Should I invest in HDFC Medium Term Debt Fund - Fornightly IDCW Option?

We don't give personal investment advice. HDFC Medium Term Debt Fund - Fornightly IDCW 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: 2.4%. 5-year CAGR: -0.08%.

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HDFC Medium Term Debt Fund - Fornightly IDCW Option

Latest NAV

₹10.0891

As of

24 Jul 2026

4,918 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	+0.01%	-0.07%	+0.08	12 / 32	Q2
1W	-0.06%	-0.07%	+0.01	17 / 32	Q3
2W	-0.61%	-0.06%	-0.55	30 / 32	Q4
1M	-0.66%	+0.34%	-1.00	31 / 32	Q4
3M	-0.27%	+1.31%	-1.57	29 / 32	Q4
6M	+0.01%	+1.91%	-1.90	28 / 32	Q4
YTD	-0.26%	+1.01%	-1.28	27 / 32	Q4
1Y	-0.52%	+2.16%	-2.68	26 / 32	Q4
2Y	-0.24%	+2.89%	-3.13	27 / 31	Q4
3Y	-0.19%	+3.18%	-3.37	28 / 31	Q4
4Y	+0.07%	+3.06%	-2.99	27 / 31	Q4
5Y	-0.08%	+2.64%	-2.72	27 / 31	Q4
7Y	-0.68%	+2.72%	-3.40	27 / 28	Q4
10Y	-0.48%	+3.11%	-3.59	24 / 25	Q4
Inception	-0.21%	+2.93%	-3.14	32 / 32	Q4

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	-0.26%	+1.77%	-2.03	15 / 17
2025	+0.03%	+3.35%	-3.31	16 / 20
2024	+0.03%	+4.91%	-4.88	17 / 20
2023	+0.00%	+3.99%	-3.99	19 / 20
2022	+0.10%	+0.86%	-0.76	16 / 24
2021	-1.13%	+2.88%	-4.01	20 / 25
2020	-3.76%	+1.22%	-4.98	26 / 30
2019	+0.13%	+2.51%	-2.38	21 / 30
2018	+0.09%	+2.64%	-2.54	25 / 30
2017	+0.26%	+2.00%	-1.74	15 / 30
2016	-0.90%	+5.02%	-5.92	30 / 31

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

-0.23%

236 windows

min -5.1% · max 2.1%

48% positive

3-Year rolling

-0.27%

211 windows

min -2.2% · max 0.9%

37% positive

5-Year rolling

-0.31%

187 windows

min -1.3% · max 0.5%

31% positive

7-Year rolling

-0.31%

163 windows

min -0.9% · max 0.3%

17% positive

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

1.27%

3-year · annualised

Sharpe ratio

-5.26

vs risk-free 6.5%

Sortino ratio

-7.11

Downside-only deviation

Max drawdown

-1.72%

Apr 2025 → Apr 2026

% positive months

38.9%

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 Medium Duration Fund

Scheme	Fund house	NAV	As of
HDFC Medium Term Debt Fund - Growth Option	HDFC	₹59.9614	24 Jul 2026
Nippon India Medium Duration Fund - Segregated Portfolio 2 - Bonus Option	Nippon India	₹0.0000	24 Jul 2026
SBI MEDIUM DURATION FUND - REGULAR PLAN - GROWTH	SBI	₹54.5069	24 Jul 2026
ICICI Prudential Medium Term Bond Fund - Growth	ICICI Prudential	₹48.2276	24 Jul 2026
Kotak Medium Term Fund - Standard Income Distribution cum capital withdrawal option	Kotak	₹14.9554	24 Jul 2026
Bandhan Medium Duration Fund - Regular Plan - Bi-Monthly IDCW	IDFC	₹10.4662	24 Jul 2026
Sundaram Medium Duration Fund (Formerly Known as Sundaram Medium Term Bond Fund) Regular Plan - Growth	Sundaram BNP Paribas	₹71.5609	24 Jul 2026

