We are living in interesting times from the perspective of financial investments. It does not matter whether you are an old investor or a new investor – the fact of the matter is that it has never been easier to build a well-diversified portfolio which generates efficient risk-adjusted returns. Given the plethora of investment opportunities and avenues, there are multiple investment products with varying degrees of complexity and innovation, which suit varying risk profiles. Among these investment mediums, passive investment opportunities have been on the rise.
Passive funds are the funds which follow a “passive investment strategy”, which minimises the buying and selling of securities (also known as portfolio churn) and follows a long-term investment outlook of buy-and-hold. Passive funds believe in gradual wealth-creation and aim to avoid constant trading in the market. Passive funds also believe that it is quite expensive and difficult to out-perform the market, and hence, replicate sectors / indices / well-diversified portfolios.
Advantage of Passive Funds
In order to understand whether the passive investment approach is for you, it is important to know the advantages and benefits of investing in passive funds. The advantages of passive funds are:
The major disadvantage of passive funds is that they have no potential to out-perform the market as they are tracking the benchmark itself.
There are different types of passive funds which you can consider while creating a well-diversified investment portfolio.
The glamour of active investment has been under question for quite a while now. Globally, passive investment funds have been picking up steam as most of the active funds have failed to match / outperform their benchmarks. Passive investing in India has begun picking the pace as well, with different types of passive investment funds being available in the market. By virtue of being low-cost, simple investment vehicles, these passive investment funds have brought down the entry barriers to investing and are a source of stable risk-adjusted returns. With the various types of passive investment funds to suit various investor-needs, passive investing has become a viable source of wealth generation across the board.
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