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Mutual funds in India: complete guide

Mon, 18 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

A mutual fund in India is a pooled-investment vehicle operated by a SEBI-registered Asset Management Company (AMC) that issues units to investors against money received and invests the pooled corpus in securities according to a published scheme objective. The Indian mutual fund industry has grown from a single state-controlled trust in 1963 to over 44 SEBI-registered AMCs managing more than Rs 65 lakh crore in assets under management (AUM) by 2025, with industry folios crossing 200 million and unique investor count approaching 50 million. The industry is regulated by the Securities and Exchange Board of India under the SEBI (Mutual Funds) Regulations 1996 and self-regulated through the industry codes published by the Association of Mutual Funds in India (AMFI) .

ET Money

Sat, 16 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

ET Money is an Indian personal-finance platform and direct-plan mutual fund investment application, operated by Times Internet Limited, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Bennett, Coleman and Company Limited (BCCL), publishers of the Times of India and the Economic Times. Accessible at etmoney.com and through Android and iOS applications, ET Money is structured as a SEBI-registered investment adviser (RIA) under the SEBI (Investment Advisers) Regulations, 2013, alongside complementary AMFI ARN and IRDAI registrations for non-MF distribution. The platform combines direct-plan mutual fund distribution, an automated portfolio-recommendation service (ET Money Genius), insurance distribution, and a personal-expense-tracking module that traces back to the platform’s pre-Times-Internet origins as a personal-finance tracker.