Lending for four to seven years. Debt with a portfolio duration of four to seven years. Called Medium to Long Duration until SEBI renamed the debt categories in 2026.
Ranked by three-year return; funds without that figure at the end
Ranked by three-year return, the top three are LIC MF Medium to Long Term Fund (+6.5% a year), ICICI Prudential Medium to Long Term Fund (+6.3% a year) and HDFC Medium to Long Term Fund (+6.0% a year). Past returns do not tell you future returns.
| +3.4% | +6.5% | +5.5% | 1/12 | 0.62% | ₹172 cr | |
ICICI Prudential Medium to Long Term Fund ICICI Prudential | +2.9% | +6.3% | +5.7% | 2/12 | 1.00% | ₹1,986 cr |
| +2.4% | +6.0% | +4.7% | 3/12 | 1.36% | ₹802 cr | |
| +4.5% | +6.0% | +4.6% | 4/12 | 1.94% | ₹426 cr | |
| +2.8% | +5.9% | +5.4% | 5/12 | 1.48% | ₹2,003 cr | |
| +2.3% | +5.9% | +6.5% | 6/12 | 1.64% | ₹301 cr | |
JM Medium to Long Term Fund JM Financial | +1.7% | +5.8% | +4.7% | 7/12 | — | ₹29 cr |
Kotak Medium to Long Term Fund Kotak Mahindra | +2.4% | +5.8% | +4.9% | 8/12 | 1.65% | ₹1,743 cr |
Nippon India Medium to Long Term Fund Nippon India | +2.8% | +5.7% | +5.0% | 9/12 | 1.44% | ₹299 cr |
| +2.4% | +5.6% | +4.3% | 10/12 | 1.30% | ₹48 cr | |
Aditya Birla Sun Life Medium to Long Term Fund Aditya Birla Sun Life | +1.7% | +5.5% | +4.9% | 11/12 | 1.13% | ₹1,717 cr |
Canara Robeco Medium To Long Term Fund Canara Robeco | +1.7% | +5.0% | +4.2% | 12/12 | 1.84% | ₹112 cr |
Franklin India Medium to Long Term Fund Franklin Templeton | +2.9% | — | — | — | 0.85% | ₹40 cr |
Answered from the figures above, updated every business day
13 funds, managing ₹9,676 cr between them as of 3 Nov 2026. The largest is SBI Medium to Long Term Fund, at ₹2,003 cr.
The average Medium to Long Term fund returned +2.6% over the last year, +5.8% a year over three years, +5.0% a year over five years. Over the last year the funds ranged from +1.7% to +4.5%. Past returns do not tell you future returns.
LIC MF Medium to Long Term Fund, at 0.62% a year, against 1.40% for the average fund in the category. The expense ratio is taken out of the fund every day, so every return shown is already after it.
LIC MF Medium to Long Term Fund, at +6.5% a year over the last three years, against +5.8% for the average fund. Past returns do not tell you future returns.
Their volatility over the last year averaged 2.2%: the higher it is, the more the price swings from day to day. 11 of 13 carry the riskometer level Moderate, on SEBI's six-step scale from Low to Very High.
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NAV, expense ratio and fund disclosures as published by AMFI and the fund houses; prices as of 3 Nov 2026. Figures are computed independently and may differ from a fund house's own factsheet.
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