How quant Large & Mid Cap Fund survived The 2015-16 China Slowdown
China devalued the yuan, crude collapsed, and global growth fears dragged the Sensex down 23% over 11 slow, grinding months. No single dramatic day — just a long test of patience that shook out momentum chasers.
The fall
-45.8%
27 May 2015 → 29 Feb 2016
Index fell
-23%
Sensex, peak to trough
Recovery time
Not yet
as of 4 Sept 2026
₹1L at the peak → today
₹2,93,753
worst-possible timing, held on
The full round trip
NAV from 2 Mar 2015 to 14 Sept 2017 — peak ₹42.2842, bottom ₹22.9111.
The ₹1 lakh stress test — invested at the worst possible moment
| Invested at the pre-crash peak (27 May 2015) | ₹1,00,000 |
| Value at the bottom (29 Feb 2016) | ₹54,184 |
| Value one year after the peak | ₹65,743 |
| Value today (4 Sept 2026) | ₹2,93,753 |
The lesson isn't that crashes don't hurt — it's that selling at the bottom turns a temporary fall into a permanent loss. The investor who bought at the absolute worst day and simply held is in profit today.
The unluckiest SIP experiment
Imagine starting a ₹10,000/month SIP on the exact peak day — the single unluckiest start date possible — and continuing for 24 months straight through the crash:
Invested
₹2,40,000
Worth today
₹10,55,225
Return
+340%
Crash-month installments bought units cheap — that's the whole SIP thesis, demonstrated with real data instead of a brochure.
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How this page is produced
Every figure above is computed from our archive of published AMFI NAV history for quant Large & Mid Cap Fund, to NAV dated 4 Sept 2026. Nothing here is copied from a factsheet or a third-party summary. The full method is published, including its limitations.
Written and maintained by Azad Mohammed, who built the pipeline these numbers come out of. Found an error? Tell us — corrections are made and the page rebuilds within the hour.
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