Indian Mutual Fund industry recorded 18 lakh new folios during April, 2025

Indian Mutual Fund industry recorded 18 lakh new folios during April, 2025

By Mr. Yaseen Sahar, Financial Expert

 

The latest Indian Mutual Fund industry AMFI data shows that the industry has added 3 lakh unique investors in the Mutual fund 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 MF 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 Mutual Fund industry has recorded registration of 46 lakh in April 2025 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 mutual fund 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 2025, 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                                       

Average AUM per Folio:

• The average AUM per folio ((Ticket Size)) in T30 cities has increased from Rs. 2.50 lakh to Rs. 2.58 lakh in April, 2025
• In B30 cities, it has increased from Rs. 97,000 to Rs. 1 lakh in the month of April 2025.
• The combined average AUM per folio for retail investors (T30+B30) has increased from Rs. 1.77 lakh to Rs. 1.82 lakh

  

• NFO data

• The industry  launched 7 NFOs (New Fund offers) 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 & renewal

• There have been 4,596 new ARN registrations in the month of April. Of these, 1948 are individual MFDs

• April 2025 has recorded 7,220 ARN renewals
• 4,200 of these renewals have been from individuals.

 

Mr. Yaseen Sahar has been reached at rahas84@gmail.com and 98433 13512

 

Disclaimer: Mutual Fund investments are subject to market risks, read all scheme related documents carefully. The past performance of the mutual funds is not necessarily indicative of future performance of the schemes.