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The latest mutual fund industry data shows that despite market volatility, the industry has added 5.50 lakh new unique investors to the MF fold.
The total number of investors has reached 5.39 crore in February 2025 from 5.33 crore in January 2025.
Here are other important highlights of February.
Average AUM
- Average AUM of the industry has reduced marginally by 1% in February from Rs. 68.05 lakh crore to Rs. 67.58 lakh crore
- The average AUM has increased by 18% in the last one year from Rs. 54.52 lakh crore in February 2024 to Rs. 67.58 lakh crore in February 2025
SIP Data
- The total number of outstanding SIP accounts has decreased from 10.27 crore in January 2025 to 10.17 crore in February 2025
- SIP contribution has reduced from Rs. 26,400 crore in January 2025 to Rs. 26,000 crore in February 2025
- The number of contributing SIP accounts has seen a decline from 8.35 crore in January 2025 to 8.26 crore in February 2025
- SIP AUM has also decreased from Rs. 13.20 lakh crore in January 2025 to Rs. 12.38 lakh crore in February 2025
Folio count
- The month of February has seen an addition of 30.81 lakh new folios
- The overall folio count of the industry has now increased from 22.92 crore in January 2025 to 23.23 crore in February 2025
- The folio count in T30 cities has increased from 12.02 crore to 12.14 crore in the month of February, recording an increase of 1%
- B30 folio count has also increased by almost 2% from 10.90 crore to 11.09 crore during the month
Average AUM per folio
- The average AUM per folio of retail investors in B30 cities is Rs. 92,000 in February, showing a decline of about 8% from Rs. 99,000 in January 2025
- The average AUM per folio in T-30 has decreased from Rs. 2.56 lakhs in January 2025 to Rs. 2.41 lakhs in February 2025 showing a 6% decline
- The combined average AUM per folio of retail investors (T30 + B30) has decreased from Rs. 1.81 lakh in January 2025 to Rs. 1.70 lakh in February 2025
T30 and B30 AUM
- MF AUM from T30 cities has decreased by 4% from Rs. 54.65 lakh crore in January 2025 to Rs. 52.59 lakh crore in February 2025
- B30 AUM has also recorded a decline from Rs. 12.60 lakh crore to Rs. 11.94 lakh crore in the month of February, showing a 5.5% decrease.
ARN registrations
- February 2025 saw 5,177 ARN registrations. Out of these, 2,315 has come from individuals, 2,693 from corporate employees, 158 from corporate, 156 from private limited companies, partnership firms, 9 from individual MFD employees, 2 from overseas distributors and 1 each from NBFC and bank
- While Maharashtra account for 20.4% of the new registrations in February, Gujarat made up 9% of the registrations. Uttar Pradesh constitute 8.5% of new ARN registrations
- West Bengal and Rajasthan make up the top five with 7% and 5% of registrations of the new ARN registrations
- Other states and union territories with high registrations in February include Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Bihar, Madhya Pradesh and Delhi
ARN renewals
- The industry has witnessed 5,300 ARN renewals
- 3,060 out of these renewals is from individuals while corporate employees account for 2,052 of them
- Corporates and individual MFD employees contributed 183 and 5 renewals, respectively
NFOs
- February saw the launch of 28 new open-ended MF schemes
- Index funds have seen launch of 12 new schemes in February while sectoral/thematic funds have seen the second largest launches with 7 NFOs
- Non-commodity ETFs are on the third spot with 5 new NFOs in the segment
- Gold ETFs, money market funds, multi cap funds and multi asset allocation funds have seen the launch of 1 scheme each
