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Mutual Funds garner Rs 24,000 crore in August

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Mutual Funds garner Rs 24,000 crore in August
NEW DELHI: Investors have put in nearly Rs 24,000 crore in various mutual funds in August after pulling out money from such schemes in the preceding two months.

The huge inflows of funds during August followed a net withdrawal of Rs 50,067 crore in the preceding month, taking the total outflows for two consecutive months to close to Rs 1 lakh crore.

 

As per the latest data available with market regulator Sebi, investors have pumped in a net amount of Rs 23,713 crore in August in various mutual fund (MF) schemes.

 

This takes the MFs' net mobilisation of funds from investors so far in the current fiscal (April-August) at about Rs 69,252 crore. Mutual fund is an investment vehicle that is made up of a pool of funds collected from many investors for the purpose of investing in securities such as stocks, bonds, money market instruments and similar assets.

At gross level, mutual funds mobilised Rs 8.05 lakh crore in August, but also witnessed redemption worth Rs 7.81 lakh crore - resulting into a net outflow of Rs 23,713 crore. This fund mobilisation has also helped the total a AUM of mutual funds to grow to Rs 7.66 lakh crore as on August 31, 2013, from Rs 7.6 in the previous month.

PTI

Story first published: Thursday, October 3, 2013, 9:49 [IST]
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