New Delhi, May 9 -- Investors pumped money into debt mutual funds in April as they sought lower-risk options to ride out the market volatility and to rebalance their portfolios at the start of the financial year, taking net inflows into these funds to the highest in over two decades.

Net inflows into debt-oriented open-ended mutual fund schemes were at Rs.2.19 trillion in April-the highest since January 2005, from when this data is available. The net inflows marked a sharp reversal from March, when debt-oriented schemes witnessed outflows of Rs.2.02 trillion.

Within debt schemes, liquid funds saw the highest inflows of Rs.1.18 trillion, followed by money market funds' Rs.31,507 crore and ultra-short duration funds' Rs.26,733 crore, data...