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Source: Live Mint Mutual funds have increasingly become extremely popular among retail investors for wealth creation. The latest data revealed by the Association of Mutual Funds in India (AMFI) shows that total assets held by individual investors rose by over 30 percent in just one year. Individual investors held ₹41.43 lakh crore in mutual funds…
Source: Live Mint Speaking at an event in Mumbai, the regulator drew from her statement of March 2024 where she had warned investors about the potential bubbles in the small and mid-cap segments, and stressed that it might not be appropriate to allow froth to keep building up. She had asked mutual funds to frame…
Source: Live Mint Inflows into equity mutual fund inflows witnessed a marginal decline of 3.6 per cent in January, totaling ₹39,687 crore against ₹41,155 crore in December, showed the data released by the Association of Mutual Funds in India (AMFI) on February 12. Despite the slight decrease in monthly inflows, net investments into open-ended equity…
Source: Live Mint How would you know whether a small cap mutual fund is safe to invest in terms of future volatility? Among several metrics, you may also consider the results of ‘stress test’ which each mutual fund is supposed to reveal every month. A small cap mutual fund invests a minimum of 65 percent…
Source: Live Mint While the stock market is extremely volatile, some conservative investors are contemplating investing in mutual funds, thereby outsourcing their investing decisions to the experts. If you are also one of them, it is important to remember that one of the safest mutual fund categories, among equity, is large-cap funds. Although the average…
Source: Live Mint If you are planning to invest in a mutual fund scheme, it is quite usual to evaluate the past returns of that scheme and compare the same with its rivals in the same category. Although past returns do not guarantee the future returns, they, however, give a sense of the scheme’s potential…
Source: Live Mint Investing in a mutual fund consistently can yield good returns. In fact, consistency is the key to investment and wealth generation. An investment made over a long period of time gives the benefit of compounded returns. Compounding is so potent that it is sometimes referred to as magic. This is how it works: when…
Source: Live Mint In the calendar year 2024, mutual fund investors’ investment through the SIP (systematic investment plans) route touched ₹2,89,227 crore with the highest contribution of ₹26,459 crore in December. Interestingly, December also happened to be the 46th month of positive equity inflows with the first one in March 2021. The mutual fund industry’s…
Source: Live Mint Mutual Fund folios hit at all-time high of 22,50,03,545 in December 2024, revealed the latest data released on Thursday by the Association of Mutual Funds in India (AMFI). Retail mutual fund folios (which include equity, hybrid, and solution-oriented Schemes) were at an all-time high of 17,89,93,911 for the month of December 2024,…
Source: Live Mint Ahead of Budget 2025, the Association of Mutual Funds in India (AMFI) has made a set of demands to favour the mutual fund industry. One key demand is to restore indexation benefits for debt mutual funds. Most of the other key expectations include addressing tax-related concerns. The mutual fund houses (represented through…
