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The latest MF industry data shows that the industry has added 3 lakh unique investors in the MF fold in April 2025. The unique investor count of the industry has increased from 5.42 crore in March 2025 to 5.45 crore in April 2025.
The industry has also added 18 lakh new folios during this month. With this, the total MF folio count has increased to 23.63 crore in April 2025.
Here are the other key data points of the month gone by:
SIP data
- The MF industry has recorded registration of 46 lakh in April new SIPs compared to 40.2 lakh in March 2025
- SIP contribution has increased from Rs. 25,900 crore in March to Rs. 26,600 crore in April 2025
- SIP AUM has increased from Rs. 13.35 lakh crore to Rs. 13.90 lakh crore, an increase of 4%
- Equity schemes constitute 86% of the total SIP AUM at Rs. 12 lakh crore
- The number of outstanding SIP accounts stands at 8.38 crore
T30 & B30 folio count
- T30 folio count has increased from 12.25 crore to 12.33 crore in April, marking an increase of 0.65%
- Out of the 8 lakh new folios, 3 lakh have been added in direct plans while the remaining 5 lakh folios have been added through distributors
- B30 folio count has also seen an almost 1% increase and stands at 11.30 crore in April compared to 11.20 crore in March
- The folio addition in B30 cities has been evenly distributed between direct mode and regular mode, both contributing 5 lakh new folios
- Overall, out of the 18 lakh folios added by the industry in April, 10 lakh have been added through distributors while the remaining 8 lakh have come through direct plan
T30 & B30 AUM
- T30 assets of the industry have seen a 7% increase from Rs. 53.17 lakh crore to Rs. 56.84 lakh crore in April 2025
- B30 assets have also grown by nearly 5% from Rs. 12.57 lakh crore to Rs. 13.16 lakh crore during April
Average AUM per Folio (ticket size)
- The average AUM per folio in T30 cities has increased from Rs. 2.50 lakh to Rs. 2.58 lakh in April
- In B30 cities, it has increased from Rs. 97,000 to Rs. 1 lakh in the month of April
- The combined average AUM per folio for retail investors (T30+B30) has increased from Rs. 1.77 lakh to Rs. 1.82 lakh
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NFO data
- The industry launched 7 NFOs last month
- 4 out of these 7 new schemes are passive funds, divided evenly between index funds and non-commodity ETFs with 2 each
- Equity schemes have seen 1 NFO in sectoral and thematic funds while hybrid funds have seen a new arbitrage fund scheme in April
- Debt schemes have seen 1 NFO in overnight scheme
ARN registration
- There have been 4,596 new ARN registrations in the month of April. Of these, 1948 are individual MFDs
- 22.5% of these have been from Maharashtra while Gujarat is second with an 11.5% share
- Uttar Pradesh has recorded the third most share in registrations at 8.6%
- Karnataka and West Bengal are next and constitute 5.8% and 5.7% of the total ARN registrations in April
ARN renewal
- April 2025 has recorded 7,220 ARN renewals
- 4,200 of these renewals have been from individuals while corporate employees have recorded 2,794 renewals
- Corporates have made 213 of these renewals while employees of individual MFDs account for the remaining 13 renewals
