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MFs invest Rs 38,000 cr in debt market in April-May

According to experts, increased participation from retail investors is at work for the inflows in the debt market

Mutual funds pump in Rs 6,500-cr in stocks in Apr-May

Smaller towns have contributed more than 40% of inflows in equity schemes

Funds show mixed growth in new accounts

ICICI Pru, Birla Sun Life MF and Franklin see 20% in client base in FY16

Life becomes easier for SIP investors

Besides making on-boarding easier, features like swing STP and top-up SIP aim to optimise the benefit

Sebi tightens redemption rule for fund houses

Up to Rs 2 lakh to be allowed in any circumstance; some restriction in exceptional circumstances

Debt MFs' allocation to government papers hits 13-month low

Since the second half of FY16, fund managers cut exposure to G-Secs by over 350 basis points

MFs increase exposure in bank stocks on cheaper valuation

Fund managers had trimmed allocation to banking stocks between November and January, lowering exposure by over Rs 9,000 crore during the period due to higher bad loans

Equity MFs' AUM climbs 16% to Rs 3.57 lakh crore in April

The industry's equity assets under management (AUM) rose to Rs 3.57 lakh crore last month as against Rs 3.06 lakh crore in April last year, according to latest data available with AMFI

Will banking rally sustain?

Fresh NPA onslaught could come back to haunt banking funds; investors sitting pretty can book profits

MFs back in the saddle

So far this month, domestic funds have bought shares worth Rs 2,000 cr, while FIIs have bought Rs 1,343 cr

MF agents request Sebi to scrap commission disclosure rule

Several mutual funds' distributor associations said the circular on "commission disclosure is more likely to be counter productive on all counts and must be withdrawn."

Mutual funds folio count rises 4 lakh to 4.8 cr

This is on top of an addition of 59 lakh folios in 2015-16 and 22 lakh in 2014-15

Mutual Fund advisors take their problems to Jayant Sinha

Sinha assures them that Sebi will meet their delegation soon

Most large-cap funds give negative returns over 1 year

But outperform benchmark indices Sensex and Nifty

MFs big participants in recent IPOs

Have lapped up most shares as anchor investors in nearly all of the recent public issues

Equity account addition for funds at 17-month low

Compared to an average monthly equity folio addition of 360,000 in 2015-16, the first month of the current financial year 2016-17 has witnessed addition of just 158,000 accounts

Equity MF inflows hit 5-month high of Rs 4,438 crore in April

Equity schemes received funds to the tune of Rs 3,644 crore, Rs 2,914 crore and Rs 2,522 crore in December, January and February, respectively

Assets with MFs cross Rs 14 lakh cr at Apr-end

Inflows back in equity schemes

Mutual funds manage to keep 20-yr streak going

If a person invested Rs 1,000 per month as SIP for 20 years, these schemes would have turned the Rs 2.4 lakh into Rs 55 lakh

PaySlips at mutual funds

Capital market regulator Sebi has mandated all mutual fund houses to disclose salaries of their top officials