Equity MFs Performance and Activities – August, 2022

September 16, 2022

Equity mutual funds received inflows of ₹ 6,120 crore in August. This is the lowest inflow of equity funds in the last 10 months.

Many Equity mutual fund schemes preferred to do fresh investment in Sona BLW Precision Forgings (6.2% stake), AU Small Finance Bank(1.5% stake), Rolex Rings (6.6% stake), HDFC AMC, Kotak Mahindra Bank, Tata Power, Ambuja Cements(1.5% stake) and Zomato.

Some equity schemes completely exited from HCL Technologies, NMDC, HDFC Life, Piramal Enterprises, Voltas, UPL, Muthoot Finance, Bharti Airtel, TCS and GAIL.

Banking, Power, Media & Entertainment, Chemicals, Automobile and Retailing were preferred investment sectors of Equity MF Schemes.

Some MF schemes exited their investments from Telecom, Insurance, .Oil & Gas, Mining, Iron & Steel and Agri.

Most of Equity mutual fund schemes underperformed compared with benchmark indices.

It is very interesting to know which schemes received major inflows, which schemes faced redemption pressure, top traded stocks and fresh stock picks by AMCs during August month.

For all these snippets and much more please read through our report.

Mutual Fund Flows – August 2022

September 16, 2022

The data released by AMFI for August 2022 month shows that Mutual Fund industry‘s Avg. AUM increased by 4.67% mainly driven by robust demand in the debt market.

Equity oriented schemes witnessed inflow for the 18th consecutive months.

The Hybrid schemes witnessed a net outflow of ₹6.6K Crs primarily from the Arbitrage fund category.

Average AUM of Debt Funds in August increased by 0.49% to ₹13.40 Lakh Crs and Liquid funds saw the highest net inflows of ₹50.09K Crs.

The SIP flows has increased to ₹12,693 Crs in August, compared to ₹12,139 in July.

For all these snippets and much more please read through our Mutual Fund Flow August-2022 report.