Mutual Fund assets rise to record Rs2.89 lakh crore in July

03 Aug 2006

After recording a fall in total assets under management for the month of June 2006, the mutual fund industry has made a come back in July 2006 with total assets, excluding fund of funds, rising to Rs2,88,501 crore as of end July from Rs2,65,871 crore as of June end.

Total assets under management for end July is even higher than end of May 2006, which was at Rs275,949 crore (approximately $59 billion).

Prudential ICICI Mutual continued its reign as the top find house in the country for the third month. UTI Mutual Fund retained its second position while Reliance MF came in third.

Fund houses which reported the biggest additions to assets under management were Standard Chartered with an increase of Rs3,837 crore over June 2006 and Kotak Mahindra with Rs2,685 crore.

Fund House

July 2006

July 2005

June 2006

Prudential ICICI

31,432

17,915

30,143

UTI MF

30,958

22,778

30,115

Reliance MF

26,219

13,136

26,314

HDFC MF

25,695

16,590

24,391

Franklin Templeton

22,871

16,301

21,650

Birla Sun Life

15,884

10,812

14,610

SBI MF

14,079

7,186

13,634

Standard Chartered

13,388

7,901

9,551

Kotak Mahindra

13,011

7,155

10,326

Tata MF

12,342

9,129

11,159

Principal

11,841

6,542

10,038

HSBC

11,212

7,327

10,451

DSP Merrill Lynch

10,435

6,421

11,074

Figures in Rs Crore
Source: AMFI