AMFI Data: Equity mutual fund inflows decline 5% MoM to Rs 38,440 crore in April

The total inflows in equity mutual funds declined 5% to Rs 38,440 crore in April compared to Rs 40,450 crore in March. Meanwhile, on a year-on-year basis, the inflows soared 58% from Rs 24,269 crore recorded in April 2025.

Smallcap funds emerged as the second-highest inflow category in April, attracting Rs 6,885 crore, followed closely by midcap funds with inflows of Rs 6,551 crore. On a month-on-month basis, inflows into smallcap funds rose 10% from Rs 6,263 crore in March, while midcap funds recorded an 8% increase from Rs 6,063 crore.

Among other categories, focused funds saw the lowest positive inflow at Rs 1,194 crore. Meanwhile, ELSS funds witnessed an outflow of Rs 567 crore, while dividend yield funds recorded outflows of Rs 20.58 crore.


Debt Funds
Debt funds, which saw an outflow of Rs 2.94 lakh crore in March, received an inflow of Rs 2.47 lakh crore in April. Among the 16 sub-categories, liquid funds received the highest inflow of Rs 1.65 lakh crore in April, followed by overnight funds, which received an inflow of Rs 31,420 crore.

Money market funds received an inflow of Rs 20,642 crore in April, followed by ultra short duration funds, which received an inflow of Rs 15,651 crore.

Gilt funds saw highest outflow of Rs 1,048 crore in April, followed by long duration funds which saw an outflow of Rs 727 crore. Gilt funds with 10 year constant duration saw the lowest outflow of Rs 149 crore.

Hybrid funds
Hybrid funds received an inflow of Rs 20,565 crore in April compared to an outflow of Rs 16,538 crore in March. Among the six sub-categories, arbitrage funds stood first in the inflow matrix and received an inflow of Rs 12,378 crore in April, followed by multi asset allocation funds which received an inflow of Rs 5,113 crore.

Balanced advantage and dynamic asset allocation funds received an inflow of Rs 1,773 crore, followed by aggressive hybrid funds which received an inflow of Rs 1,488 crore. Conservative hybrid funds saw an outflow of Rs 106 crore and equity savings funds saw an outflow of Rs 81 crore.

Other schemes
The other schemes which include passive funds such as index funds, ETFs saw a decline in monthly inflows by 35% to Rs 20,082 crore in April compared to Rs 30,767 crore in March. Among the four sub categories, other ETFs received the highest inflow of Rs 10,754 crore.

Index funds received an inflow of Rs 4,625 crore, followed by gold ETFs which received an inflow of Rs 3,040 crore and fund of funds investing overseas which received an inflow of Rs 1,660 crore.

The total inflows for open-ended mutual funds was recorded at Rs 3.26 lakh crore against an outflow of Rs 2.40 lakh crore in March.

The total assets under management (AUM) was recorded at Rs 81.71 lakh crore in April registering a jump of 11% from Rs 73.48 lakh crore in March.

New schemes launched
In April, 11 new schemes were launched which together collected Rs 828 crore and SBI CRISIL-IBX Financial Services 3-6 Months Debt Index Fund contributed the maximum of Rs 237 crore.

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