Corporate debt Scheme (C)
Invests in high-quality corporate bonds and money-market instruments. Steadier, accrual-style returns with moderate interest-rate sensitivity. A middle ground between equity growth and government-securities safety.
About the corporate debt scheme
Scheme C lends to companies — high-rated corporate bonds, debentures and money-market instruments — earning steady interest. Returns are more predictable than equity and usually higher than government debt, for a little more credit risk. It is the balanced middle of the NPS spectrum.
What it holds
High-quality corporate bonds, debentures and money-market papers, mostly top-rated issuers and PSUs; income comes from the interest they pay.
Return & risk
Moderate risk and return. It moves with interest rates and credit quality — far steadier than equity, with an edge over pure government debt.
Where it fits
The stabiliser: pairing it with Equity cushions the swings while still earning more than a plain government-bond allocation.
Return for the volatility taken
Each dot is a Pension Fund Manager, plotted by return against risk for the chosen period. The dashed lines mark the peer average — the top-left quadrant (more return, less risk) is the sweet spot.
Risk is the annualised standard deviation of returns; higher means larger swings. Return is the annualised (CAGR) figure over the same window, from the NPS master data. Managers without enough history for the chosen period appear in the XIRR table but may not plot here.
What a monthly SIP would have earned
Both the SIP outcome and its XIRR in one view: pick a monthly instalment and a start–end window, and the chart ranks every Pension Fund Manager by the SIP’s XIRR — the money-weighted annual return, closer to a regular investor’s experience than point-to-point CAGR. Each bar is sized to the projected corpus your SIP would grow to, so you can see how the funds compare at a glance; the rupee value sits beside each bar and the highlighted chip on the right reports each fund’s XIRR.
Method: a fixed instalment is invested at the first available NAV each month from the start to the end month; units accumulate and are valued at the end-month NAV. XIRR is the money-weighted annual return of those dated cashflows (independent of the instalment size). Funds whose NAV history starts after the chosen start month are excluded for that window. Monthly NAVs from the NPS master data; past performance does not guarantee future results.