Passive investing gains momentum, but is this trend here to stay?
During a recent panel discussion, financial leaders shared views on the pros and cons of the shift in investing from active to passive.
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During a recent panel discussion, financial leaders shared views on the pros and cons of the shift in investing from active to passive.
“As far as the mid and smallcaps are concerned, there is still a lot of stock picking expertise may be needed which can help investors. So while the largecap index funds are definitely going to outperform, in the case of mid and smallcaps, active funds may be a good choice.”
When you invest in a passive fund, you are taking direct exposure to index constituents in the same proportion as they are present in the index.
A fund manager is an investment expert responsible for managing the schemes investing strategy. Every scheme is managed by one or two fund managers, while in some cases where the scheme is huge or has more than one asset class, it would have more than 2 people.
Foreign funds continue to buy aggressively and concerns about the rupee weakness is not a talking point right now. Mid and small caps are in the thick of action and every rise is converting more fence-sitters among HNIs into faithfuls