Mutual funds see steady inflow after AUM crossed Rs 50 lakh crore in FY24, March folios surge 22%
In FY24, the mutual fund industry surpassed the Rs 50 lakh crore mark in assets under management. The net AUM of the industry grew by 35.5% to Rs 53.4 lakh crore in FY24.
The net inflow in the mutual fund industry reached Rs 3.55 lakh crore, an increase of 4.6 times compared to Rs 76,225 crore in the previous year.
Also, in the three main categories of schemes, the hybrid category saw net flows increasing by 9.7 times to Rs.1.45 lakh crore, compared to the outflow of Rs.18,813 crore which it reported in FY23.
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The total number of folios increased by almost 22% to 17.79 lakh crore in March 2024 from 14.57 lakh crore in the same period a year ago.
The bigger picture here is that the total number of folios in the mutual fund industry surged almost twice compared to five years back due to increased interest and awareness among retail investors. It was 8.97 lakh crore in March 2020.
A folio is a unique identification number for your account mutual fund account. Just like a bank account number is unique for every investor similarly folio number also differs for every investor through which fund investors can be identified.
Also, retail investors are more aware about bonds now than earlier and are investing in them through the mutual fund route. The interesting part is that retail investors’ folio number outpaces everyone from the total number of folios.
Further, the increase in folio numbers could attributed to the opening up of branches of asset management companies beyond the top 30 towns, ICRA Analytics said.
The retail investors’ folio at 15.06 lakh crore accounted for 91.3% of the total folio of 16.49 lakh crore in the mutual industry as of December 2023. It is to be noted that an investor may have multiple accounts or folios in a single fund or across funds. This is therefore not a count of the number of investors, but the number of accounts.