After mutual fund inflows surged to Rs 1.26 trillion in November, top fund manager Leo Puri said that the industry will continue to see strong inflows. In November, the industry AUM hit a new life high of Rs 22.79 lakh crore. The equity AUM has nearly quadrupled from Rs 1.66 lakh crore in April 2014 to Rs 6.56 lakh crore as of November 2017 even though in the same period overall industry AUM rose from Rs 9.45 lakh crore to Rs 22.79 lakh crore. “2017 has been a blockbuster year for mutual funds. We have seen a lot of inflows and liquidity,” Leo Puri of UTI AMC told CNBC TV18.
In the same interview, Leo Puri observed that SIPs have a significant contribution in the overall inflows. AMFI data shows that the MF industry had added about 9.05 lakh SIP accounts each month on an average during the FY 2017-18, with an average SIP size of about ₹3,250 per SIP account. In November alone, SIPs contributed to Rs 5,893 crore of the total inflows.