Glossary

The terms this site uses, one plain line each, with a live example from its own data. Definitions only, not advice.

AMFI: Association of Mutual Funds in India. It publishes monthly inflows, redemptions and assets by scheme category.
AUM: Assets under management: the market value of everything a scheme or fund house manages on a date. Example: Parag Parikh Flexi Cap Fund: ₹1,47,064 cr, average for July - September 2026, all plans.
Block deal: A single trade of at least ₹10 crore struck in the exchange's separate block-deal window, reported with the buyer's or seller's name.
Bulk deal: A day's trades in which one party buys or sells more than 0.5% of a company's listed shares; the exchange publishes the name, side, quantity and price.
Delivery %: The part of the shares traded in a day that changed hands at settlement; the rest were bought and sold back the same day. Example: RELIANCE on 6 Nov 2026: 66.8 % of shares traded were delivered.
Depository (NSDL, CDSL): The two bodies that hold Indian shares in electronic form. Their daily reports are the source of the FPI figures.
DII: Domestic institutional investor: Indian mutual funds, insurers, banks, pension funds and similar institutions, counted together. Example: DII net on 8 Nov 2026: −₹700 cr (MSEI provisional).
Direct and regular plans: Two versions of one scheme with the same portfolio. A regular plan pays a distributor's commission out of its expense ratio, so it costs more and its NAV grows a little slower; a direct plan has no commission. Example: Parag Parikh Flexi Cap Fund: TER 0.68 % direct, 1.29 % regular, as of 8 Nov 2026.
FII / FPI: Foreign portfolio investor: a fund or institution outside India investing in listed Indian shares. FII is the older name for the same group. Example: FPI net on 6 Nov 2026: +₹16,278 cr (NSDL/CDSL).
Fund house (AMC): An asset management company: it runs a mutual fund's schemes and publishes their full portfolios every month under SEBI rules. Example: 13 fund houses' portfolios are on this site.
Index fund and ETF: A scheme that holds the shares of an index in the index's own weights instead of choosing stocks. An ETF does the same and is listed on an exchange, bought and sold like a share.
Lakh and crore: Indian units: 1 lakh = 1,00,000 (a hundred thousand) and 1 crore = 100 lakh = 1,00,00,000 (ten million). ₹1,000 cr is ₹10 billion.
Monthly portfolio: The list of every holding of every scheme at month end, which each fund house must publish within about ten days.
MTF (margin trading facility): A broker lends part of the price of shares a client buys and holds the shares as security. NSE publishes the total book of these loans every day. Example: The MTF book on 6 Nov 2026: ₹1,43,763 cr (NSE).
NAV (net asset value): The value of one unit of a scheme: what the scheme owns minus what it owes, divided by the units issued. AMFI publishes it for every scheme every business day. Example: Parag Parikh Flexi Cap Fund, direct growth plan: ₹93.9483 on 6 Nov 2026.
Net buying (implied change): For a fund house: each stock's change in shares held between two month-end portfolios, priced at the later month-end, added up. Buys minus sales; a fall in a stock's price alone does not count.
Net inflow: Money put into schemes minus money taken out (redemptions) over a period.
NFO: New fund offer: the first subscription window of a new scheme.
Pledged shares: Shares a promoter has given as security for a loan, disclosed to the exchange. Example: 382 companies show promoter shares pledged in their newest shareholding pattern.
Promoter: The founders or controlling shareholders named in a company's filings.
Scheme: One mutual fund product (for example a flexi cap or index fund) with its own portfolio, NAV and fund manager.
Scheme category: SEBI puts every open-ended scheme in one category (large cap, flexi cap, liquid and so on), each with a rule on what it must hold. A fund house may run one scheme per category, except index funds, ETFs, funds of funds and sectoral or thematic schemes. Example: 46 flexi cap schemes are in AMFI's list.
Settlement: The day traded shares and money actually change hands, one trading day after the trade (T+1) in India.
Shares outstanding: All the shares a company has issued; a deal's share of equity is its quantity divided by this number.
SIP: Systematic investment plan: a fixed amount invested in a scheme every month. AMFI reports the month's SIP inflow. Example: SIP inflow in Aug 2026: ₹30,838 cr (AMFI).
TER (total expense ratio): A scheme's yearly running cost as a % of its assets, taken out of the NAV a little each day. AMFI shows it in parts: the base expense ratio SEBI caps, brokerage, transaction costs and statutory levies such as GST and STT. Example: Parag Parikh Flexi Cap Fund: 0.68 % a year for the direct plan, as of 8 Nov 2026.

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