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A rally in India’s sovereign bonds, fueled by mutual funds and overseas investors has left most Mumbai traders baffled at their sudden fortune. Yields dropped across the curve last week, with those on the benchmark 10-year bond declining ten basis points, the biggest weekly drop since April. Government debt auctions are finding buyers again, after a spate of earlier sales were canceled or rescued by underwriters. A rally in India’s sovereign bonds, fueled by mutual funds and overseas investors after weeks of indifference, has left most Mumbai traders baffled at their sudden fortune. Mutual funds turned net buyers with purchases of 151 billion rupees ($2.1 billion) of debt over the last 10 trading days. Read more

Equity mutual funds witnessed a net inflow of over Rs 10,000 crore in May, making it the third consecutive monthly infusion. This is a 14-month high i.e. highest since March 2020. This was way higher than Rs 3,437 crore net inflow seen in April and Rs 9,115 crore in March Prior to this, equity schemes had consistently witnessed outflow for eight straight months from July 2020 to February 2021. On the other hand, investors pulled out Rs 44,512 crore from debt mutual funds last month after infusing over Rs 1 lakh crore in April. Overall, the mutual fund industry witnessed an outflow of Rs 38,602 across all segments during the period under review, compared to an inflow of Rs 92,906 crore in April. As per the data, inflow from equity and equity-linked open-ended schemes was at Rs 10,083 crore in May. Read more

In February Equity mutual funds witnessed an outflow of Rs 10,468 crore making it the eighth consecutive monthly withdrawal. The Flexi cap category accounted for most of the outflow. Overall, the mutual fund industry witnessed a net outflow of Rs 1,843 crore across all segments during the period under review, compared to Rs 35,586 crore in January. Despite the outflow, asset under management (AUM) of the mutual fund industry rose to Rs 31.64lakh crore in February-end from Rs 30.5 lakh crore in January-end. As per the data, the outflow from equity and equity-linked open-ended schemes was at Rs 10,468 crore in February compared to Rs 9,253 crore in January. Barring multi-cap, large & mid-cap and focussed fund categories, all the equity schemes have seen outflow last month. The newly created Flexi cap category saw a maximum outflow of Rs 10,431 crore. Read more

Despite a strong rally in the market, investors have pulled out money from mutual funds for the seventh straight month in January. According to the recent data by the Association of Mutual Funds in India (Amfi), equity mutual funds have witnessed net outflows of Rs 9,253 crore last month, taking the total outflows to Rs 42,200 crore since July. While the pace of outflows has peaked since November, when investors had redeemed investments worth Rs 12,917 crore, the phenomenon continues on Dalal Street. This is when BSE barometer Sensex has rallied 32 percent between July 2020 and January 2021. Some might argue that a sharp rally in the markets is what has persuaded investors to take money off the table and re-enter at a more opportune time, but analysts don't believe the reason to be this straight forward. Analysts believe lack of a decent performance by mutual funds over the last 3-4 years is one crucial factor why investors are fleeing from equity funds. Read more