Recent NAVs

Date	NAV
24 Jul 2026	₹10.0891
23 Jul 2026	₹10.0876
22 Jul 2026	₹10.0898
21 Jul 2026	₹10.0977
20 Jul 2026	₹10.0939
17 Jul 2026	₹10.0948
16 Jul 2026	₹10.0921
15 Jul 2026	₹10.0830
14 Jul 2026	₹10.0784
13 Jul 2026	₹10.0995

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 24 Jul 2026, the NAV of HDFC Medium Term Debt Fund - Fornightly IDCW Option is ₹10.0891. It's a Medium Duration Fund from HDFC, run as a Unknown plan IDCW (dividend) option. NAVs update once per business day from the AMFI feed.

HDFC Medium Term Debt Fund - Fornightly IDCW Option has NAV history starting from 03 Apr 2006, a track record of about 20 years 3 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.

HDFC Medium Term Debt Fund - Fornightly IDCW Option is managed by HDFC. It's classified by AMFI under the 'Medium Duration Fund' SEBI category, which determines its peer set and tax treatment.

Over the trailing 1-year window, HDFC Medium Term Debt Fund - Fornightly IDCW Option has delivered a absolute return of -0.52% — -2.68 pp behind the Medium Duration Fund category average of 2.16%. The fund ranks #26 of 32 in its category — the bottom (Q4) quartile.

Over the trailing 3-year window, HDFC Medium Term Debt Fund - Fornightly IDCW Option has delivered a CAGR of -0.19% — -3.37 pp behind the Medium Duration Fund category average of 3.18%. The fund ranks #28 of 31 in its category — the bottom (Q4) quartile.

Over the trailing 5-year window, HDFC Medium Term Debt Fund - Fornightly IDCW Option has delivered a CAGR of -0.08% — -2.72 pp behind the Medium Duration Fund category average of 2.64%. The fund ranks #27 of 31 in its category — the bottom (Q4) quartile.

₹1 lakh invested in HDFC Medium Term Debt Fund - Fornightly IDCW Option exactly 10 years ago would be worth approximately ₹95,309 today — a multiplier of 0.95×, based on the 10-year CAGR of -0.48%. The category average over the same window would have grown ₹1 lakh to ₹135,875.

A ₹10,000 monthly SIP in HDFC Medium Term Debt Fund - Fornightly IDCW Option over the last 5 years — total invested ₹600,000 — would be worth ₹598,537 today. That's an XIRR (money-weighted annualised return) of -0.10%.

A ₹10,000 monthly SIP for 10 years in HDFC Medium Term Debt Fund - Fornightly IDCW Option = ₹1,200,000 invested. It would currently be worth ₹1,174,016 (multiplier 0.98×). XIRR: -0.43%. Long-horizon SIP results matter more than point-to-point returns because they smooth out entry timing.

On a 5-year basis, HDFC Medium Term Debt Fund - Fornightly IDCW Option ranks #27 out of 31 funds in the Medium Duration Fund category — that places it in the bottom quartile (Q4) — material underperformance. The category average return over the same window is 2.64%; this fund delivered -0.08%.

The worst peak-to-trough decline HDFC Medium Term Debt Fund - Fornightly IDCW Option has experienced over the last 5-year window is 2.41% — its NAV fell from a high on 13 Sep 2021 to a low on 09 May 2022. 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, HDFC Medium Term Debt Fund - Fornightly IDCW Option averaged -0.31% (best 0.45%, worst -1.28%). 31% of rolling windows ended positive. The 5-year Sharpe ratio is -4.58 — negative risk-adjusted performance.

In calendar year 2025, HDFC Medium Term Debt Fund - Fornightly IDCW Option returned 0.03% — lagging the Medium Duration Fund category average of 3.35% by 3.31 pp. It ranked #16 of 20 in its category that year.

HDFC Medium Term Debt Fund - Fornightly IDCW 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. HDFC Medium Term Debt Fund - Fornightly IDCW 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: 2.4%. 5-year CAGR: -0.08%.

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