Raghunadh Dasari’s Post

Q. “In gorw digest of 3rd octorber you said that fund manager do not decide which stock to buy, but in what proportions they are investing their money in those top 50 stocks?” A. We had written about index funds. This can be confusing. Let’s try to understand better. Active mutual funds These are mutual funds where a person and the team (fund managers) decide where to invest. They analyse stocks and decide which ones to buy, which ones to sell, and which to continue holding. They also decide the proportion of investment. Passive mutual funds These mutual funds are also called index funds. Index funds do not have a person making buy/sell decisions. They simply copy the stocks in an index. Example: an index fund that invests in the Nifty 50 will simply buy stocks that are part of the Nifty 50 index. Nifty 50 index = index made up of 50 of the biggest companies in India. The proportion of stocks is decided based on the size of the company. It is the same as the value of the company in Nifty 50. So, the index fund will invest more money in the biggest company, a little less in the second-biggest company, and so on.

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