Sebi's red eye against mutual funds for giving greedy offers to distributors

MUMBAI: Some mutual funds have come under the Securities and Exchange Board's (Sebi) scrutiny for incurring the cost of their trips to encourage distributors to boost sales of mutual fund schemes.
Sebi has provided information on this to the industry body Association of Mutual Funds in India (AMFI), informed sources said.
Amfi has instructed its members to stay away from such activities. This is the second such notification in the last one year. Currently, as a result of the stock market rally, the amount of investing through mutual funds has also increased.
In the past two years, a large number of retail investors have entered the stock market and there is intense competition among fund houses to attract them. For this, fund houses have to rely on distributors.
As a rule, fund houses cannot provide benefits to distributors other than commission. Mis-selling of schemes is likely to increase as a result of greedy non-commission incentives, sources also said.
At the end of 2023, the overall AUM of the country's mutual fund industry increased by 27% year-on-year to Rs 50.80 trillion, which indicates increased interest in investing in the capital market through mutual funds by investors, especially retail investors.
Last year, the total sale of various equity schemes was Rs 386 billion.
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