ETFs and Index Funds drove a 7.4% q-q surge in passive AUM while equity AUM shrank, says Nomura. Nippon and HDFC are leaning hardest into the shift — a structural read every investor should clock. While market headlines fixate on Flexi Cap and Small Cap flows, a quieter structural shift is reshaping India’s mutual fund … Read more
SIPs Hit Record Highs Even as Market Losses Drag Down AMC Profits India’s mutual fund industry demonstrated remarkable resilience in the March 2026 quarter, with systematic investment plan (SIP) flows surging to record highs even as a brutal market correction hammered asset management companies’ bottom lines. A fresh results preview by Nomura paints a picture … Read more
ICICI Prudential AMC and Nippon Life are pulling flow share well ahead of their AUM footprint, while SBI and UTI cede ground — Nomura’s March preview offers a clear scorecard on which listed asset managers are accreting future earnings power For investors tracking India’s listed asset managers, March 2026 flow data flagged a clear winner … Read more
GST cuts, record gold prices and a steel-price rebound are pulling autos, banks, metals and retail back into growth. But IDBI Capital and Anand Rathi both flag the same catch — a Gulf conflict whose hit to input costs, freight and currency lands mostly next quarter. Growth, it seems, is coming back. IDBI Capital framed … Read more
March 2026 mutual fund inflows see flexi-caps funds as the talk of the town March 2026 mutual fund flow data offers retail investors a useful tell on where conviction is building — and which categories are winning new money. Nomura’s April 5 preview pegs industry net equity inflows at ₹43,600 crore, up 16% month-on-month, with … Read more
SIP contributions hit a record high, passive AUM crosses Rs 15 trillion and retail investors stay put through the worst equity correction in years. Antique Stock Broking says the industry’s structural growth story is intact. India’s mutual fund industry has done held together while everything around it has not. Equity markets are down over 13% … Read more
Aditya Birla Sun Life AMC Limited, a subsidiary of Aditya Birla Capital Limited, and investment manager to Aditya Birla Sun Life Mutual Fund (“ABSLMF”), has launched the Aditya Birla Sun Life Retirement Fund. It is an open- ended retirement solution oriented scheme for investors. The fund has a lock-in period of minimum five years or … Read more
The Security Exchange Board of India (SEBI) have permitted mutual funds and portfolio services (PMS) for trading at commodity market. The board be meeting in the second week of March. SEBI has already made provisions for its entry as a new participant. It is reported that SEBI has tweaked its regulations so that warehouse receipts … Read more
The Additional Offering Period (AOP) of ICICI Prudential Mutual Fund managed BHARAT 22 ETF has just been announced. This AOP is a part of the Government of India’s disinvestment initiative announced earlier by the Department of Investment and Public Asset Management (DIPAM), Ministry of Finance, using the ETF route. ICICI Prudential AMC proposes to raise … Read more
You can now keep all your investment woes aside. ICICI Securities Limited (I-Sec) has announced that it will be using the path breaking Unified Payment Interface (UPI) system as its new payment mode. This mode will enable quicker and more efficient investing. The UPI service will open up new payment avenues as well as previous … Read more