With FY26 wrapped up and Q1 FY27 well underway, the category-level performance table tells a story of concentrated winners and a bumpy year for the crowd favourites. For an industry that has spent much of the past four years explaining how “average” equity fund returns look, FY26 was the year of dispersion. Category-level performance data … Read more
Positioned between mutual funds and PMS, the SIF category is being pitched to India’s growing affluent investor base. The Rs 10 lakh minimum is both its filter and its challenge. When SEBI cleared the Specialised Investment Fund framework in 2025, the industry response was cautious. Fund houses welcomed the intent — a regulated, transparent middle … Read more
With RBI holding the repo rate steady, geopolitics injecting inflation risk, and equity volatility unsettling portfolios, fixed income is being reassessed segment by segment. Debt mutual funds spent much of the last three years being described by advisors as the boring cousin of the equity family. In FY27’s opening weeks, the description is beginning to … Read more
A close look at NFOs launched in 2026 shows fund houses are rethinking product strategy under a combination of regulatory pressure, investor scepticism, and a shifting equity backdrop. For much of 2023 and 2024, the Indian mutual fund NFO pipeline had one dominant flavour. Thematic and sectoral funds — defence, manufacturing, PSU, tourism, consumption, healthcare … Read more
Gold ETFs delivered strong double-digit returns while equity funds struggled through a volatile FY26. The comparison is real — but the takeaway is not what most investors think. For most of the past decade, the standard advice in Indian personal finance conversations has been to keep gold as a modest, boring diversifier and let equity … Read more
A ground-level look at the categories being launched across Indian AMCs this quarter, and what the composition of the pipeline says about the industry’s direction. For an industry that had built its launch calendar around a steady flow of thematic and sectoral equity schemes, 2026 has been a year of quiet reinvention. The overall … Read more
For a cohort that started investing in the euphoric years after 2020, the last eighteen months have been an unfamiliar experience. The data suggests some are learning; others are pausing. For a generation of first-time investors who opened their first mutual fund account somewhere between mid-2020 and early 2024, investing had looked deceptively simple. Start … Read more
Passive AUM has grown at nearly twice the pace of active equity funds over the last three years. Under SEBI’s new expense regime, the gap could widen further. A structural shift is underway in Indian mutual funds. Large-cap active managers have found it increasingly difficult to beat the benchmark, and retail investors are voting with … Read more
Retail AUM has crossed Rs 47 lakh crore and the folio count is growing at 15 per cent year-on-year. The engine behind the numbers is not the old metro-male investor. It is a quieter, broader base finally showing up. The headline numbers from AMFI’s February release are impressive on their own. Retail mutual fund folios … Read more