Should I invest in DSP Corporate Bond Fund - Direct?

We don't give personal investment advice. DSP Corporate Bond Fund - Direct - IDCW is suitable for an investor whose:time horizon matches the fund's modified duration — short-duration funds for 1-3 year goals, long-duration for 7+ yearsprimary goal is capital preservation or steady accrual, not high growthtax slab is moderate — high-slab investors should evaluate post-tax yield against tax-free alternatives (PPF, tax-free bonds)Cross-check the numbers above against alternatives before deciding. Worst 5-year drawdown: 6.8%. 5-year CAGR: 0.33%.

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DSP Corporate Bond Fund - Direct - IDCW

Latest NAV

₹11.3613

As of

3 Jun 2026

1,873 NAV records on file

NAV history & peer comparison

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Returns matrix

Fund return alongside the category average and peer rank for every standard window. Returns under one year are absolute; one year and longer are compound annualised (CAGR).

Window	Fund	Category avg	+/− vs avg	Rank	Quartile
1D	+0.03%	+14.97%	-14.94	57 / 72	Q4
1W	+0.22%	+15.14%	-14.92	49 / 72	Q3
2W	+0.16%	+15.28%	-15.12	62 / 72	Q4
1M	+0.19%	+15.20%	-15.01	22 / 72	Q2
3M	-5.01%	+14.82%	-19.83	65 / 72	Q4
6M	-3.90%	+15.94%	-19.84	64 / 71	Q4
YTD	-4.21%	+15.04%	-19.25	64 / 71	Q4
1Y	-0.95%	+17.89%	-18.84	48 / 71	Q3
2Y	+0.26%	+5.94%	-5.68	46 / 71	Q3
3Y	-0.07%	+2.32%	-2.38	54 / 66	Q4
4Y	+1.24%	+2.56%	-1.31	28 / 61	Q2
5Y	+0.33%	+1.49%	-1.16	25 / 52	Q2
7Y	+0.54%	+1.91%	-1.36	27 / 50	Q3
10Y	—	—	—	—	—
Inception	+1.65%	+6.36%	-4.71	34 / 67	Q3

Quartile legend: Q1 top 25% Q2 25-50% Q3 50-75% Q4 bottom 25%

Calendar-year returns

Full-year performance vs category average. Current year is partial (year-to-date).

Year	Fund	Category avg	+/− vs avg	Rank
2026 YTD	-4.21%	-0.52%	-3.69	52 / 58
2025	+0.30%	+3.04%	-2.74	45 / 61
2024	+0.57%	+3.39%	-2.82	42 / 62
2023	+4.32%	+2.73%	+1.59	23 / 60
2022	-1.32%	+19.77%	-21.09	49 / 61
2021	-4.01%	-1.89%	-2.12	46 / 54
2020	+2.47%	+4.23%	-1.76	24 / 50
2019	+11.38%	+2.75%	+8.63	2 / 47
2018	—	—	—	—

Rolling returns

Removes start-date bias by averaging CAGR over every overlapping N-year window in the fund's history. Higher average plus tight min/max plus high "% positive" = consistent.

1-Year rolling

+1.51%

83 windows

min -4.0% · max 13.1%

63% positive

3-Year rolling

+0.76%

58 windows

min -1.4% · max 4.1%

64% positive

Limited basis — fund is young, so this average may be skewed by which 3Y windows happen to be available.

5-Year rolling

+0.75%

34 windows

min -0.1% · max 2.9%

79% positive

Limited basis — fund is young, so this average may be skewed by which 5Y windows happen to be available.

7-Year rolling

+1.58%

10 windows

min 0.5% · max 2.2%

100% positive

Limited basis — fund is young, so this average may be skewed by which 7Y windows happen to be available.

SIP returns — historical "what if"

If you had invested every month in this fund over the chosen period, this is what your investment would be worth today.

Period

Total invested

₹ —

Today's value

₹ —

XIRR

Annualised

Wealth multiplier

Period	Total invested	Today's value	XIRR	Wealth multiplier

XIRR is the annualised internal rate of return on the SIP cash flow — invariant to the monthly amount. "Today's value" and "Total invested" scale linearly with the slider. Past performance does not guarantee future returns. Excludes exit load and taxes.

Risk profile

Risk-adjusted return and volatility, computed from monthly NAV returns over the trailing 3-year and 5-year windows.

Std deviation

6.28%

3-year · annualised

Sharpe ratio

-1.01

vs risk-free 6.5%

Sortino ratio

-1.07

Downside-only deviation

Max drawdown

-6.78%

Mar 2025 → Apr 2025

% positive months

91.7%

Share of monthly returns > 0 over the 3-year window

Sharpe / Sortino use a risk-free rate of 6.5% (1-year T-bill proxy). Higher Sharpe = more return per unit of total risk; higher Sortino = more return per unit of downside risk.

