SEBI’s New Mutual Fund Rules 2026: What Changes for Your SIP

Quick answer: SEBI rewrote its mutual fund rulebook in 2026. The SEBI (Mutual Funds) Regulations, 2026 took effect on 1 April 2026. They replaced the old expense ratio with a lower-capped Base Expense Ratio (BER), shown separately from brokerage and taxes. A new categorisation framework added Life Cycle Funds, closed children’s and retirement (solution-oriented) funds […]


