SIP Stoppage Ratio Crossed 100% in 2026 — Should You Worry About Your Own SIP?
By Nitish Bharadwaj · Published Jul 2, 2026 · 6 min
AMFI's SIP stoppage ratio — the share of monthly SIP accounts discontinued or completed against new ones started — crossed 100% in both March and April 2026, even as SIP inflows hit record highs of over ₹31,000 crore each month. This guide explains what the stoppage ratio measures, why it lumps natural tenure completions together with real cancellations into one number, why record inflows and a shrinking account count can both be true at once, and a simple framework for deciding whether the national trend has any bearing on your own ongoing SIP.
AMFI's monthly SIP data threw up a strange headline in 2026: more systematic investment plans are ending every month than are being started, while the money flowing into SIPs keeps hitting record highs. If you've seen this reported as a warning sign for the mutual fund industry, or wondered whether it means you should stop your own SIP, here's what the "stoppage ratio" actually measures — and what it doesn't.
What Is the SIP Stoppage Ratio?
Every month, AMFI publishes the number of new SIPs registered alongside the number of SIPs discontinued or completed. The stoppage ratio is simply the second figure divided by the first. A ratio above 100% means more SIP accounts ended in that month than were newly registered — which is exactly what happened in India through the first half of 2026.
The 2026 Numbers
| Month | Stoppage Ratio | What Else Happened |
|---|---|---|
| Feb 2026 | ~75.6% | 49.70 lakh SIPs discontinued or tenure-completed |
| Mar 2026 | Crossed 100% | Record SIP inflow of ₹32,087 crore in the same month |
| Apr 2026 | Stayed above 100% | SIP inflow of ₹31,115 crore — still near record levels |
| May 2026 | Improved | New SIP registrations exceeded discontinuations for the first time in two months |
Why Inflows Rose While Accounts Shrank
The apparent contradiction — record monthly inflows alongside a shrinking number of outstanding SIP accounts — comes down to composition, not panic. Even as the total count of active SIP accounts contracted in March and April 2026, overall mutual fund folios kept rising, and the SIPs that continued were contributing more money on average. In other words, the industry didn't see a mass exodus of investors; it saw a churn where some accounts ended on schedule while remaining and new investors put in larger amounts.
Should You Stop Your Own SIP?
A national aggregate ratio says nothing about whether your specific SIP should continue — that decision should be driven by your own goal timeline and whether your fund selection still fits your risk appetite, not by a headline statistic. If your real question is whether to pause a SIP because the market has fallen, that's a separate decision with its own framework, covered in detail here.
- Reasonable reasons to let a SIP end: it was a fixed-tenure SIP completing its committed period, you've already hit the goal amount it was funding, or you're consolidating several small SIPs into fewer, larger ones.
- Reasons worth questioning: stopping purely because of one bad month in the market, or stopping without redirecting that monthly amount into any other saving or investment.
Bottom Line
The stoppage ratio crossing 100% is a real, AMFI-reported number, but it describes an industry-wide mix of natural tenure completions and genuine cancellations — not a verdict on whether SIPs are working. If you're rethinking your own allocation, that's a better time to revisit fund selection basics like index funds versus active funds, how NPS compares with PPF for the retirement portion of your portfolio, or whether your ELSS picks still make sense — not to react to one month's national ratio.