Driven by strong participation from retail investors, mutual fund (MF) houses have registered an addition of around 62 lakh investor accounts in the first 10 months of the current fiscal, taking the total tally to 5.4 crore.
This follows addition of 59 lakh folios in 2015-16 and 22 lakh in 2014-15. In the last two years, numbers of investor accounts have increased following robust contribution from smaller towns.
Folios are numbers designated to individual investor accounts though one investor can have multiple ones.