March sees ₹25,082 crore equity mutual fund inflows, 14% decline from February: AMFI

AMFI data March 2025: Equity mutual funds witnessed a 14% month-on-month decline in net inflows, falling to ₹25,082.01 crore in March, according to data released by the Association of Mutual Funds in India (AMFI) on April 11.

This follows a sharper 26% decline in February, when net inflows dropped to ₹29,303.34 crore amid a significant market correction. Overall, inflows into equity dropped by 36.8 percent over a span of two months.

Inflows into large cap funds dropped from ₹2,866 crore to ₹2,479 crore. Conversely, inflows into small caps rose from ₹3,722 crore to ₹4,092 crore.

There was an increase in inflows into multi cap funds as well from ₹2,517 crore to ₹2,752 crore. In sectoral funds, there was a sharp drop from ₹5,711 crore to 170 crore.

Key Highlights

Monthly inflows via Systematic Investment Plans (SIP) into mutual funds marginally declined to a four-month low of ₹25,926 crore in March, despite equity markets staging a recovery.

These are some of the key highlights of March data:

>> Mutual Fund Industry’s Net AUM stands at ₹ 65,74,287.20 crores for the month of March 2025.

>> Mutual Fund Folios are at 23,45,08,071 as of March 2025

>> This was the 49th month of positive equity inflows, starting from March 2021.

>> Growth/Equity Oriented schemes inflows for the month of March 2025 are ₹ 25,082.01 crores.

>> Number of new SIPs registered in March 2025 stood at 40,18,564

>> The SIP AUM is at ₹ 13,35,188.07 crores for the month of March 2025

>> SIP contribution for March 2025 stood at ₹ 25,925.63 crores

>> The number of Contributing SIP accounts stood at 8.11 crores

In March, a total of 30 schemes were launched raising a total of ₹4,085 crore. Out of these, there were 11 index schemes which raised a total of ₹2,049 crore. Besides, there was one gold ETF, 10 other ETFs and four equity-oriented funds.

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