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Returns vs category
3 years: 8.26% a year, 29th of 29 aggressive hybrid funds
Direct-Growth plan, a year, to 9 November 2026, from AMFI NAVs. Ranks and averages cover the 30 aggressive hybrid funds AMFI lists that are old enough for each period.
Year by year
Ahead of the category average in 2 of the last 10 calendar years
- 2016+0.8%avg +6.8%
- 2017+35.9%avg +27.2%
- 2018−10.7%avg −2.3%
- 2019+8.2%avg +9.3%
- 2020+14.1%avg +15.9%
- 2021+26.5%avg +28.1%
- 2022+9.6%avg +4.0%
- 2023+18.5%avg +23.0%
- 2024+13.7%avg +18.8%
- 2025+6.6%avg +6.8%
- 2026to 9 Nov−2.8%avg +2.2%
Calendar-year returns of the Direct-Growth plan. The average covers today’s aggressive hybrid funds that had a full year then.
3-year returns
3-year returns since 2013 ranged from −5.7% to 29.6% a year
- Lowest
- −5.7%
- to March 2020
- Middle
- +12.8%
- Highest
- +29.6%
- to March 2023
Every 3-year holding period ending on a NAV day from 1 January 2016 to 9 November 2026 (2,675 periods), annualised.
Worst fall
Worst fall: 33.6% (Jan 2018–Mar 2020), back at its high 8 months later
- High
- 24 Jan 2018
- Low
- 23 Mar 2020
- Back at the high
- 18 Nov 2020
- Now
- 3.3% below the 20 Nov 2025 high
Fall from the highest NAV to the lowest that followed, on daily direct plan NAVs since 1 January 2013.
Cost
The regular plan costs 0.59% a year more: about ₹1.46 lakh on ₹10 lakh over 10 years
₹10 lakh invested once and held 10 years, assuming 12% a year before costs (an assumption, not a forecast). Expense ratios as disclosed on 8 November 2026. Try your own numbers in the fee calculator.
Size and facts
₹22,246 crore of assets: the 3rd largest of 30 aggressive hybrid funds
- Former name
- HDFC Hybrid Equity Fund
- Average assets, July–September 2026
- ₹22,246 crore
- Fund house
- HDFC Mutual Fund
- Category
- Aggressive hybrid
Similar funds
Other aggressive hybrid funds of a similar size
- ICICI Prudential Aggressive Hybrid Fund3 years 13.85% a year · expense ratio 1.05%
- DSP Aggressive Hybrid Fund3 years 11.71% a year · expense ratio 0.79%
- Canara Robeco Aggressive Hybrid Fund3 years 12.32% a year · expense ratio 0.68%
- Mirae Asset Aggressive Hybrid Fund3 years 12.88% a year · expense ratio 0.63%
Every aggressive hybrid fund compared, from the category guide.
Questions people ask
Yes. HDFC Hybrid Equity Fund was renamed HDFC Aggressive Hybrid Fund; it is the same scheme, with the same NAV history and AMFI scheme code (119062). Fund houses have renamed many schemes so that the name matches the SEBI category.
₹127.6360 on 9 November 2026, as published by AMFI, up 0.60% from 6 November 2026. Fund houses publish a NAV for every business day. The regular plan and the IDCW options have NAVs of their own; the regular plan’s grows more slowly because its expense ratio is higher.
To 9 November 2026, the direct plan returned -1.86% over 1 year, 8.26% over 3 years, 8.19% over 5 years (a year, annualised beyond one year). These are AMFI NAV returns of the Direct-Growth plan; the regular plan’s are lower by roughly the difference in expense ratios. Past returns do not guarantee future returns.
Over 1 year it ranked 29th of 29, against a category average of 3.25%. Over 3 years it ranked 29th of 29, against a category average of 12.10%. Over 5 years it ranked 24th of 29, against a category average of 10.04%. Ranks compare the direct plans of the aggressive hybrid funds AMFI lists today, by return; they are not ratings.
As disclosed on 8 November 2026, the total expense ratio is 1.13% a year for the direct plan and 1.72% for the regular plan. The 0.59% gap is mostly the distributor’s commission. On ₹10 lakh held for 10 years at an assumed 12% a year before costs, the direct plan would end about ₹1.46 lakh ahead.
Its direct plan NAV fell 33.6% from its high on 24 January 2018 to 23 March 2020, and was back at that high on 18 November 2020. On 9 November 2026 it was 3.3% below its highest NAV, set on 20 November 2025.
Its average assets in July–September 2026 were ₹22,246 crore, across all plans, per AMFI: the 3rd largest of 30 aggressive hybrid funds.
That depends on your goals, how long you can stay invested and what else you hold, which this page cannot know. What the data shows: its returns against other aggressive hybrid funds, how far it has fallen, and what it costs. Its rank changes from year to year, so look at several periods rather than one, and at how a fall like its worst would feel for your money. This is education, not a recommendation to buy, sell or hold.
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This page is educational research based on AMFI data and Genvest’s own analysis. It is not a recommendation to invest in any scheme, or personalised investment advice. Mutual fund investments are subject to market risks; read all scheme related documents carefully. Past returns do not guarantee future returns. Registration granted by SEBI, enlistment with IAASB and certification from NISM in no way guarantee performance of the intermediary or provide any assurance of returns to investors.