HDFC Medium Term Opportunities Fund: Conservative on risk, high on returns

Systematic investment plan is a disciplined mode of regular investments offered by mutual funds to investors

Launched in June 2010, HDFC Medium Term Opportunities Fund features in the debt short fund category of CRISIL Mutual Fund Ranking. The fund has been constantly ranked in the top 30 percentile (CRISIL Fund Rank 1 or 2) in the 12 quarters ended December 2017. Its month-end assets under management (AUM) more than tripled from Rs 34.12 billion in April 2015 to Rs 114.33 billion in March 2018.

Anupam Joshi has been managing the fund since October 2015. The investment objective of the fund is to generate regular income through investments in debt/money market Instruments and government securities (G-secs) with