Sundaram Short Duration Fund - 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.

Category : Short Duration Fund

Fund House : PRINCIPAL Mutual Fund

NAV

This number shows latest NAV (Net Asset Value) and change in the NAV from previous day. NAV is nothing but the unit price for the fund. You will be allocated number of units based on this price. NAV is declared once each day generally at the end of the day. Once you invest in mutual funds, your money is further invested in stocks and bonds by mutual fund managers. Mutual Fund NAV is the per unit latest value of all such stocks/bonds held in the portfolio

: ₹ 45.2015 0.03%
(as on 31st October, 2025)

Crisil Rating

Very good performance among peers

Fund Size

: ₹ 195.11 Cr

(0.14% of Investment in Category)

Expense Ratio

: 0.89%

(0.97% Category average)

Risk-O-Meter

Low to Moderate Risk

Short Duration Fund :Short Duration Fund : The fund has 94.63% investment in Debt, of which 35.42% in Government securities, 59.22% is in Low Risk securities.

Suitable For : Investors who want to invest for 1-3 years and are looking for alternative to bank deposits.

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Returns (NAV as on 31st October, 2025)

Period Invested for	₹10000 Invested on	Latest Value	Absolute Returns	Annualised Returns	Category Avg	Rank within Category
1 Week	24-Oct-25	10005.30	0.05%	-	0.09%	22/24
1 Month	30-Sep-25	10063.50	0.64%	-	0.68%	18/24
3 Month	31-Jul-25	10123.60	1.24%	-	1.26%	16/24
6 Month	30-Apr-25	10291.30	2.91%	-	3.06%	17/24
YTD	01-Jan-25	10653.70	6.54%	-	6.75%	18/23
1 Year	31-Oct-24	10766.50	7.67%	7.66%	7.95%	18/23
2 Year	31-Oct-23	11660.20	16.60%	7.97%	7.95%	12/23
3 Year	31-Oct-22	12428.50	24.28%	7.51%	7.52%	11/23
5 Year	29-Oct-20	13265.60	32.66%	5.80%	5.96%	8/20
10 Year	30-Oct-15	17630.20	76.30%	5.83%	6.65%	16/18
Since Inception	09-May-03	45201.50	352.01%	6.94%	6.91%	13/24

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SIP Returns (NAV as on 31st October, 2025)

Period Invested for	₹1000 SIP Started on	Investments	Latest Value	Absolute Returns	Annualised Returns
1 Year	31-Oct-24	12000	12464.95	3.87 %	7.22 %
2 Year	31-Oct-23	24000	25970.58	8.21 %	7.76 %
3 Year	31-Oct-22	36000	40414.43	12.26 %	7.64 %
5 Year	29-Oct-20	60000	71256.15	18.76 %	6.8 %
10 Year	30-Oct-15	120000	162502.2	35.42 %	5.91 %

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Tax Treatment

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

Portfolio (Updated on 30th Sep,2025)

No of Debt Holding 26 (Category Avg - 67.58) | Modified Duration 2.68 Years (Category Avg - 2.62)| Yield to Maturity 6.75% (Category Avg - 6.89%)

Type of Holdings

Security Type	% Weight	Category Average
GOI	35.42%	20.36%
CD	0.00%	3.36%
T-Bills	0.00%	0.04%
CP	0.00%	0.67%
NCD & Bonds	59.22%	69.24%
PTC	0.00%	2.63%

Investment / Portfolio Grades

Security Type	% Weight	Category Average
Government Backed	35.42%	20.39%
Low Risk	59.22%	75.89%
Moderate Risk	0.00%	0.00%
High Risk	0.00%	0.00%
Very High Risk	0.00%	0.00%
Others	0.00%	0.00%

Detailed Portfolio Analysis

Name	Type of Instrument	Weight (%)
Net Receivables	Net Receivables	3.12%
TREPS	TREPS	2.26%

Detailed Portfolio Analysis

Risk Ratios

Ratios calculated on daily returns for last 3 years (Updated as on 30th September, 2025)

Standard Deviation
Standard Deviation value gives an idea about how volatile fund returns has been in the past 3 years. Lower value indicates more predictable performance. So if you are comparing 2 funds (lets say Fund A and Fund B) in the same category. If Fund A and Fund B has given 9% returns in last 3 years, but Fund A standard deviation value is lower than Fund B. So you can say that there is a higher chance that Fund A will continue giving similar returns in future also whereas Fund B returns may vary.

