'Market falls would earlier trigger MF redemptions. Not now': Motilal Oswal's Akhil Chaturvedi

Akhil Chaturvedi, ED & CBO, Motilal Oswal

Akhil Chaturvedi, ED & CBO, Motilal Oswal believes that investors in India are more mature now and don’t panic if there is a decline in the markets.

“There was a phase when markets used to fall, we would see domination of sips, redemption from MFs. But in the last five years, what we have seen is that incrementally, that is not what is happening,” said Chaturvedi during Moneycontrol’s Mutual Fund Summit 2025 in Bengaluru on October 27.

Chaturvedi further said that there has been a lot more demand for index funds, gold and silver and exchange-traded funds (ETFs).

He also said that the principles of asset allocation to be incorporated by all of the firm’s distribution partners in client portfolio is that “they should have something of everything, so that after one year, there is no FOMO that I didn't have gold or silver or equity”.

In addition, Chaturvedi said India's growing population of people with net worth of over a million dollar are showing huge interest in alternate investment funds. "We now have one and a half million Indians who have a million dollar and more of net worth. So this, part of population is growing at a very fast pace and this is where the demand is coming for AIFs."