Articles tagged “Passive Investing”

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  • Exchange-traded funds (ETFs) in India

    Exchange-traded funds in India are mutual fund schemes whose units trade on stock exchanges. Covers the structure, the creation-redemption and Authorised …

  • Large-cap fund vs index fund in India

    Active large-cap funds vs Nifty 50, Nifty 100 and Sensex index funds: SPIVA India 2024 underperformance data, the TER gap and the SEBI large-cap definition.

  • How Zerodha AMC differs from regular AMCs

    Zerodha Fund House is a passive-only AMC. Differs from regular AMCs in cost structure, product range, and distribution model.

  • Zerodha AMC philosophy: passive-only

    Zerodha Fund House's mandate is passive-only: index funds, ETFs, and FoFs. The reasoning behind avoiding actively-managed schemes.

  • How to select an index mutual fund

    Step-by-step playbook for selecting an index mutual fund. Covers expense ratio comparison, tracking error, index choice (Nifty 50, Nifty Next 50, Nifty 100, …

  • Passive investing wave in India

    The passive investing wave in India has seen passive funds (index funds, ETFs) grow from negligible AUM in 2015 to over 15% of industry AUM by 2025. Covers the …

  • Index fund vs ETF in India

    Index funds and ETFs are both passive mutual fund products tracking benchmark indices, but differ in holding mode (folio vs demat), trading mechanics (NAV vs …

  • Passive investing wave in India

    Encyclopedic reference on the post-2018 structural shift toward index funds and ETFs in India: pre-history from 2002 Benchmark Nifty BeES, the 2015 EPFO …

  • Active equity vs passive equity investing in India

    A factual comparison of actively managed equity mutual funds and passive index funds/ETFs in India, covering cost, alpha generation, SPIVA data, market …

  • EPFO and the Equity ETF Channel

    How the Employees' Provident Fund Organisation became a dominant institutional investor in Indian equity ETFs, its mandate evolution from 2015 to 2025, …

  • Equity ETF in India

    Encyclopedic reference on equity exchange-traded funds (ETFs) in India: SEBI definition, creation-redemption mechanism, tracking error, NSE/BSE listing, …

  • How to invest in an index fund via Coin

    Step-by-step guide to investing in index mutual funds on Zerodha Coin: index fund vs. ETF, selecting a benchmark, tracking error, lump-sum and SIP modes, and …

  • Nifty BeES, India's first exchange-traded fund (2001)

    Nifty BeES, launched by Benchmark Mutual Fund on 28 December 2001, was India's first exchange-traded fund and the first ETF in Asia to track a broad equity …

  • Tracking difference in index funds

    Tracking difference is the gap between an index fund's cumulative return and the return of its benchmark total return index over a given period. Unlike tracking …

  • Tracking error in index funds

    Tracking error measures how closely an index fund or ETF replicates the return of its benchmark index. It is the annualised standard deviation of the daily …

  • UTI Master Index Fund (1998), India's first index fund

    UTI Master Index Fund, launched in 1998, was the first passive index-tracking mutual fund in India, predating the Nifty BeES ETF by three years and establishing …

  • Zerodha Fund House

    Zerodha Fund House is the mutual fund brand of Zerodha AMC, offering low-cost passive index funds and debt schemes distributed through the Coin platform.