Should I invest in Edelweiss Short Term Bond Fund - Daily Dividend Option?

We don't give personal investment advice. Edelweiss Short Term Bond Fund - Retail Plan - Daily Dividend Option 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: 0.6%. 5-year CAGR: 0.22%.

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Edelweiss Short Term Bond Fund - Retail Plan - Daily Dividend Option

Unit split applied to historical metrics

This scheme had a 100× unit consolidation on 30 Apr 2012. Returns, SIP simulations and risk metrics on this page are split-adjusted — they reflect what a real investor's portfolio experienced (a consolidation doesn't change portfolio value, only the unit count and per-unit NAV).

NAV history & peer comparison

All NAVs split-adjusted and normalised to 100 at the start of the selected period, so funds with very different absolute NAV scales can be compared on one axis.

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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	-0.01%	-7.11%	+7.10	482 / 732	Q3
1W	+0.17%	-12.64%	+12.81	105 / 699	Q1
2W	+0.26%	-12.71%	+12.97	141 / 712	Q1
1M	+0.31%	-12.43%	+12.74	225 / 754	Q2
3M	+0.47%	-11.47%	+11.94	320 / 740	Q2
6M	+0.89%	-9.57%	+10.46	360 / 680	Q3
YTD	+0.90%	-9.94%	+10.84	332 / 704	Q2
1Y	+0.79%	-7.10%	+7.90	333 / 627	Q3
2Y	+0.49%	-7.27%	+7.76	73 / 143	Q3
3Y	+0.35%	-2.77%	+3.12	47 / 83	Q3
4Y	+0.27%	+0.17%	+0.10	38 / 70	Q3
5Y	+0.22%	+0.12%	+0.10	38 / 66	Q3
7Y	+0.16%	-0.98%	+1.14	30 / 52	Q3
10Y	—	—	—	—	—
Inception	+0.13%	-6.12%	+6.25	382 / 770	Q2

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
2016 YTD	+0.90%	+3.57%	-2.67	24 / 41
2015	+0.12%	-1.44%	+1.57	27 / 56
2014	-0.01%	+4.04%	-4.05	39 / 46
2013	+0.04%	+2.99%	-2.94	31 / 51
2012	+0.00%	+3.57%	-3.57	35 / 54
2011	0.00%	+2.03%	-2.03	54 / 66
2010	+0.00%	-4.87%	+4.87	91 / 143
2009	+0.00%	-9.70%	+9.70	305 / 552
2008	—	—	—	—

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

+0.06%

88 windows

min -0.1% · max 0.8%

56% positive

3-Year rolling

+0.04%

64 windows

min 0.0% · max 0.3%

70% positive

5-Year rolling

+0.04%

40 windows

min 0.0% · max 0.2%

83% positive

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

7-Year rolling

+0.06%

15 windows

min 0.0% · max 0.2%

93% 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

0.36%

3-year · annualised

Sharpe ratio

—

vs risk-free 6.5%

Sortino ratio

—

Downside-only deviation

Max drawdown

-0.51%

Apr 2016 → May 2016

% positive months

50.0%

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.

Recent NAVs

Date	NAV
25 Nov 2016	₹1,011.0079
24 Nov 2016	₹1,011.1193
23 Nov 2016	₹1,010.5003
22 Nov 2016	₹1,010.1153
21 Nov 2016	₹1,010.0904
18 Nov 2016	₹1,009.2990
17 Nov 2016	₹1,009.6837
16 Nov 2016	₹1,009.6127
15 Nov 2016	₹1,007.5933
11 Nov 2016	₹1,008.4240

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.

Edelweiss Short Term Bond Fund - Retail Plan - Daily Dividend Option is a Income from Edelweiss (Retail plan, IDCW (dividend) option). Latest NAV isn't currently available in our feed — the AMC publishes it once per business day after market close.

Edelweiss Short Term Bond Fund - Retail Plan - Daily Dividend Option has NAV history starting from 10 Sep 2008, a track record of about 17 years 8 months. Long-tenured funds like this have weathered multiple market cycles — the 2008 crash, 2013 taper tantrum, 2020 COVID drawdown — which makes their returns more credible than a 3-year track record alone.

Edelweiss Short Term Bond Fund - Retail Plan - Daily Dividend Option is managed by Edelweiss. It's classified by AMFI under the 'Income' SEBI category, which determines its peer set and tax treatment.

Over the trailing 1-year window, Edelweiss Short Term Bond Fund - Retail Plan - Daily Dividend Option has delivered a absolute return of 0.79% — +7.9 pp ahead of the Income category average of -7.10%. The fund ranks #333 of 627 in its category — the third (Q3) quartile.

Over the trailing 3-year window, Edelweiss Short Term Bond Fund - Retail Plan - Daily Dividend Option has delivered a CAGR of 0.35% — +3.12 pp ahead of the Income category average of -2.77%. The fund ranks #47 of 83 in its category — the third (Q3) quartile.

Over the trailing 5-year window, Edelweiss Short Term Bond Fund - Retail Plan - Daily Dividend Option has delivered a CAGR of 0.22% — +0.1 pp ahead of the Income category average of 0.12%. The fund ranks #38 of 66 in its category — the third (Q3) quartile.

₹1 lakh invested in Edelweiss Short Term Bond Fund - Retail Plan - Daily Dividend Option exactly 5 years ago would be worth approximately ₹101,101 today — a multiplier of 1.01×, based on the 5-year CAGR of 0.22%. The category average over the same window would have grown ₹1 lakh to ₹100,600.

A ₹10,000 monthly SIP in Edelweiss Short Term Bond Fund - Retail Plan - Daily Dividend Option over the last 5 years — total invested ₹600,000 — would be worth ₹606,007 today. That's an XIRR (money-weighted annualised return) of 0.39%.

Edelweiss Short Term Bond Fund - Retail Plan - Daily Dividend Option doesn't yet have 10 years of NAVs. Over the longest available window (7-year SIP), ₹10,000/month would have grown to ₹848,648 — XIRR 0.29%.

On a 5-year basis, Edelweiss Short Term Bond Fund - Retail Plan - Daily Dividend Option ranks #38 out of 66 funds in the Income category — that places it in the third quartile (Q3) — below the median. The category average return over the same window is 0.12%; this fund delivered 0.22%.

The worst peak-to-trough decline Edelweiss Short Term Bond Fund - Retail Plan - Daily Dividend Option has experienced over the last 5-year window is 0.63% — its NAV fell from a high on 02 Apr 2013 to a low on 24 Jul 2013. 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, Edelweiss Short Term Bond Fund - Retail Plan - Daily Dividend Option averaged 0.04% (best 0.22%, worst -0.00%). 82% of rolling windows ended positive.

In calendar year 2015, Edelweiss Short Term Bond Fund - Retail Plan - Daily Dividend Option returned 0.12% — beating the Income category average of -1.44% by 1.57 pp. It ranked #27 of 56 in its category that year.

Edelweiss Short Term Bond Fund - Retail Plan - Daily Dividend Option 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. Edelweiss Short Term Bond Fund - Retail Plan - Daily Dividend Option 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: 0.6%. 5-year CAGR: 0.22%.

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