Mutual Funds
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How India’s mutual funds are powering through a flat market
As growth in equities cools, asset managers are looking to embed themselves in payrolls, payments, and credit. This raises their influence, but also the stakes.
02 Jun 2026
MFs hold up India’s IPO market, their investors foot the bill
As retail interest in public issuances fades, mutual funds are filling the gap—funding promoter exits and delivering subpar returns to the very investors they represent.
13 Apr 2026
Another see-saw year for markets ahead?
2025 was a year of many contrasts for India’s stock market. The big hope for 2026 is of foreign investors coming back, as valuations temper and earnings growth picks up.
25 Dec 2025
JioBlackRock to launch its first active equity fund without collection target
The flexi-cap fund, powered by the AI-driven systematic active equity approach, opens for subscription on 23 September, with three to four more active equity funds planned for this fiscal year.
11 Sept 2025
JioBlackRock gets SEBI approval for five passive index funds
The joint venture between Reliance's Jio Financial Services and BlackRock has received regulatory clearance to launch four equity funds and one debt fund.
16 Jul 2025
Exclusive: Sanjiv Bajaj’s Bajaj Finserv needs to be in everything, everywhere all at once
The financial services group has gone way beyond loans and insurance to MFs, broking, platform services and even venture investing. All while keeping its core values intact.
16 Jun 2025
Jio Financial Services has a business and people problem
Strapped for top-flight talent as well as differentiated products, Reliance’s financial services business hasn’t managed to move the needle in its two years of existence.
06 May 2025
It’s time fund managers fell out of love with underperforming HUL
The consumer goods giant’s performance has been in a funk for a long time. Fund managers need to stop giving it a long rope.
01 May 2025
Exclusive: SBI MF dusts off plans for a mega IPO
SBI is in discussions with its French partner on the contours of a near Rs 20,000-crore listing of the mutual fund house. But challenges in the form of a unique shareholder agreement and the recent poor performance of the AMC could derail plans.
08 Apr 2025
Decoding SEBI’s new skin-in-the-game regulations for AMCs
While paying heed to the growing concerns of mutual funds around how mandatory investment norms are affecting junior employees, the market regulator has ensured the industry remains accountable to investors.
23 Mar 2025
