ETF
5 articles in this topic cluster.
ETF liquidity in India: why the spread matters more than the expense ratio
A five-basis-point expense ratio saves you ₹50 a year on ₹1 lakh. A one per cent round-trip spread costs you ₹1,000 on the way in and out. Investors obsess over the first number and ignore the second.
ETF vs mutual fund in India: which one, and when
A Nifty 50 ETF and a Nifty 50 index fund own the same fifty stocks. The choice between them is not about the index — it is about the buying mechanism, and that is where the real costs hide.
Gold, silver and debt ETFs: the non-equity shelf
Gold ETFs are where premium-to-NAV does the most damage, because people buy them for the same reason they run to a premium — everyone wants them on the same morning.
How to read an ETF page: NAV, price, and the premium trap
Every ETF carries two prices at once. Beginners read one of them. The gap between market price and NAV is where the avoidable losses in ETF investing actually happen.
Building a portfolio core with index ETFs
Most Indian portfolios are a collection of individually reasonable decisions that add up to an unreasonable whole. A core fixes that by deciding the shape first and the holdings second.