Providing the veiw on AMFI data Viraj Gandhi, CEO of SAMCO Mutual Fund saiid: It seems the down fall in the Assets Under Management (AUM) of Large Cap funds is over. The market share of large cap AUM kept falling from 17% in October 2021 to 11.7% in December 2024, now finally rose to 12.2% in February 2025. We had anticipated this rise and now it is playing out. This is led by inflows of ₹2,866 Crore in month of February 2025. When times are volatile, it is the Large caps that is preferred investment destination.
There is some slowdown witnessed in the fresh inflows which stood at 10-month low collection of ₹29,303 Crore compared to ₹39,688 Crore in the month of January 2025. Sectoral funds which saw monthly average collection for ₹ 15,000 Crore in previous 10 months, fell to just ₹5,711 Crore in the month of February 2025
The party in small cap schemes which started post COVID has now taken a halt and its market share in the total AUM fell from 10.8% in December 2024 to 10% in February 2025. This indicates a sharp cut of 9% in two months due to fall of almost 10% in small cap index during this time.
The AMFI data above shows there is still long catch up to be done in the funds dedicated to the Large cap and Flexi cap schemes in the coming period.
