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The unique mutual fund investor count reached 3.4 crore in April 2022 as the industry added over 6.7 lakh new investors last month.
However, the growth in investor count was much lower in April compared to the average investor addition in the previous 10 months. In the last one year, the industry added more than 10 lakh investors on four occasions — July 2021, December 2021, January 2022 and February 2022. The highest investor addition happened in December 2021, when the industry reached the landmark of 3 crore unique investors with an addition of 22.5 lakh new investors.
The unique investor count is the total number of PAN and PEKRN (PAN exempt investor category) registered with mutual funds.
As of April-end 2022, the total number of unique PANs and PEKRNs registered with the industry was 3.38 crore and 4.63 lakh.
The last financial year was a breakthrough year for the industry as far as investor addition is concerned. The industry added over 1.09 crore new investors during the period. As a result, the count jumped 48% to 3.37 crore last financial year.
|
Month |
Unique investor count |
Growth |
|
May-21 |
2.35 crore |
— |
|
Jun-21 |
2.4 crore |
4,38,340 |
|
Jul-21 |
2.5 crore |
10,92,111 |
|
Aug-21 |
2.58 crore |
8,04,756 |
|
Sep-21 |
2.67 crore |
9,14,270 |
|
Oct-21 |
2.76 crore |
8,61,179 |
|
Nov-21 |
2.83 crore |
7,72,801 |
|
Dec-21 |
3 crore |
22,52,697 |
|
Jan-22 |
3.17 crore |
10,98,579 |
|
Feb-22 |
3.27 crore |
10,28,491 |
|
Mar-22 |
3.37 crore |
9,37,836 |
|
Apr-22 |
3.43 crore |
6,77,360 |
