Global market volatility dents net inflows in equity mutual funds to drop by 22% in May: ICRA Analytics
equity mutual funds
were Rs 19,013.12 crore in May against Rs 24,269 crore in April. The net flow in equity-oriented funds witnessed MoM fall of 21.66% and a YoY decline of 45.20%, which can be attributed to the rising global volatility that has been worsened by geopolitical tensions stemming from India's Operation Sindoor against Pakistan and ongoing worries about global inflation.
Additionally, net inflow in Domestic
ETFs
(other than
Gold
ETFs) fell 78.55% MoM in May-25 after touching an all-time high of Rs. 19,057 crore in Apr-25, according to a release by ICRA Analytics.
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The
assets under management
(AUM) of the Indian mutual fund industry grew on a year-on-year basis by 22.55% in May 2025 to Rs 72.20 trillion.
AUM of open-ended growth/equity-oriented schemes witnessed the highest YoY growth of 26.21% in May-25, closely followed by other open-ended schemes (24.45%) and hybrid schemes (22.12%). Other schemes comprise
index funds
, ETFs and FoF investing overseas, according to data from the Association of
Mutual Funds
in India (AMFI).
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Under the equity category, AUM of sectoral/thematic funds witnessed the maximum YoY growth of 45.99%, followed by multi-cap funds, which grew 40.37%. In the debt space, the AUM of the long duration scheme category rose 53.15% YoY followed by the money market (44.49%) and ultra short duration (32.51%) categories.
Within the index funds and ETF space, the
Gold ETF
schemes grew 97.08% YoY in May-25 to Rs 62,453 crore, followed by a modest growth of 30.95% in index funds over the same period to Rs 3 lakh crore.
The number of folios grew YoY as on May 2025 by 28.15%. This growth can be attributed to other schemes for which folios over the year grew by 43.29% while that of equity schemes grew by 28.80%. Meanwhile, folio count for debt-oriented schemes witnessed a YoY uptick of 0.89%.
The total number of outstanding SIP accounts grew 3% over the year to 905.57 lakhs in May 2025 from 875.89 lakhs in the same period of the previous year. The number of contributing SIP accounts grew 30% from May 2025 to 856.00 lakhs in May 2025.
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SIP contribution over the year grew 28% to Rs. 26,688 crore in May 2025 from Rs 20,904 crore in the same period of the previous year. SIP AUM increased by 27% over the year in May 2025, while it grew by 5% over the month. SIP AUM as a % of month end AUM stood at 20.24% in May 2025 as compared to 19.57% in May 2024.
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