Peers in Corporate Bond Fund

Scheme	Fund house	NAV	As of
HDFC Corporate Bond Fund - IDCW Option - Direct Plan	HDFC	₹21.0823	3 Jun 2026
NIPPON INDIA CORPORATE BOND FUND - DIRECT Plan - DAILY IDCW Option	Nippon India	₹17.0800	3 Jun 2026
SBI Corporate Bond Fund - Direct Plan - Monthly Income Distribution cum Capital Withdrawal Option (IDCW)	SBI	₹15.6984	3 Jun 2026
ICICI Prudential Corporate Bond Fund - Direct Plan - Monthly IDCW	ICICI Prudential	₹10.2250	3 Jun 2026
Invesco India Corporate Bond Fund - Direct Plan - Annual IDCW (Payout / Reinvestment)	Invesco	₹1,216.0142	3 Jun 2026
BANDHAN Corporate Bond Fund - Direct Annual IDCW	Bandhan	₹10.3094	3 Jun 2026
Aditya Birla Sun Life Corporate Bond Fund -DIRECT - IDCW	Aditya Birla Sun Life	₹10.4102	3 Jun 2026
Franklin India Corporate Debt Fund - Plan A - Direct - Annual - IDCW	Franklin India	₹18.7176	3 Jun 2026
Mirae Asset Corporate Bond Fund Direct IDCW	Mirae Asset	₹13.5152	3 Jun 2026
Kotak Corporate Bond Fund- Direct Plan- Monthly Payout of Income Distribution cum capital withdrawal option	Kotak	₹1,071.7888	3 Jun 2026

Recent NAVs

Date	NAV
3 Jun 2026	₹11.3613
2 Jun 2026	₹11.3605
1 Jun 2026	₹11.3570
29 May 2026	₹11.3478
27 May 2026	₹11.3396
26 May 2026	₹11.3357
25 May 2026	₹11.3356
22 May 2026	₹11.3276
21 May 2026	₹11.3279
20 May 2026	₹11.3389

Frequently asked questions

These answers are generated from this fund's live metrics — NAV, returns, peer rank, drawdown, SIP backtest. Numbers refresh nightly after AMFI's NAV feed lands.

As of 03 Jun 2026, the NAV of DSP Corporate Bond Fund - Direct - IDCW is ₹11.3613. It's a Corporate Bond Fund from DSP, run as a Direct plan IDCW (dividend) option. NAVs update once per business day from the AMFI feed.

DSP Corporate Bond Fund - Direct - IDCW has NAV history starting from 11 Sep 2018, a track record of about 7 years 8 months. That's enough history to evaluate the fund across one or two market cycles. Look at rolling returns rather than point-to-point to judge consistency.

DSP Corporate Bond Fund - Direct - IDCW is managed by DSP. It's classified by AMFI under the 'Corporate Bond Fund' SEBI category, which determines its peer set and tax treatment.

Over the trailing 1-year window, DSP Corporate Bond Fund - Direct - IDCW has delivered a absolute return of -0.95% — -18.84 pp behind the Corporate Bond Fund category average of 17.89%. The fund ranks #48 of 71 in its category — the third (Q3) quartile.

Over the trailing 3-year window, DSP Corporate Bond Fund - Direct - IDCW has delivered a CAGR of -0.07% — -2.38 pp behind the Corporate Bond Fund category average of 2.32%. The fund ranks #54 of 66 in its category — the bottom (Q4) quartile.

Over the trailing 5-year window, DSP Corporate Bond Fund - Direct - IDCW has delivered a CAGR of 0.33% — -1.16 pp behind the Corporate Bond Fund category average of 1.49%. The fund ranks #25 of 52 in its category — the second (Q2) quartile.

₹1 lakh invested in DSP Corporate Bond Fund - Direct - IDCW exactly 5 years ago would be worth approximately ₹101,667 today — a multiplier of 1.02×, based on the 5-year CAGR of 0.33%. The category average over the same window would have grown ₹1 lakh to ₹107,656.

A ₹10,000 monthly SIP in DSP Corporate Bond Fund - Direct - IDCW over the last 5 years — total invested ₹600,000 — would be worth ₹596,374 today. That's an XIRR (money-weighted annualised return) of -0.24%.

DSP Corporate Bond Fund - Direct - IDCW doesn't yet have 10 years of NAVs. Over the longest available window (7-year SIP), ₹10,000/month would have grown to ₹834,132 — XIRR -0.20%.

On a 5-year basis, DSP Corporate Bond Fund - Direct - IDCW ranks #25 out of 52 funds in the Corporate Bond Fund category — that places it in the second quartile (Q2) — above the median. The category average return over the same window is 1.49%; this fund delivered 0.33%.

The worst peak-to-trough decline DSP Corporate Bond Fund - Direct - IDCW has experienced over the last 5-year window is 6.78% — its NAV fell from a high on 31 Mar 2025 to a low on 02 Apr 2025. Drawdown is a useful gauge of how much short-term pain you'd have endured to capture the long-term return.

Across all 5-year rolling windows, DSP Corporate Bond Fund - Direct - IDCW averaged 0.75% (best 2.87%, worst -0.06%). 79% of rolling windows ended positive. The 5-year Sharpe ratio is -1.12 — negative risk-adjusted performance.

In calendar year 2025, DSP Corporate Bond Fund - Direct - IDCW returned 0.30% — lagging the Corporate Bond Fund category average of 3.04% by 2.74 pp. It ranked #45 of 61 in its category that year.

DSP Corporate Bond Fund - Direct - IDCW is classified as a Debt fund. For units acquired on or after 1 April 2023, all gains are taxed at your income-tax slab rate regardless of holding period — there's no LTCG concession or indexation. For pre-April-2023 units, the old rules with indexation still apply on long-term gains.

We don't give personal investment advice. DSP Corporate Bond Fund - Direct - IDCW is suitable for an investor whose:

time horizon matches the fund's modified duration — short-duration funds for 1-3 year goals, long-duration for 7+ years
primary goal is capital preservation or steady accrual, not high growth
tax slab is moderate — high-slab investors should evaluate post-tax yield against tax-free alternatives (PPF, tax-free bonds)

Cross-check the numbers above against alternatives before deciding. Worst 5-year drawdown: 6.8%. 5-year CAGR: 0.33%.

Educational content only — not investment advice. Tax rules summarised above reflect Budget 2024; consult a qualified adviser before transacting.