Mumbai, May 9 (IANS). Both the way of investing and the thinking in India are changing rapidly. Now investment is not limited only to big cities or select people, but participation of small towns, youth and women is also increasing rapidly. India’s retail investment ecosystem has undergone a sea change in the last decade and the scope of mutual fund SIPs has grown more than 10 times. These things were said by Grow CEO and Co-Founder Lalit Keshare during the ‘Grow India Investor Festival 2026’.
Speaking at the ‘Grow India Investor Festival 2026’ organized to commemorate the 10th foundation day of Grow in the country’s financial capital Mumbai, Lalit Keshare said, “The scope of retail investment in India has expanded beyond the metros, in which young and women investors have also played an important role.
The CEO of Groww further said that India’s retail investment ecosystem has undergone a massive transformation in the last decade, which has seen the assets under management (AUM) of mutual funds grow from around Rs 12 lakh crore in 2016 to over Rs 80 lakh crore currently. At the same time, monthly SIP investment has also increased by more than 10 times from around Rs 3,000 crore a decade ago.
He said that there has been a big change in the thinking of people in India. Now people are not limited to just earning but are focusing on building assets and wealth for the future. According to him, investment is now becoming an important part of the financial planning of common Indian families.
Keshare said, “Earlier, investment in stock market and mutual funds was mainly limited to tier-1 cities like Mumbai, Bengaluru. But now a large number of people from Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, North-Eastern states and other small towns of the country are also investing. This shows that financial awareness is increasing rapidly.”
He said that investment has expanded in Tier-2 and Tier-3 cities due to digital platforms and easy investment options. This has made it easier for common people to invest than before.
Keshare also said that now almost a quarter of the new investors coming into the market are women. He described this as a sign of the increasing maturity of the Indian financial markets. According to him, the increasing participation of women shows that now the role of women in financial decisions in families is also getting stronger.
He said that the biggest value creation in India in the future will come from the deep-tech sector. He says that technology, research and innovation will give a new direction to India’s economic progress in the coming years.
–IANS
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