Low volatility

0.68vs0.83

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Beta
Beta value gives idea about how volatile fund performance has been compared to similar funds in the market. Lower beta implies the fund gives more predictable performance compared to similar funds in the market. So if you are comparing 2 funds (lets say Fund A and Fund B) in the same category. If Fund A and Fund B has given 9% returns in last 3 years, but Fund A beta value is lower than Fund B. So you can say that there is a higher chance that Fund A will continue giving similar returns in future also whereas Fund B returns may vary.

Low volatility

0.81vs0.88

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Sharpe Ratio
Sharpe ratio indicates how much risk was taken to generate the returns. Higher the value means, fund has been able to give better returns for the amount of risk taken. It is calculated by subtracting the risk-free return, defined as an Indian Government Bond, from the fund's returns, and then dividing by the standard deviation of returns. For example, if fund A and fund B both have 3-year returns of 15%, and fund A has a Sharpe ratio of 1.40 and fund B has a Sharpe ratio of 1.25, you can chooses fund A, as it has given higher risk-adjusted return.

Better risk adjusted returns

2.1vs1.89

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Treynor's Ratio
Treynor's ratio indicates how much excess return was generated for each unit of risk taken. Higher the value means, fund has been able to give better returns for the amount of risk taken. It is calculated by subtracting the risk-free return, defined as an Indian Government Bond, from the fund's returns, and then dividing by the beta of returns. For example, if fund A and fund B both have 3-year returns of 15%, and fund A has a Treynor's ratio of 1.40 and fund B has a Treynor's ratio of 1.25, then you can chooses fund A, as it has given higher risk-adjusted return.

Better risk adjusted returns

0.02vs0.02

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Jensen's Alpha
Alpha indicates how fund generated additional returns compared to a benchmark. Let's say if a fund A benchmarks its returns with Nifty50 returns then alpha equal to 1.0 indicates the fund has beaten the nifty returns by 1%, so the higher the alpha, the better.

Better risk adjusted returns

0.24vs-0.01

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Alternative Funds (Category Peers)

Scheme Name	Crisil Rank	Asset Size (Cr)	1M	3M	6M	1Y	3Y
Bank of India Short Term Income Fund - Growth	2	241.11	0.65	1.32	3.02	9.38	9.99
Axis Short Duration Fund - Growth	3	12200.82	0.73	1.42	3.39	8.58	7.77
Nippon India Short Duration Fund - Growth	3	8816.28	0.79	1.38	3.34	8.45	7.76
SBI Short Term Debt Fund - Regular Plan - Growth	1	16276.82	0.72	1.37	3.28	8.24	7.63
HDFC Short Term Debt Fund - Growth	3	17621.91	0.78	1.41	3.33	8.21	7.93
ICICI Prudential Short Term Fund - Growth	2	22387.34	0.72	1.39	3.34	8.19	7.79
HSBC Short Duration Fund - Growth	4	4454.79	0.69	1.36	3.24	8.14	7.44
Aditya Birla Sun Life Short Term Fund - Regular Plan - Growth	1	10696.23	0.82	1.39	3.17	8.13	7.63
TRUSTMF Short Duration Fund - Regular Plan - Growth	4	102.44	0.63	1.31	3.14	7.99	7.29
Baroda BNP Paribas Short Duration Fund - Regular Plan - Growth	2	271.94	0.74	1.26	3.09	7.98	7.58

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Scheme Name	Crisil Rank	Asset Size (Cr)	1M	3M	6M	1Y	3Y
Sundaram Mid Cap Fund - Growth	4	12585.11	5.17	4.70	12.95	6.10	24.20
Sundaram Liquid Fund - Regular Plan - Growth	2	7481.60	0.47	1.40	2.94	6.61	6.94
Sundaram Aggressive Hybrid Fund - Growth	2	6944.38	3.01	2.53	4.76	4.50	12.65
Sundaram Large and Mid Cap Fund - Growth	3	6740.02	4.28	4.20	8.76	4.22	16.30
Sundaram Services Fund - Growth	NA	4425.86	5.99	4.87	10.80	11.64	18.68
Sundaram Services Fund - Growth	NA	4425.86	4.42	1.74	4.25	6.61	11.68
Sundaram Small Cap Fund - Growth	3	3340.55	4.77	3.11	14.92	1.61	20.75
Sundaram Large Cap Fund - Regular Plan - Growth	1	3279.53	3.15	1.30	3.60	2.60	11.72
Sundaram Multi Cap Fund - Growth	3	2828.73	4.29	3.80	11.02	5.85	17.55
Sundaram Multi Asset Allocation Fund - Regular Plan - Growth	NA	2798.62	3.47	6.55	9.22	14.30	0.00