What are you trying to do with the money?
There are 3,332 funds and forty-odd SEBI categories. Almost nobody needs to see all of them — picking the job first removes most of the decision.
Grow it over years
Flexi cap funds
One fund, any company size, the manager decides the mix. The usual starting point for money you will not need for five years or more.
Cut this year's tax
ELSS tax savers
Deductible under Section 80C, with a three-year lock-in — the shortest of any 80C option. Equity risk applies for the whole period.
Draw an income
Equity savings funds
Roughly a third equity, a third arbitrage, a third debt. Steadier than an equity fund and taxed better than a deposit.
Park it for months
Liquid funds
For money with a date on it — a deposit due, fees, a purchase. Redeemable in a day, and no lock-in.
Pay the least
Index funds
No manager trying to beat the market, so the fee is a fraction of an active fund's. Over twenty years that gap compounds into real money.
Just looking
Everything, by category
Where the country's ₹87 lakh crore actually sits, every fund house, and the full category list below.
Where India's ₹— lakh crore sits
Real money under management, by category, from the monthly industry report — not scheme counts, which tell you how many products exist rather than how many people bought them.
The biggest categories
Ranked by money invested, with the number of investor folios in each. Index funds and ETFs are counted in the mix above but left out here — they are a way of buying a category, not a category.
Fund houses, by open funds
How many funds each house keeps open to new money. Closed-ended paper is excluded — one house alone runs several hundred fixed-maturity plans nobody can buy, and counting those makes a shelf look like a business. Breadth of range, not money managed.
Fund data refreshed daily from the industry's published files. Every plan and payout variant is covered; listings show one row per fund, and each fund page lets you switch between its Direct, Regular, Growth and IDCW options. Educational only, not investment advice.