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Glossary
Assets Under Management is the total market value of investments managed by a fund house, scheme, or portfolio manager.
AUM tells you how much money investors have collectively placed with a fund or asset manager — a measure of size and trust.
AUM fluctuates with market movements, inflows, and redemptions. Large AUM can improve economies of scale but may constrain flexibility in small-cap or niche strategies due to liquidity and impact costs.
If a large-cap fund has NAV ₹100 and 50 crore units, its AUM is ₹5,000 crore. A 10% market rally pushes AUM to roughly ₹5,500 crore even without new inflows.
Not always. Large AUM signals scale and stability, but very large funds may struggle in small-cap spaces. Fit with strategy matters more than size alone.
Higher AUM can spread fixed costs over more assets, sometimes lowering expense ratio, though this is not automatic across all fund houses.
AMFI, fund house websites, and factsheets publish scheme-level AUM updated monthly or more frequently.