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THE GROWTH IN NET FLOW OF MUTUAL FUNDS: A CATEGORY WISE ANALYSIS

Himani Gupta

This paper focuses on the net flow of mutual funds and analyses yearly growth of in different categories of mutual funds. Mutual Funds are form of trust created for the purpose of pooling of funds for varied objectives for those investors who don’t manage funds themselves rather is done by Asset Management Company (AMC). Mutual Funds are required to be registered with SEBI and is regulated under the SEBI (MF) Regulation 1996. This paper would look into the growth analysis of Mutual funds in India in different categories and the interpretation would be discussed. During the research we see that except for the ELSS- Equity Mutual Funds and ETFs (other than Gold ETFs) has consistent growth. Also, Gold ETFs and Fund of Funds Investing Overseas Mutual Funds are constantly seeing Net Outflow. Equity Mutual remains the Mutual Fund to see highest Net Inflow in terms amount followed by Balanced Mutual funds. In total the Mutual funds have seen constant growth in terms of Net Inflow except during 2017-18. Mutual Funds provide a way to the investors who earlier were unable to invest due to constraints of finance, time, or expertise can do through using Mutual Funds. The different categories provide different options depending upon the need of investors. The different categories provide different options depending upon the need of investors.

KEYWORDSMutual Fund, Investors, Categories, Net Inflow/(Outflow).


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