The Data is courtesy the amfiindia.com site of AMFI

October turned out to be buoyant for the entire economy with retail and auto sectors reporting a 30% + uptick in sales and mutual funds also adding a neat INR 20000 Crores or $4.33 billion.

However individual fortunes were mixed as some fund houses managed to lose in Assets under management in the cracker season. UTI MF grew further by INR 3260 Crores or $720 million, and even Tata MF growing by INR 2500 Crores or $550 million. A small player like Kotak grew its corpus by INR 1350 Crores or $ 300 million. It is definitely a market whose time has come.

However Religare lost over 350 crores in AUM in the festive celebrations as it also withdrew from its AIG The newer giant Reliance at INR 116782 Crores also reported a reduction of INR 2000 crores and the growth is favoring the progressive biggies with a good corporate governance score. ICICI Prudential kept losing custom with markets withdrawing theuir favor after the recent turmoil in its ranks losing a miniscule but significant INR 400 crores, while its larger rival HDFC MF has taken its market share up to 12.23% growing to INR 93.300 Crores

The only other significant player in the Birla Sun Life MF grew rapidly by INR 2000 crores with the AUM of INR 65.500 crores reflecting a market share of 8.5% Ajay as head of the Financial Services business for the group has recently appeared in a a few network interviews to beef up these gains and reiterate BSL's plan and vision in the upcoming wealth explosion in India. Fidelity MF remained between ICICI and HDFC in the rankings with INR 87000 crores or $19 billion without reporting any close ended schemes in October

UTI MF grew best in its Income funds with INR 5000 Crores adding in its Treasury Advantage plan and HDFC has grown its best performing Prudence ( Balanced ) and Top 200 ( Equity , medium risk ) schemes among others