How Bandhan Value Fund survived The 2022 Rate-Hike Correction
Inflation surged after the pandemic, the US Fed hiked at the fastest pace in 40 years, and FIIs sold Indian equities for 9 straight months. A slow-bleed correction that punished the frothiest corners of the 2021 bull run.
The fall
-19%
14 Jan 2022 → 20 Jun 2022
Index fell
-17%
Sensex, peak to trough
Recovery time
5 mo
peak regained 1 Dec 2022
₹1L at the peak → today
₹1,56,030
worst-possible timing, held on
The full round trip
NAV from 1 Oct 2021 to 1 Dec 2022 — peak ₹94.85, bottom ₹76.8, peak regained 1 Dec 2022.
The ₹1 lakh stress test — invested at the worst possible moment
| Invested at the pre-crash peak (14 Jan 2022) | ₹1,00,000 |
| Value at the bottom (20 Jun 2022) | ₹80,970 |
| Value one year after the peak | ₹98,392 |
| Value today (1 Sept 2026) | ₹1,56,030 |
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
₹3,73,540
Return
+56%
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 Bandhan Value Fund, to NAV dated 1 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.
This page describes what each fund has done. It is not investment advice and not a recommendation to buy or sell any scheme. Arthkar is not a SEBI-registered investment adviser and does not provide or arrange investment advice. Mutual fund investments are subject to market risk; read all scheme related documents carefully.
