Equity MFs Performance and Activities – October, 2021

November 14, 2021

Equity mutual funds received net inflows of ₹ 5215 crore for the eighth consecutive month in October. Since March, equity funds logged  net inflows amounting to ₹ 73,766 crore. All equity categories except Value Funds and ELSS had net inflows in October.

As per MFs activities in stocks, IRCTC witnessed major sell off from 51 Equity MF Schemes in October month. Out of 51 schemes, 35 schemes fully sold off their IRCTC stake. Some equity schemes completely exited from HDFC life, Petronet LNG, IGL, Cipla, TCS, HUL, AIA Engineering and Tata Power.

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

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

Mutual Fund Flows – October 2021

November 12, 2021

Average Assets Under Management (AAUM) of Indian Mutual Fund Industry for the month of October 2021 stood at INR 38.21 Lakh Crs up 2.17% compared to the earlier month.

Equity Oriented Schemes witnessed inflows of INR 5.21k Crs in October. Sectoral/Thematic funds saw the highest inflow of INR 1,734 Crs.

Dynamic/Balance Advantage funds witnessed INR 11.2K Crs inflow whereas Arbitrage Funds saw outflows of INR 2.3K Crs due to low returns.

SIP inflows increased to record high of INR 10,518 Crs in October.

Debt Funds saw inflow of INR 12K Cr compared to INR 63K Cr outflow in September. Overnight funds followed by Floaters saw the biggest inflows in the debt category.

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

Debt Index Funds

October 15, 2021

Do you have Debt Index funds in your portfolio? Are you comparing the debt index funds to choose which one to invest in? It’s interesting to see how different maturities on the yield curve with different combinations of debt products are being chosen by fund managers to help you grab good investment opportunities. Do go through our explainer on debt index funds to get a better picture of this product.

Equity MFs Performance and Activities – Sept, 2021

October 14, 2021
  • Equity mutual funds received net inflows of ₹ 8677 crore in September. Overall most of equity mutual schemes underperformed compared to benchmark indices.
  • Overall considering all equity mutual fund schemes, there was selloff in Bharti Airtel, SBI, Sun Pharma, Bajaj Finance, Tata Steel, IRCTC and Hindalco.  There was buying in HDFC Bank, Infosys, Reliance, ICICI Bank, Axis Bank, Kotak Bank, HCL Technologies and ITC.
  • It is very interesting to know which schemes received major inflows, which schemes faced redemption pressure and fresh stock picks during September month.

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

MF Flows – September 2021

October 11, 2021
  • Average Assets Under Management (AAUM) of Indian Mutual Fund Industry for the month of September 2021 stood at INR 37.41 lakh crs up 3.64% compared to the earlier month.
  • Equity Oriented Schemes witnessed inflows of INR 8.67k Crs in September. Multicap funds saw the biggest inflow at INR 3,569 crs.
  • Dynamic/Balance Advantage funds witnessed INR 5.2K crs inflow whereas Arbitrage Funds saw outflows of INR 3K Crs due to low returns
  • SIP inflows increased to record high of INR 10,351 Crs in September.
  • Debt Funds saw outflow of INR 64k Cr compared to INR 1k Cr inflow in August which could be largely due to Quarter end requirements. Overnight funds followed by Floaters saw the biggest inflows in the debt category.
  • SBI Mutual Fund continued to enjoy the top slot for the 7th consecutive quarter. However, HDFC leads SBI in terms of total Debt AAUM for the quarter.

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

Mutual Fund Flows – August 2021

September 12, 2021

The Average AUM of the Mutual Fund Industry increased by 2.70% in August over July 2021.

Equity oriented schemes saw a net inflow of INR 8,667 crs during the month while Hybrid schemes witnessed a net inflow of INR 18,706 crs.

SBI Balanced  Advantage  Fund  became the highest grossing equity NFOs till date, notching up INR 13,000 crs.

Debt Mutual Fund schemes saw net inflows worth INR 1,074 crs as compared to INR 73,694 crs in July.

Floater Funds attracted the largest chunk of investment followed by Corporate Bond funds. 

Overnight and Low Duration funds saw big withdrawals.

Mutual Fund Flows – July 2021

August 10, 2021

Equity Mutual Funds logged one of their best monthly inflows in July, buoyed by the success of New Fund Offerings (NFO’s) launched to tap positive investor sentiment towards the equity markets.

ICICI Prudential Flexicap Fund garnered ₹9,808 crore, touted to be the highest ever inflows in such funds. As a category, flexi-cap funds saw a net inflow of ₹11,508 crores in July, showed Amfi data.

Inflows into Arbitrage funds witnessed a sharp increase at ₹14,924 crore, from the ₹9,060 crore that came in June 2021

In the Debt category, the biggest inflows came from liquid funds and money market funds.

Credit-risk funds saw a net inflow for the third straight month in July.

For all this and much more, please go through our Report: “Mutual Fund Flows-July 2021

Knowledge Series: Yield Curve Part 2

August 6, 2021

In Part 1 of Yield Curve we discussed the possibilities of yield curve movements due to various economic factors. By actively studying the current macro and micro economic situation fund managers speculate future movement of the yield curve and strategise their investments. Here are some of the commonly used strategies in the Indian mutual fund industry.

Mutual Fund Flows – June 2021

July 9, 2021

Average Assets Under Management (AAUM) of Indian Mutual Fund Industry for the month of June 2021 stood at ₹ 34.10 lakhs crs, an increase of around 3.3%.

Equity funds witnessed inflows of INR 5.98k crores. Arbitrage Funds, Balanced Advantage Funds and ETFs were the biggest gainers.

Debt Funds saw inflows of INR 3.5k Crs with flows largely into Floater and Low Duration Funds. Money Market and Ultra Short Funds were the big losers here.

SBI AMC continued its reign over the top spot both in terms of Average AUM and absolute increase in AUM over the quarter.

Mutual Funds Flows – April 2021

May 13, 2021

Despite a surge in COVID-19 cases, Equity oriented schemes saw net inflows of ₹ 3,437 crore in April as against ₹ 9,115 crore in March. 

Sectoral and thematic funds saw the largest net inflow under the equity category.

ETFs and Fund of funds investing overseas were the flavour of the month.

Arbitrage funds were the biggest gainers among the Hybrid category of schemes.

High liquidity in the financial markets led to large inflows in liquid and overnight funds. Money market funds also saw good flows. 

For this and much more please read through our note.