mumbai retail investors seem to have been able to cushion the shock from covid19induced pandemic well in the last one year after scaling down their exposure to the mutual fund industry between april and november 2020 especially through the systematic investment plan sip route retail investors are again investing through this route like never beforeon friday mf industry trade body amfi said that in september total inflow through the sip route was rs 10351 crore the highest ever number surpassing the previous high of rs 9923 crore in august in the first half of the current fiscal in four out of six months monthly sip inflows were over rs 9000 croreaccording to n s venkatesh chief executive amfi sip contributions breaching the rs 10000crore milestone is reflective of continued confidence of retail investors in mfs retail investors are preferring mfs over lowyielding traditional savings avenues like bank fds gold and real estate venkatesh said he expects that on the back of rapidly improving economic scenario aided by conducive rbi policy and easing of covidrelated restrictions stocks would continue to deliver superior riskadjusted returnsboosted by strong sip flows the total assets managed by the mf industry also went past the rs 36 lakh crore from the first time to settle at rs 366 lakh crore amfi data showed