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Sebi moves toward brokerage fee restructuring to make mutual funds cheaper
Sebi is pushing brokerage cost reforms inside mutual funds to simplify fee flows, reduce frictional expenses, and create cleaner transparency standards for investors across the MF industry.
India’s capital markets regulator Sebi is moving ahead with a brokerage rationalization agenda within mutual funds, which aims to eliminate distortionary cost layers and improve disclosure transparency for investors. The regulator believes current fee structures and brokerage incentive flows introduce opacity in transaction-level economics and create unnecessary frictional cost burden on unit holders. Under the new direction being discussed, cost compressions, clean fee benchmarking, uniform transparency standards, and more standardised commission slabs may be implemented. Fund houses expect this will expand retail participation and create stronger governance across the MF distribution architecture heading into FY26 reforms.