Passive investing is on the rise in India, as we saw in the previous issue’s article. Faced with constant underperformance to a given benchmark, the strategy of mimicking the same benchmark index or portfolio, rather than attempting to beat it, gained huge popularity in the developed markets. 

 

However, in the Indian context, the performance of traditional passive investment...

The Indian mutual fund (MF) industry manages over Rs10.40 lakh crore of equity assets across several scheme categories, including active and passively managed schemes. There has been a rapid growth in passive investments in the past couple of years. Are investors correct in shifting to passive schemes? Let’s look at the evidence, so far.

 

Active schemes are supervised by dedicated...