Mutual fund managers have pumped in over Rs600 crore into equities since the beginning of this month, taking the total to more than Rs7,200 crore in the current fiscal so far. This comes on the top of more than Rs64,000 crore invested in the entire past fiscal. Growing participation from retail investors, especially from small towns, and several measures taken by markets regulator Sebi led to robust inflows in equities, industry experts said.
The regulator has given extra incentives for those expanding into smaller cities. Equities witnessed a net outflow of Rs575 crore in April, while a net inflow of Rs7,149 crore was seen in May and again a net inflow of Rs634 crore was witnessed this month (till June 23) taking the total to Rs6,208 crore, according to latest data with Sebi. Smaller towns have contributed more than 40 per cent of inflows in equity schemes.