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Source: Live Mint Legendary investor Warren Buffett has long argued that passive funds such as the S&P 500 ETF remain the best bet for the average investor. It seems investors in the US have heeded his advice, as passive funds now account for 59% of the total domestic and international equity investments of $23 trillion…
Source: Live Mint Q. My wife and I have been investing in debt mutual funds and Sensex tracking index mutual funds for the past 8 years. We now intend to diversify and invest in index funds tracking the Nifty 500 Momentum 50 Index. Can you please elaborate on the pros and cons of investing in…
Source: Live Mint Stock markets have characteristically been volatile in the past few days. After delivering the best session of four years on Monday by rising 3.7 percent, Sensex dropped 1.6 percent on Tuesday. In the last two sessions of the previous week, Indian markets lost $83 billion in market cap on the India Pakistan conflict following Operation…
Source: Live Mint Q. I have been investing in largecap mutual funds for the past 5 years. Now, I want to invest in midcap indices, particularly in Nifty Midcap 50. Can you please elaborate on the pros and cons of investing in mutual funds tracking Nifty Midcap 50 Index? Additionally, please elaborate on the differences…
Source: Live Mint Motilal Oswal Asset Management Company’s proposed new fund—Motilal Oswal BSE 1000 Index Fund—will be passively managed and track the newly launched BSE 1000 index. But should investors consider putting their money into a fund tracking a 1,000-stock index? First, let’s look at the numbers. BSE 1000 vs BSE 500 Motilal Oswal’s new…
Source: Live Mint Q. Me and my wife have been investing in Nifty 50 tracking mutual funds for the past 8 years. We now intend to diversify by investing in Nifty100 Quality 30 index-tracking mutual funds. Can you tell us the pros and cons of investing in index mutual funds tracking the Nifty100 Quality 30…
Source: Live Mint UTI Nifty Index Fund, India’s oldest Nifty 50 index fund, turned 25 this March. Since its launch in 2000, it has delivered a return of 11.51%, which means a sum of ₹10 lakh invested at its launch would have grown to approximately ₹1.5 crore today. While this return is commendable, active large-cap…
Source: Live Mint This quote holds significance, especially in building a balanced portfolio that provides growth prospects along with stability in the long run. One way to achieve this is to utilise core satellite investing. Developed in 1973 by US economists Fischer Black and Jack Treynor—who also created the CAPM model—core satellite investing blends active…
Source: Live Mint Investors in India are now keenly searching for passive investments, this trend is gaining traction as the short term equity market returns are starting to wane due to consistent Foreign Institutional Investors (FII) selling. That is why it will be reasonable to know what Index Funds and Exchange-Traded Funds (ETFs) are and…
Source: Live Mint Q. My wife and I have invested in Sensex tracking index funds for the past 8 years and now we want to invest in other index funds. Can you please elaborate on the pros and cons of investing in mutual funds tracking the Nifty 500? Arvind Alhuwalia, Chandigarh, Punjab Understanding Nifty 500…
