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Principal Mutual Fund (historical)

Tue, 19 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Principal Mutual Fund was the Indian asset management arm of Principal Financial Group , a US-headquartered diversified financial services group. Operating until 2021, the AMC built a smaller-scale presence in the Indian mutual fund industry before being acquired by Sundaram Asset Management in December 2021. The transaction marked Principal Financial Group’s exit from the Indian mutual fund market.

For Indian retail investors who held Principal Mutual Fund scheme units, the entity is now Sundaram Mutual Fund . Folios and units continued through the rebrand without operational disruption.

Sundaram acquisition of Principal Mutual Fund (2021)

Tue, 19 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

In December 2021, Sundaram Asset Management acquired Principal Asset Management’s Indian mutual fund business, integrating Principal MF into the Sundaram franchise. The acquisition added approximately Rs 9,000-10,000 crore in AUM to Sundaram MF and marked the exit of Principal Financial Group (US-headquartered) from the Indian mutual fund market.

For the Indian mutual fund industry, the Sundaram-Principal deal was part of the broader 2021-2022 consolidation wave, with several smaller-scale international AMCs exiting via acquisition by larger Indian or global players.

Sundaram acquisition of Principal Mutual Fund (2021)

Tue, 12 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

The Sundaram Asset Management Company acquisition of Principal Asset Management (India) Private Limited in 2021 represented the exit of the US-headquartered Principal Financial Group from its Indian mutual fund joint venture and the absorption of its approximately Rs 6,800 crore AUM into the Sundaram Mutual Fund franchise. The acquisition, announced in April 2021 and completed later that year, was one of several AMC consolidation transactions in the 2019 to 2022 wave that reshaped the composition of the Indian asset management landscape by eliminating sub-scale standalone AMC entities.