Stocks markets are behaving quite unusually for the last 2-3 years. While the Sensex and the Nifty have been touching new all-time highs, the broader markets – especially small- and mid-cap stocks – are lagging behind. So, mutual fund (MF) investors are baffled, why their funds are not performing well or are giving negative returns despite the markets going up!
This is because a few top stocks, out of the 30 stocks in the Sensex and 50 stocks in the Nifty, are surprisingly going up, while the rest of the stocks are not performing well.
