India's equity fund managers, flushed with domestic liquidity, have invested a little over a tenth of their total investment in new entities which got listed so far in 2017. It needs to be noted that over the last three years, fund managers have shown quite an active participation in the primary market. The institutional segment of several issuances was solely consumed by mutual funds.
Initial Public Offerings (IPOs) have increasingly been looked after by fund managers who are finding it difficult to pump rising inflows in their existing holdings owing to the higher valuations. IPOs have somewhat proved to be a reliever to fund managers when it comes to investing rising inflows. Put together, of the total net investments of Rs 89,000 crore till September, fund managers moved a little over Rs 11,300 crore in new listings.
