ET Intelligence Group: The share of assets under management (AUM) by midcap funds has surpassed that of large-cap funds by 0.6 percentage point, the most on record, as per data from the Association of Mutual Funds in India. Midcap funds constitute 12.9% of the total equity AUM, compared with 12.3% for their large-cap peers. Now, … Read more
Gold ETFs saw an inflow for the second consecutive month in June of Rs 726.16 crore, according to the monthly data released by AMFI. The category saw an inflow of Rs 827.43 crore in May and an outflow of Rs 395.69 crore in April. In the first six months of 2024, the category received a … Read more
New Delhi: Gold exchange traded fund (ETF) witnessed a net outflow of ₹396 crore last month, making it the first withdrawal after March 2023, owing to profit booking. Despite the decline, the asset under management (AUM) of gold funds rose 5% to ₹32,789 crore at April-end from ₹31,224 crore in the preceding month, according to … Read more
Anthony Heredia, Managing Director and CEO, Mahindra Manulife, says “for the last two or three months, there has been a clear shift away from small and midcaps being the flavour of the month to perhaps flexi and multi-cap funds being the more relevant product. But what I am also seeing increasingly is a huge interest … Read more
Retirement is that golden phase of a person’s life where he or she doesn’t have to work for money. They have lesser responsibilities, more time and freedom. This phase of a person’s life can be a beautiful new adventure provided they are financially secured and ready for this transition. Let’s look at our preparedness for … Read more
Mumbai: India’s capital markets regulator has ordered local mutual fund managers to stop accepting money in plans that invest in overseas exchange traded funds (ETFs) as a $1-billion cumulative sectoral limit for such investments is close to being breached. The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) regulates the fund inflows and outflows involving locally pooled investments … Read more
Sanjay Shah, CMD, Prudent Corporate Advisory Services, says coming to the question about the impact of a switch on the trail or the remuneration which overall investors are getting, understand that there is no change as far as TR or expense ratio is concerned because otherwise also, the AMC used to pay trail to old … Read more
ET Intelligence Group: The systematic investment plan (SIP) route continues to attract new retail investors amid soaring equity benchmark indices with no signs of exasperation. New SIP accounts opened in February were 2.3 times more than the ones that were closed according to the data from the Association of Mutual Funds in India (AMFI). The … Read more
Small-cap funds received a quarter of the total inflows into equity mutual funds in 2023, compared with just 2.5% in 2021. The average inflows into small-cap funds doubled on year to ₹3,419 crore in 2023. Synopsis In December, small-cap funds added more than 935,000 folios, or accounts, data from the Association of Mutual Fund of … Read more
Mumbai: The Association of Mutual Funds in India (AMFI)’s small-cap stock classification formula is likely to face challenges in the upcoming semi-annual reclassification, especially given the significant uptick in stock prices and the listing of new companies. The market capitalisation of stocks in the small-cap category, as per the existing formula, surpasses $3 billion (₹25,000 … Read more
