26/12/2015
Individual wealth in financial assets reaches Rs. 160 lakh crore in 2015
Individual wealth in financial assets have grown from Rs. 73 lakh crore in 2010 to Rs.160 lakh crore in 2015, shows the latest Kavy Wealth Report 2015.
Team Cafemutual Dec 24, 2015
Individual investors are taking a shine to financial assets. The total individual wealth in financial assets has increased from Rs. 134 lakh crore in 2014 to Rs.160 lakh crore in 2015, shows Karvy Wealth Report 2015.
In fact, there has been a significant growth in individual financial assets in the last five years. Individual wealth in financial assets have grown from Rs. 73 lakh crore in 2010 to Rs.160 lakh crore in 2015.
Karvy predicts that this wealth will double from the current Rs. 160 lakh crore to Rs. 326 lakh crore in the next five years.
The study shows that financial assets, which had a share of only around 35% of the new money invested in the last year; now have as much as 54% share of the allocation of incremental savings and investments.
Individual wealth asset allocation
Asset Type
Amount (Cr.)
Proportion
Financial Assets
1,60,55,686
57.25%
Physical Assets
1,19,89,287
42.75%
Classification of individual wealth
Financial assets
Among the different financial assets, direct equity is the most preferred way for individual investors to participate in markets.
Apart from direct equity, individual assets in mutual funds also saw a healthy growth in 2015. Individual wealth in mutual funds stood at Rs. 5.52 lakh crore in 2015, an increase of 40% over the last year. The report states that mutual funds have seen the maximum growth of allocation of new money from individual investors.
Individual assets in debt and equity mutual fund
Asset Class
FY15 (Cr.)
FY14 (Cr.)
YoY growth (%)
Equity
3,15,987
1,83,748
71.97
Debt
2,36,338
2,09,392
12.87
Individual wealth in financial assets as on FY15
Assets
Amount (Cr.)
YoY Change %
Proportion
Direct Equity
34,39,861
29.02
21.4%
FDs and bonds
33,26,429
13.10
20.7%
Insurance
23,59,790
16.85
14.7%
Savings Deposits
19,90,249
22.20
12.4%
Cash
14,48,320
11.33
9.0%
Provident Fund
9,24,026
25.53
5.8%
NRI Deposits
7,20,997
15.85
4.5%
Small Savings
5,78,990
0.02
3.6%
Mutual Fund
5,52,325
40.49
3.4%
Current Deposits
3,42,785
11.25
2.1%
Pension Fund
3,15,915
30.96
2.0%
Alternate Assets
41,960
76.85
0.3%
International Assets
14,040
10.91
0.1%
Physical assets
Individual wealth in physical assets stood at Rs.119 lakh crore as on FY15. āThe wealth held in physical assets by Indian individuals de-grew by 2% in FY15 as compared to FY14. This is primarily on account of softening of prices of gold, silver and platinum globally. The individual wealth in gold stands at Rs.57.1 crore,ā shows the report.
Individual wealth in physical assets
Assets
Amount (Cr.)
YoY Change (%)
Proportion
Gold
57,15,605
-8.60
47.67%
Real Estate
52,85,577
4.89
44.09%
Diamond
7,98,934
2.81
6.66%
Silver
1,84,472
-6.04
1.54%
Platinum
4,698
-17.25
0.04%
As compared to financial assets, Karvy predicts that physical assets are expected to grow at a slower rate of 4.4% CAGR for the next five years.