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Everything Is Relative said Albert Einstein. In stock markets, this is done by way of Bench marking our performance against another Portfolio. In the United States, ETF assets have grown at a compounded rate of 25% in the past decade as investors have shifted big time from Active Funds to Passive driven by consistent under performance by Active funds against...
Aarti Krishnan of Prime Investor posted today an article titled “What are the Risks in Index Funds”. Basically she boils it down to They do not protect you from market volatility They may have concentrated portfolios They don’t shield you from business or governance risks They do not guarantee superior returns I believe that the above reasons aren’t in themselves...
There is this famous skin Doctor in Bangalore whose clinic is thronged by patients all-round the year. Being famous generally also means that one gets expensive but it ain’t so here, the Doctor Consultation fees is lower than what any other specialist anywhere shall charge. But there is a catch – you need to buy the ointment he prescribes at...
Till the establishment of the National Stock Exchange, anyone who wanted to buy shares approached brokers of the Regional Stock Exchanges who either bought the shares on their own exchange if it was traded or bought it on another exchange on which the stock got traded. There were two kinds of fees that brokers levied. One was the brokerage which...
Investing can be pretty simple and yet we assume simple isn’t good enough and keep searching for elegant solutions even if they are complex and have risks of an unknown nature. Free is discarded in favour of paid solutions even though the free ideas may have as much value as the paid ideas. We are a product of our beliefs...
Robo Advisory is picking up steam in India and yet I couldn’t find a list of the same. The rationale behind the list is to provide you with links of all active / yet to start Robo Advisors in India. The list will be updated as and when I come across new ventures. If you know of any one I...
While passive investing is yet to pick up in India, almost all Mutual funds offer a choice of Index funds which try to track returns generated by Nifty / Sensex. But when one does go the passive way, should one invest in Index funds or with Exchange Traded Funds is the key question. The answer as the following graphic shows...
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