As the Nifty crumbled by 7.61% on 16th March, Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) tracking it failed to keep up. Nippon India ETF Nifty BEES, one of the largest and oldest ETFs tracking the Index fell by just 2.23%. SBI ETF Nifty 50, which has assets under management of ₹64,464 crore, and is India’s largest equity mutual fund scheme, closed up instead of down. It closed with a gain of 1.16%. The tracking failure was not just limited to the Nifty. SBI Sensex ETF was down 3.61% even as the Sensex itself fell by 7.96%. Intra-day moves in the ETFs tracking India’s benchmark indices were also wildly out of sync with the underlying indices. This may have hurt retail investors trying to take advantage of the market correction.
An ETF is a passive mutual fund. Its aim is to simply give the same returns as the index it is tracking such as
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An ETF is a passive mutual fund. Its aim is to simply give the same returns as the index it is tracking such as
Read more at https://www.livemint.com/market/stock-market-news/index-etfs-fail-to-track-indices-as-market-makers-stay-away-11584382453748.html
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