Kotak Bond Short Term Plan - 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

The investment objective of the Scheme is to provide reasonable returns and reasonably high levels of liquidity by investing in debt instruments such as bonds, debentures and Government securities; and money market instruments such as treasury bills, commercial papers, certificates of deposit, including repos in permitted securities of different maturities, so as to spread the risk across different kinds of issuers in the debt markets.

Scheme Details

Fund manager(s) – Abhishek Bisen , Deepesh Agarwal
Launch date – 02-Jan-2013
Expense ratio – 0.38% as declared on 31-Aug-2025 (category average is 0.35%)
Benchmark - NIFTY Short Duration Debt Index A-II

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

18229.73

0.00

0.00%

Aug - 2025	18229.73	0.00%
Jul - 2025	18174.25	0.00%
Jun - 2025	17676.41	0.00%
May - 2025	17540.57	0.00%
Apr - 2025	17821.39	0.00%
Mar - 2025	16681.43	0.00%
Feb - 2025	17187.72	0.00%
Jan - 2025	16979.34	0.00%

2024

16790.00

0.00

0.00%

Dec - 2024	16790.00	0.00	0.00%
Nov - 2024	16672.97	0.00	0.00%
Oct - 2024	16894.54	0.00	0.00%
Sep - 2024	16806.44	0.00	0.00%
Aug - 2024	16078.88	0.00	0.00%
Jul - 2024	15079.54	0.00	0.00%
Jun - 2024	15045.22	0.00	0.00%
May - 2024	14949.40	102638.90	14.57%
Apr - 2024	14803.86	101779.66	14.55%
Mar - 2024	13826.38	99021.82	13.96%
Feb - 2024	14738.23	104752.29	14.07%
Jan - 2024	13635.18	101611.55	13.42%

2023

13419.10

101353.54

13.24%

Dec - 2023	13419.10	101353.54	13.24%
Nov - 2023	13558.30	100365.19	13.51%
Oct - 2023	13624.28	99951.64	13.63%
Sep - 2023	13183.59	98317.07	13.41%
Aug - 2023	13240.58	97389.96	13.60%
Jul - 2023	13224.96	99696.61	13.27%
Jun - 2023	13212.45	99277.97	13.31%
May - 2023	13277.58	99339.58	13.37%
Apr - 2023	12537.12	94608.61	13.25%
Mar - 2023	12470.92	90730.27	13.75%
Feb - 2023	12203.28	91390.63	13.35%
Jan - 2023	12465.17	91216.31	13.67%

2022

13372.20

94245.27

14.19%

Dec - 2022	13372.20	94245.27	14.19%
Nov - 2022	13040.30	94638.79	13.78%
Oct - 2022	12372.91	95989.89	12.89%
Sep - 2022	12724.08	97598.80	13.04%
Aug - 2022	12682.98	99057.60	12.80%
Jul - 2022	13157.52	95605.52	13.76%
Jun - 2022	13113.54	96741.54	13.56%
May - 2022	13339.16	104149.77	12.81%
Apr - 2022	15112.76	112153.99	13.48%
Mar - 2022	15587.32	116456.43	13.38%
Feb - 2022	15898.08	125187.43	12.70%
Jan - 2022	16715.15	137129.84	12.19%

2021

17261.04

139229.34

12.40%

Dec - 2021	17261.04	139229.34	12.40%
Nov - 2021	18707.47	140825.19	13.28%
Oct - 2021	17141.57	140374.58	12.21%
Sep - 2021	17160.49	142728.07	12.02%
Aug - 2021	16809.55	141671.05	11.87%
Jul - 2021	16677.90	141853.55	11.76%
Jun - 2021	17391.85	143735.13	12.10%
May - 2021	17362.76	145752.04	11.91%
Apr - 2021	17020.08	145998.00	11.66%
Mar - 2021	16608.11	144274.65	11.51%
Feb - 2021	18328.52	152805.00	11.99%
Jan - 2021	21024.56	163578.65	12.85%

2020

19644.21

155961.82

12.60%

Dec - 2020	19644.21	155961.82	12.60%
Nov - 2020	19164.04	152019.52	12.61%
Oct - 2020	17050.35	137941.94	12.36%
Sep - 2020	14379.44	120923.85	11.89%
Aug - 2020	12848.37	117039.60	10.98%
Jul - 2020	14192.75	116342.75	12.20%
Jun - 2020	11857.78	102363.96	11.58%
May - 2020	10534.43	94506.88	11.15%
Apr - 2020	9927.90	90633.53	10.95%
Mar - 2020	9526.45	92510.06	10.30%
Feb - 2020	11559.57	103796.51	11.14%
Jan - 2020	11400.36	98400.14	11.59%

Tax Rate

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

Contact Details

Kotak Mahindra Asset Management Co. Ltd.

27 BKC, C-27, G Block, Bandra Kurla Complex, Bandra (E) Mumbai 400051
Tel no.: 022-61152100
Fax no.: 022-67082213
Website.: www.kotakmf.com

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