Fairness MF inflows sink to an 11-month low amid volatility

Web inflows into fairness mutual fund schemes in March declined 14.4% to ₹25,082 crore, amid international market shocks, information from the Affiliation of Mutual Funds in India (AMFI) confirmed.

The inflows have been declining for 3 consecutive months and was within the damaging for half of fiscal yr 2024-25.

To a question on slowing fairness inflows, AMFI’s chief govt Venkat Chalasani mentioned, “Inflows have undoubtedly come down barely… from ₹29,303 crore through the month of February to ₹25,082 crore in March.”

“Redeeming characteristic is that there’s optimistic progress throughout all of the schemes, besides in respect of sectoral and thematic funds, the place you’ve got witnessed a marginal damaging money circulate of ₹170 crore,” Mr. Chalasani mentioned at a media briefing. A notable decline in inflows was observed in sectoral and thematic mutual funds, the place internet inflows fell 97% to ₹170 crore in March.

This was the steepest decline since June 2023.

The variety of contributing SIP accounts diminished to eight.11 crore in March from 8.26 crore within the earlier month. The variety of contributing SIP accounts have been lowering for the previous three months. SIP contributions additionally diminished to ₹25,926 crore in March from about ₹26,000 crore in February.