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Without strong SIP inflows, markets could have fallen 40-50%: Vikas Satija

Indian markets moved lower in a mutual funds development.

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Vikas Satija, MD & CEO, Shriram Wealth, said that this kind of FII selling in previous cycles of market downturn could have resulted in a 40-50 per cent drawdown.

This is an Index / institutional flows event. Passive and institutional flows move price independently of fundamentals, and around rebalancing dates they dominate it.

Because the driver here is macro rather than company-specific, the read-through is to index-level positioning rather than to any single name — correlations tend to rise when the whole market faces the same signal.

  • This is a market-wide development — its reach goes beyond any single stock.