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Money Market funds: yield and credit quality

What every money market fund's bonds yield, how much rates move it, and how its money is rated, from August 2026 portfolios.

These figures are from August 2026 portfolios.

Fund houses have published newer portfolios since, which are not yet in our data, so yields, duration and ratings may have changed. Check the fund's latest factsheet before investing.

Average yield to maturity

6.88%

6.43% after costs

Average modified duration

0.38 yrs

about −0.4% if rates rise 1%

Highest yield after costs

6.96%

LIC MF Money Market Fund

Average credit quality

97%

Sovereign or AAA

Regular plan, Growth option. Yield and ratings are the portfolio's; the plan changes only the expense ratio.

SovereignAAA / A1+AAA and belowUnratedCash and other
FundCredit qualityshare of the fund
Category average6.88%6.43%0.38 yrs0.38 yrs0.3%
7.34%6.96%0.41 yrs0.41 yrs0.3%
₹3,979 Cr
7.31%6.89%0.50 yrs0.54 yrs0.3%
₹2,452 Cr
6.98%6.74%0.38 yrs0.38 yrs0.4%
₹16,039 Cr
6.95%6.65%0.26 yrs0.36 yrs0.3%
₹3,887 Cr
7.06%6.65%0.39 yrs0.42 yrs0.3%
₹27,624 Cr
6.95%6.60%0.35 yrs0.37 yrs0.3%
₹19,012 Cr
6.97%6.60%0.36 yrs0.36 yrs0.3%
₹27,513 Cr
6.93%6.60%0.34 yrs0.36 yrs0.3%
₹31,010 Cr
6.95%6.55%0.41 yrs0.41 yrs0.4%
₹3,393 Cr
6.91%6.54%0.43 yrs0.43 yrs0.3%
₹26,943 Cr
6.90%6.52%0.30 yrs0.30 yrs0.4%
₹1,338 Cr
6.86%6.51%0.54 yrs0.58 yrs0.2%
₹4,664 Cr
6.89%6.50%0.44 yrs0.47 yrs0.3%
₹19,855 Cr
6.83%6.48%0.45 yrs0.46 yrs0.2%
₹6,382 Cr
6.87%6.47%0.46 yrs0.00 yrs0.3%
₹8,072 Cr
6.79%6.44%0.36 yrs0.36 yrs0.3%
₹13,129 Cr
6.83%6.40%0.36 yrs0.36 yrs0.3%
₹5,481 Cr
6.73%6.38%0.34 yrs0.36 yrs0.3%
₹78.22 Cr
6.74%6.34%0.41 yrs0.42 yrs0.3%
₹31,690 Cr
6.67%6.27%0.40 yrs0.42 yrs0.7%
₹123 Cr
6.80%6.26%0.47 yrs0.47 yrs0.3%
₹410 Cr
6.91%6.24%0.37 yrs0.37 yrs0.3%
₹2,065 Cr
7.01%6.20%0.38 yrs0.41 yrs0.2%
₹1,120 Cr
6.56%6.11%0.31 yrs0.31 yrs0.2%
₹248 Cr
6.72%6.09%0.38 yrs0.42 yrs0.3%
₹27,850 Cr
6.76%5.98%0.37 yrs0.39 yrs0.4%
₹3,973 Cr
6.42%5.56%0.22 yrs0.22 yrs0.2%
₹78.52 Cr

27 funds. Red in Below AAA: 10% or more rated A or lower, or unrated. Hover a credit bar for the split. Click a heading to sort.

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What is the yield to maturity of a money market fund?

The yearly return the fund's bonds would earn if each were held to maturity at today's prices and paid in full. Take away the expense ratio for a rough guide to what an investor keeps if interest rates stay where they are. It is not a promised return: rates change, and so do the bonds the fund holds.

What does modified duration tell me?

How much the NAV moves when interest rates move. A fund with a modified duration of 4 years would fall about 4% if rates rose by 1%, and gain about 4% if they fell by 1%. Overnight and liquid funds sit near zero; gilt and long duration funds can be 7 to 10.

How is credit quality grouped?

From the ratings in each fund's latest portfolio: Sovereign (government securities and T-bills), AAA and A1+ (the highest long and short-term ratings), AA (including short-term A1), A and below, and unrated. What the ratings do not cover, such as cash and REITs, is shown as Cash and other.

How current are these figures?

They come from each fund's portfolio disclosure as received from our data provider, and the page names the month. Yield, duration and ratings only change when a fund house publishes a new portfolio, so they are not daily figures. When a newer disclosure should already be out and is not yet in our data, the page says so.

Is a higher yield better?

A higher yield is usually paid for with lower-rated bonds or longer duration. Read it beside the Below AAA share and the duration: two funds with the same yield can carry very different risks.

Portfolio figures from our data provider, PulseLabs, as disclosed by each fund house. Yield to maturity is not a guaranteed return. Past performance does not indicate future returns.