation, Churchgate, Mumbai 400020
Tel no.: 022-6631 6333
Fax no.: 022-2282 1144
Website.: https://www.hdfcfund.com

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