Why Dinesh Pangtey of LIC Mutual Fund is bullish on ETFs and index schemes

Index funds and ETFs are two passive avenues of investments. ETFs have been showing exponential growth over the past few years, thanks to big-ticket mandates from PF Trusts (EPFO). This is in line with the fact that a trend seen in the west, tends to get adopted in India with corporates aligned to it at the start and retail following thereafter. Corporates have already started pouring investments into passive funds. I believe soon we will see similar interest building up in retail space as well.

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