Imagine your enjoying your vacation traveling to different places around the world and your portfolio working for you. Welcome to the world of Index Funds.



Index funds are passive funds tracking a particular Index. In India, index funds popularly track Nifty, Nifty Next 50 and Sensex. Sensex in the last 20 years has given a return of +928%, but what makes Index funds high performer are their in-build feature of crunching portfolio. This feature help index to adding relevant companies in those periods and scrapping the worst performers.

We have earlier discussed whether Index Fund Investing way for Future ? and today in this post we will understand how to make the best use of Index Funds in different scenarios.
  1. Long Term Investor: If your a long term investor, Index funds are best for you! No tension of changing fund managers, the performance of the funds, fund ranking, paying advisors, etc. All you need to do is invest in your favourite index fund with the lowest TER and enjoy 😃
  2. Short Term Investor: Learn to understand the trend and invest in every fall in the market. If the market is in uptrend any fall is buying opportunity. In terms of India, currently, Demonetization and Surgical Strike were the best investment opportunity to invest in Index funds. 
  3. Tracking PE Ratio: If you are a market timer or a value investor like Warren Buffet who can wait for years without any transaction on the pile of cash - Price to Earnings (PE) investing is just for you. So your wait begins now 😉
  4. All-Weather Investing (AWI):  Index funds are best for All Weather Investing. Every asset has its time, Index funds help you to perfectly manage the equity portion of your portfolio. So now you to easily manage other asset singing - Apna Time Aayega 💪

Have you started investing in Index Funds yet? 


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