Rs 6,100 crore in 3 months: Riding the wave of floating-rate mutual funds

Influx reverses Rs 32,250 crore outflow trend of 11 months

Floating-rate mutual funds are back in demand after a year-long period of consistent outflows. In the past three months, investors have poured over Rs 6,100 crore into these debt schemes, indicating a reversal in fortunes for the category that recorded outflows for 11 consecutive months (May 2022 to March 2023), totalling Rs 32,250 crore.

Floating-rate funds invest at least 65 per cent in floating-rate instruments, which have their interest rates linked to the Reserve Bank of India repo rate.
 

The inflows have started to come in after the floating-rate funds outperformed all other debt categories in the last year, except for